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Rescue crews saved a 10-day-old baby and his mother trapped in the ruins of a building in Turkey on Friday and dug several people out from other sites as President Tayyip Erdogan said authorities should have reacted faster to this week's huge earthquake.

The protest comes in response to the ban on neonicotinoid insecticides for sugar beets.

"It is likely a digital pound will be needed in the future,” said Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey and Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt.

Russia is concerned by attempts to silently wind down the investigation into last year’s explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has said.

Molnupiravir, the oral pill for COVID-19, may actually be driving the emergence of new, potentially harmful, variants of the virus, according to a Wellcome Trust-funded study at the pre-print stage.

United States officials believe the Chinese balloon was affiliated with a military-aerial surveillance program that monitored at least 40 countries.

"The issue was not whether to do the mission, but how to get it done with no overt clue as to who was responsible," Hersh stated.

The figure signifies a rise from $500 million in annual profits from human trafficking in 2015, a 2,540% increase.

The US House of Representatives is expected to pass a resolution blaming China for a "brazen violation of United States sovereignty" and accusing it of trying to "deceive the international community through false claims about its intelligence collection campaigns."

Pentagon asserts balloon seen in US last week was military craft, not civilian weather balloon as claimed by China.