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• Biden says ‘everybody’ should be concerned about monkeypox outbreak May 22, 2022
  SEOUL (Reuters) – The monkeypox outbreak is something “everybody should be concerned about,” U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday, adding that U.S. health officials are looking into possible treatments and vaccines. “We’re working on it hard to figure out what we do,” Biden told reporters at an air base in South Korea before departing […]
• Pacific leaders congratulate Labor’s Albanese on election result May 22, 2022
  SYDNEY (Reuters) – The Solomon Islands has congratulated Australia’s Labor leader, Anthony Albanese, on his election victory, saying much “remains to be done” in the bilateral relationship, as Pacific islands neighbour Fiji welcomed the party’s climate policies. Albanese said he would be sworn in as the 31st prime minister on Monday along with four senior […]
• Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now May 22, 2022
  (Reuters) – Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or concessions to Moscow while Russia intensified an offensive in the eastern Donbas region and stopped providing gas to Finland, as Polish President Andrzej Duda prepared to address the Ukrainian parliament on Sunday. FIGHTING * The Russian military said it had destroyed a major consignment of Western arms […]