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Meeting comes two days after Witkoff and Jared Kushner held five hours of talks with Vladimir Putin in MoscowAnalysis: the Ukraine peace deal has stumbled yet again over an inevitable obstacle: PutinThe US special envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Ukraine’s national security council chief, Rustem Umerov, in Miami on Thursday, as Washington steps up its diplomatic push to secure a pathway to peace in Ukraine.Witkoff, accompanied by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, spent nearly five hours in talks with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Tuesday. Moscow later said the meeting had not brought the sides any closer to a

Experts say any change to the hepatitis B schedule could have significant and far-reaching consequencesRobert F Kennedy Jr’s vaccine advisory committee convenes on Thursday to consider a reversal of a decades-long program of childhood immunizations, including a recommendation to delay hepatitis B shots for newborn babies.For decades, federal health recommendations have suggested that all newborns be vaccinated against the virus that can lead to serious liver disease. Kennedy, the US health secretary and a prominent anti-vaccine activist, has long pushed for delaying the shot. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/rfk-jr-hepatitis-b-vaccine Author : Guardian Staff Publish date : 2025-12-04 11:00:00 Copyright

Plan to improve gas networks and rewire electricity systems across Great Britain likely to add £30 to average annual billEnergy companies have been given the green light to spend £28bn on Great Britain’s gas and electricity grids, raising fears of higher household bills.The energy watchdog, Ofgem, approved more than £17.8bn of spending plans to upgrade gas transmission and distribution networks in the five years from 2026. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/dec/04/fears-of-higher-energy-bills-as-28bn-grid-upgrade-gets-go-ahead Author : Jillian Ambrose Publish date : 2025-12-04 08:15:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.