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☆ Lithuania is the world's happiest place for under 30s, but it's also Europe's suicide capital
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Joshua Nelken-Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewDomantas Katelė, an official in Lithuania's Ministry of Social Security and Labour, is widely known as his country's "Gen Z" minister. AdvertisementThe World Happiness Report backs up his claim, ranking Lithuania as the happiest place in the world for those under 30 earlier this year. AdvertisementIt seems paradoxical: How can a country be great for young people while also being Europe's suicide capital? Užupis, a small district alongside the Vilnia River, is popular with Vilnius' young, bohemian crowd. AdvertisementDomantas Katelė is often referred to as the "Gen Z" minister.

Persons: —, Z, it's, Joshua Nelken, Zers, Adriana Doroškevičiūtė, Richard Bogu, It's, Bogu, Antanas Grižas Organizations: Service, Lithuania's Ministry of Social Security, Labour, Business, Union, Lithuania, European Union, Data, BI, Soviet Bloc Locations: Lithuania, Vilnius, Soviet Union, Europe, Old, Užupis, Soviet

☆ ‘Eventually, one gets used to anything:’ How Ukrainians have learned to live with war
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Dnipro, Ukraine CNN —The residential block in Dnipro looked like someone had taken a huge bite out of it. Their presence was a sign of how Ukrainians have become used to the realities of living through a war. Tsyplionkova said she considered leaving Dnipro after the war started but found she simply couldn’t go: this is her city. Lydmila Lashko, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional organization of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society, says two years of war have forced Ukrainians to get used to its brutal realities. “But eventually one gets used to everything.”Some 4.8 million Ukrainians are officially registered as internally displaced people, according to data from Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy.

Persons: Yevhenia Tsyplionkova, Tsyplionkova, “, Ivana Kottasová, CNN Tsyplionkova, ”, Lydmila Lashko, ” Lashko, Lashko, They’ve, Zhanna Vedmedieva, ” Vedmedieva, Volodymyr Zelensky, Oleksandr Savchenko, Ivana Kottasova, Yulia Murashkina, Murashkina, Ihor Omelchenko, wasn’t, Omelchenko, ” Omelchenko, Vedmedieva Organizations: Ukraine CNN, Russian, Ukrainian Railways, CNN, Ukrainian Red Cross Society, Dnipro, Ukraine’s Ministry of Social, Donetsk People’s, United Nations Human Rights Locations: Dnipro, Ukraine, Iranian, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian, Demydiv, Kyiv, Donetsk, Kreminna, Severodonetsk, Luhansk, Russia, Russian, Dmytrivka, Novomykhailivka, Donetsk People’s Republic, Mariinka, France, Havriushyna

☆ As tentative truce holds, search for shelter continues for more than a million Gazans
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Prasanta Kumar Dutta | Mariano Zafra | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

*Figures for Gaza City and North Gaza have not been updated after Oct. 12 due to lack of communication. A map shows UNRWA schools and hospitals and clinics in and around the Khan Younis camp. A satellite image shows several U.N.-run schools and places where people are seeking shelter in the streets around Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. On average, 160 people sheltering in UNRWA schools share a single toilet. A map shows UNRWA schools and hospitals and clinics in and around the refugee camp in Rafah.

Persons: —, Khan Younis, Saleh Salem, Israel Organizations: —, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, Gaza’s Health Ministry, UNRWA, Ministry of Social Development, Hamas, United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency, Nasser Hospital, Technologies, World Health Organization Locations: Israel, Gaza, U.N, Gaza City, North Gaza, uproot, Nasser, Khan, Rafah, Egypt

☆ Flooding From Cyclone in Southern Brazil Kills at Least 22
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( John Yoon | More About John Yoon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A cyclone battered southern Brazil early this week, killing at least 22 people, displacing 3,000 others and prompting the federal government to dispatch helicopters for rescues, the authorities said late Tuesday. Since Sunday, the storm has brought strong winds and floods to the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, submerging dozens of towns, according to the Ministry of Social Development. More rainfall was on the way, and some areas could get more than 11 inches of rain this week, Brazil’s National Institute of Meteorology said. Authorities also warned of further flooding near three rivers in the region. The storm, which forecasters described as an extratropical cyclone, also spawned a tornado and winds exceeding 62 miles per hour in Santa Catarina, the state’s Civil Defense said on Tuesday.

Organizations: Ministry of Social, Brazil’s National Institute of Meteorology, Authorities, state’s Civil Defense Locations: Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina

☆ Norway, Finland battle rapid spread of bird flu
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Louise Rasmussen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] People wearing protective suits collect dead birds, as there is a major outbreak of bird flu, in Vadso municipality in Finnmark in Norway, July 20,2023. Oyvind Zahl Arntzen/NTB/via REUTERS/File PhotoCOPENHAGEN, July 28 (Reuters) - Norway and Finland face record outbreaks of bird flu this year which have killed thousands of seagulls and other species, put livestock at risk and restricted travel in some areas, officials said. Avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has circulated throughout Europe in recent years, leading to a cull in May and June of millions of birds on French farms alone and affecting the supply of poultry meat and eggs. The H5N1 virus strain has spread among poultry and wild birds for years but there have been sporadic outbreaks reported globally in mammals such as cats, mink and otters. Neighbouring Finland also said wild birds were heavily affected and that the H5N1 strain has now been found in 20 fur farms, up from 12 earlier this week.

Persons: Oyvind Zahl, Ole, Herman Tronerud, Louise Breusch Rasmussen, Terje Solsvik, Toby Chopra Organizations: Norwegian Food Safety Authority, Norwegian Food, World Health, Thomson Locations: Vadso, Finnmark, Norway, COPENHAGEN, Finland, Europe, Norway's Finnmark, Norwegian

☆ Sudan: 280 children evacuated from Khartoum orphanage amid intense fighting
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Mostafa Salem | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Two hundred and eighty children between the ages of one month and 15 years were evacuated from a Khartoum orphanage that was affected by the heavy combat in Sudan’s capital, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said. The children from the Mygoma Orphanage in Khartoum have had no access to proper healthcare since fighting broke out on April 15 in Sudan. They were evacuated to the south of Khartoum in an operation facilitated by the ICRC on Wednesday. The ICRC said it obtained security guarantees from warring parties to ensure the safe passage for the children and the orphanage staff. Almost 14 million children are in urgent need of lifesaving humanitarian support in Sudan, the highest number ever recorded in the country, UNICEF said.

Persons: Cross, “, Christophe Sandoz Organizations: CNN, International Committee, ICRC, Reuters, Sudanese, UNICEF, International Organization for Migration, UN Office, Humanitarian Affairs Locations: Khartoum, Sudan, Sudan Jean

☆ Special Report: Dozens of babies die in orphanage as Sudan war takes grim toll on Khartoum
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Maggie Michael | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +13 min

[1/7] A view from inside an orphanage in Khartoum, Sudan, in this handout image released April 20, 2023. There was no one there,” said Abdullah, speaking by phone from the orphanage, the cries of wailing babies audible in the background. Frini and the director of the orphanage, Zeinab Jouda, referred questions about the total death toll to Abdullah, Mygoma’s medical chief. ABANDONED CHILDRENOfficially called The Orphan's Care Centre, Mygoma, the orphanage is housed in a three-storey building in central Khartoum. She said that a day earlier, two babies who died were instead buried in a city square close to the orphanage.

[1/7] FILE PHOTO-Dmytro Zilko, a soldier and a patient of the clinic exercises on a new prosthesis with rehabilitation specialist Maria in a prosthetics clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 9, 2023. "Unfortunately, the number of patients has increased significantly," said Andrii Ovcharenko, who works with a team of medics and technicians at the "Without Limits" prosthetics clinic, one of almost 80 now operating in Ukraine. On a recent morning, Ovcharenko's Kyiv clinic assessed two soldiers for artificial legs and adjusted the new limb of a third. U.S. Army General Mark Milley estimated in November at least 100,000 Russian military casualties - killed or wounded, with "probably" the same for Ukraine. It plans to expand, depending on how the war unfolds but is not sure where to open new clinics.

☆ Finland to allow gender reassignment without sterilisation
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

COPENHAGEN, March 3 (Reuters) - Finland will allow transgender people to change their legal gender at their own request and without undergoing sterilisation, new legislation signed by the Finnish President confirmed on Friday. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2017 that requiring sterilisation in order for individuals to change the sex on their birth certificate is a violation of human rights. Medical examinations and sterilization will no longer be required to legally change one's gender, it added. On Friday, Finnish President Sauli Niinisto ratified the new legislation which is will enter into force on April 3. The Czech Republic, Latvia, and Romania currently require individuals to undergo sterilization before legally changing their gender, according to Transgender Europe (TGEU).

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