By Humeyra Pamuk
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Among the scores of offices the U.S. State Department eliminated last week in its dramatic revamp, the shuttering of one little-known office has raised particular alarm among U.S. diplomats.
The small team at the Department's Office of Casualty Assistance, which supports U.S. diplomats and their families abroad in the event of death or serious injury, received termination notices last Friday along with... (continue reading...)
CHICAGO (Reuters) -A group of Democratic attorneys general said Thursday they have sued to block the implementation of a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rule set to go into effect next month that they say could lead to nearly 2 million people losing their health insurance.
(Reporting by Diana Novak Jones, Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi)
By Sabine Siebold
WIESBADEN, Germany (Reuters) -Ukraine will let foreign arms companies test out their latest weapons on the front line of its war against Russia's invasion, Kyiv's state-backed arms investment and procurement group Brave1 said on Thursday.
Under the "Test in Ukraine" scheme, companies would send their products to Ukraine, give some online training on how to use them, then wait for Ukrainian forces to try them out and send... (continue reading...)
LONDON (Reuters) -British police said on Thursday an unspecified number of casualties had been taken to hospital after a collision involving a bus carrying school children in Somerset, southwest England.
Avon and Somerset Police said the bus was carrying 60-70 people and was heading to Minehead Middle School at the time of the crash, and that the "large majority" of passengers had been taken to a nearby rest centre.
Police declared the... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) -The New York State Public Service Commission has terminated its offshore wind transmission planning process due to stalled federal permitting, to protect state ratepayers from premature infrastructure costs, it said on Thursday.
This halts the Public Policy Transmission Need (PPTN) process of seeking proposals to deliver up to 8 gigawatts of offshore wind power into New York City by 2033.
The commission cited recent federal actions... (continue reading...)
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