France culls over 600 000 poultry in new bird flu outbreak

France has culled 600 000 to 650 000 chickens, ducks and other poultry over the past month, officials said Friday, in a race to contain a bird flu virus threatening to become the fourth major outbreak in the country since 2015.
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Namibia suspends poultry from Germany, Netherlands after bird flu outbreak

Namibia suspended imports of live poultry, birds and poultry products from Germany and the Netherlands on Monday after outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu in the European countries.
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UK to offer 10 500 post-Brexit visas to counter growing worker crisis

Britain will issue up to 10 500 temporary work visas to lorry drivers and poultry workers to ease chronic staff shortages, the government announced Saturday, in a U-turn on post-Brexit immigration policy.
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