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Four of 40 infants in the newborn-care unit of a government hospital died in central India when a fire swept through the unit late on Monday, government officials said, the latest in a string of hospital fires in the country this year that have killed dozens. The other newborns at Kamla Nehru Hospital in Madhya Pradesh state, many of them underweight, have been shifted to other wards, state Medical Education Minister Vishvas Kailash Sarang told reporters after the fire was brought under control.

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Rolls-Royce has been backed by a consortium of private investors and the UK government to develop small nuclear reactors to generate cleaner energy. The creation of the Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor (SMR) business was announced following a £195m cash injection from private firms and a £210m grant from the government.

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Ole Gunnar Solskjær expects to be in charge of Manchester United for the next match at Watford after the international break, with the club as of Sunday not changing its position despite the 2-0 loss to Manchester City. After City’s win, Solskjær said United had to react like a “wounded animal” at Watford on 20 November. The 48-year-old is working on the basis that he will remain in his post to take the side to Vicarage Road but there is a sense that Glazer could yet decide to remove him in the coming days.

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The report on Sunday by the WAM news agency said Abu Dhabi would create a new court to handle these cases, which will be held in Arabic and English to be better understood by the emirate’s vast foreign worker population. Change in child custody will allow parents to share joint custody of their children, WAM reported.

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A French court has recognised “turbine syndrome” after a couple complained their health was damaged by living near a windfarm. In what is believed to be the first judgment of its kind in France, Belgians Christel and Luc Fockaert were awarded more than €100,000 in compensation by the judge in Toulouse after experiencing windfarm-related health problems.

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A police official was injured after being stabbed with a knife in Cannes, southern France, and his assailant has been "neutralised", said French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin on Monday. The attack in Cannes comes as worries over violent crime and terrorism feature among voters' main concerns in the run-up to the 2022 French presidential election.

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The dress worn by Amy Winehouse during her final stage performance has sold for more than $243,000 (£180,000) at an auction of items from her estate. The singer-songwriter wore the halter minidress in Belgrade in June 2011, a month before her death aged 27. It sold for 16 times its original estimate. More than $4m (£3m) was raised from about 800 items. Many of the items at the Julien's Auctions sale in Los Angeles shattered their pre-auction estimates.

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A German humanitarian ship with more than 800 rescued migrants, including 15 very young children, steamed into a Sicilian port on Sunday after being granted permission by Italian authorities following days of waiting in the Mediterranean Sea. The charity group Sea-Eye said the vessel Sea-Eye 4 was assigned to the port of Trapani, in western Sicily, on Saturday evening.

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World number one Novak Djokovic won a sixth Paris title and record 37th Masters crown on Sunday, beating 2020 champion Daniil Medvedev 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the final.

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As cases surged last winter in the U.K., vets saw an uptick in myocarditis cases in pets.
“These were dogs and cats that were depressed, lethargic, they lost appetite,” said Ferasin, a veterinary cardiologist at The Ralph Veterinary Referral Centre in Buckinghamshire, England. “And they had either difficulty breathing because of accumulation of fluid in their lungs due to the heart disease, or they were fainting because of an underlying abnormal heart rhythm.”

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Atletico Madrid conceded in the 92nd and 96th minutes on Sunday to surrender a two-goal lead and draw 3-3 away at Valencia in La Liga.

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Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has said he escaped unhurt after a drone attack on his home inside Baghdad's high-security Green Zone. A drone laden with explosives struck the building, injuring six of his bodyguards in an apparent assassination attempt, officials said.

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Julian Assange and his fiancee, Stella Moris, say they are being prevented from getting married and are preparing legal action against Dominic Raab and the governor of Belmarsh prison. They say they have had no response to repeated requests seeking agreement that a ceremony can take place at the prison.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is asking on Twitter whether he should sell 10 percent of his stock in the electric vehicle company amid pressure in Washington to increase taxes on billionaires like him. Some Democrats have been pushing for billionaires to pay taxes when the price of the stocks they hold goes up, even if they do not sell any shares. It is a concept called “unrealised gains,” and Musk is sitting on a lot of them with a net worth of roughly $300bn.

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Fire tore through a hospital in western India on Saturday killing at least 11 coronavirus patients, officials said. There were about two dozen patients at the intensive care unit in the hospital in Ahmadnagar district, Maharashtra state, when the fire broke out, officials said. Most of the dead were aged over 60.

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Archaeologists have uncovered a room at a villa just outside Pompeii containing beds and other objects that shed light on the living conditions of slaves in the ancient Roman city buried by a volcanic eruption. The room, in an excellent state of preservation, contains three wooden beds and a series of other objects including amphorae, ceramic pitchers and a chamber pot.

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Germany on Friday returned a collection of ancient Mayan artefacts to Guatemala and Mexico after police found them stashed in the cellar of a farmhouse in Saxony-Anhalt state last year. The 13 objects include vases, figurines and plates and date back to between 250 and 850 CE, the regional government of Saxony-Anhalt said.

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Actor George Clooney has issued an open letter asking media outlets not to publish photos that show his children's faces. The star says such images put his two children in danger, particularly due to his wife's line of work. Amal Clooney is a human rights lawyer who, the actor notes in his letter, puts terrorist groups on trial. The actor said he and his wife are not on social media and are protective of their children's privacy.

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