Syria shoots down Israeli missiles fired from Golan Heights towards Damascus outskirts
By Tala Ramadan DUBAI (Reuters) - Syrian air defences on Thursday shot down Israeli missiles fired from the Golan Heights towards Damascus' outskirts targeting a building in the countryside, Syria's defence ministry said. Israel has been carrying o...
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China's Xi Jinping in Hungary to discuss Ukraine, infrastructure
By Anita Komuves BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping is due to meet Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Thursday, with the war in Ukraine and infrastructure projects high on the agenda, as he makes his third stop on his first Eur...
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India's Modi skips election in Kashmir as critics dispute integration claims
By Krishn Kaushik and Fayaz Bukhari ANANTNAG, India (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi is criss-crossing India in a marathon election campaign but, for the first time since 1996, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is not contesting in Kashmir,...
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Ukrainian drones strike Russian fuel depot, officials say
(Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire and damaged several storage tanks at a fuel depot in Russia's Krasnodar region, the region's crisis administration said on Thursday. About six drones were destroyed and debris fell on the refinery...
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South Korea's Yoon: efforts to improve people's lives had fallen short
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Thursday his government's efforts to improve people's lives had fallen short, as he held a rare news conference to mark his first two years in office. Yoon also said a new government mi...
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US warns Israel that Rafah invasion will jeopardise weapons supply as assault continues
By Jarrett Renshaw, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Mohammad Salem WASHINGTON/CAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden for the first time publicly vowed to withhold weapons from Israel if its forces make a major invasion of Rafah in south...
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Exclusive-Panama's president-elect vows to help fix canal water problems, build major train line
By Valentine Hilaire and Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama's president-elect, Jose Raul Mulino, said on Wednesday he will urge lawmakers to approve a law enabling the Panama Canal to build large water reservoirs in the face of an unpreced...
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US sends warship through Taiwan Strait ahead of presidential inauguration
TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) -A U.S. warship sailed through the narrow Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, less than two weeks before Taiwan's new president takes office, prompting an angry denunciation from Beijing. China claims sovereignty over democratically go...
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Former Fiji PM Bainimarama sentenced to year in jail, media report
(Reuters) - Fiji's former long-serving prime minister Frank Bainimarama was on Thursday sentenced to a year in prison for perverting the course of justice, local media reported. Bainimarama was initially spared jail in the case during sentencing la...
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UK refuses to sign global vaccine treaty, The Telegraph reports
(Reuters) - Britain is refusing to sign the World Health Organization's pandemic accord because the country says it would have to give away a fifth of its vaccines, the Telegraph reported on Wednesday. Britain will only agree to a legally binding g...
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Biden says US will withhold weapons from Israel if it invades Rafah
(Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday publicly warned Israel for the first time that the U.S. would stop supplying it weapons if Israeli forces make a major invasion of Rafah, a city in southern Gaza. "I made it clear that if they go into Ra...
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Germany's Scholz says weakening EU would be self-destructive
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday denounced calls to weaken the role of the European Union as self-destructive and irresponsible, speaking ahead of EU parliamentary elections in June. In a video message posted on the g...
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Advancing in Ukraine, Russia to mark victory in World War Two
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday marks the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two as relations with the West spiral deeper into crisis over the advance of Russian troops against Ukraine's Western-backed ...
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Baseball star Ohtani's ex-interpreter agrees to plead guilty to federal charges
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Japanese baseball great Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges he illegally transferred nearly $17 million from the athlete's bank account, without Ohtani's knowledge, to pay off his own ...
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Mexico heat wave triggers 'exceptional' power outages, president says
By David Alire Garcia and Adriana Barrera MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Widespread recent power outages in Mexico were caused by unseasonably hot weather, the country's president said on Wednesday, assuring consumers that the national grid has sufficient...
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Ghana's top court postpones hearing on challenge to anti-LGBTQ bill
ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's Supreme Court said on Wednesday that lawyers battling over the legality of one of Africa's most restrictive anti-LGBTQ bill must amend their motions due to insulting language in their submissions and then postponed the cas...
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US paused Israel weapons shipment due to Rafah: US defense secretary
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's decision to hold up delivery of high payload munitions to Israel was taken over a possible Israeli offensive in Rafah that Washington believes could put Palestinian civili...
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Prince Harry appears, alone, for UK Invictus Games service
LONDON (Reuters) - Prince Harry made a rare public appearance in Britain on Wednesday when he attended a service of thanksgiving to mark the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games, with the strained relationship with his family dominating attention...
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Reaction to US decision to pause weapons shipment to Israel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers reacted to President Joe Biden's decision to suspend delivery of certain munitions to Israel that appeared to be a possible shift in U.S. policy, although the Pentagon said the move was not final. SENATE REPUBL...
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Biden set to tighten asylum access at U.S.-Mexico border - sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration is set to tighten access to asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border via a new regulation that could be issued at soon as Thursday, three sources familiar with the matter said, in a move aimed at reducing ill...
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Four UK editors named in Prince Harry's phone-hacking lawsuit against Daily Mail
By Sam Tobin and Michael Holden LONDON(Reuters) - Four current British newspaper editors and a string of other senior press figures have been named in a privacy lawsuit brought by Prince Harry and other public figures against the publisher of the D...
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Spain's ex-soccer chief Rubiales to stand trial for kissing player
MADRID (Reuters) -Former Spanish soccer federation chief Luis Rubiales will stand trial for his unsolicited kiss of national team player Jenni Hermoso after a High Court judge admitted the case, the court said on Wednesday. Rubiales faces one count of ...
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Colombia National Electoral Council magistrates urge investigation into Petro campaign
By Luis Jaime Acosta and Carlos Vargas BOGOTA (Reuters) - Two out of nine magistrates in Colombia's National Electoral Council (CNE) have requested an investigation be opened into Colombian President Gustavo Petro's 2022 campaign over alleged spend...
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Migrant charity defies Italy over surveillance plane restrictions
ROME (Reuters) - A German rescue charity on Wednesday launched a fresh aerial surveillance mission from Italy to track down migrant boats in difficulty in the central Mediterranean, defying restrictions by Italian authorities. The Italian Civil Avi...
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Billionaires Ambani and Adani dragged into India's election rhetoric
By Shivam Patel NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and election rival Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi traded barbs about campaign funding on Wednesday, with both sides accusing the other of taking money from top industrial...
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