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Serbia’s student-founded opposition list has won an outright parliamentary majority, according to the latest reported election figures, ending 14 years of Serbian Progressive Party rule. Independent monitors project that it could form a government without coalition partners, although counting remains incomplete and its governing performance is unproven.
Source: Balkan Insight
Read the original story →The World Food Programme reports delivering more than 744,000 hot meals in 60 treatment and isolation facilities and over 3,000 metric tons of food to patients’ families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. That assistance supports people through care and helps families follow health guidance without hunger forcing them to take additional risks.
Source: wfp.org
Read the original story →Kenya has released the first 20 contacts of its imported Ebola case after they completed 21 days of monitoring without developing symptoms. Health officials said they could safely rejoin their families, while 98 other contacts remained in quarantine and the outbreak response continued.
Source: Capital FM News
Read the original story →Tuvalu’s first export of recycled PET flake is part of a 37-tonne shipment of recovered beverage-container materials purchased for AUD 76,721.64. Alongside Fiji’s recovery of more than 17.7 million containers, it shows Pacific collection programmes connecting discarded materials to paying recycling markets.
Source: Islands Business
Read the original story →King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh announced that terminals 1 and 2 had resumed domestic and international operations after strike-related disruption. The reopening restores travel services, although continuing missile and drone attacks mean it does not signal improved security.
Source: financialexpress.com
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