Uganda captures bomb expert of Islamic State-allied rebel group
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's military has captured a commander of an Islamic State-allied rebel group who is an expert in making improvised explosive devices, or bombs, that the group has used to carry out deadly attacks in the past, the army said ...
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Russia says Ukraine struck Crimea with ATACMS, 60 drones shot down, oil refinery halted
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian officials said on Sunday that Ukraine fired nine U.S. ATACMS at Crimea and attacked Russian regions with at least 60 drones in a major attack which forced one oil refinery in southern Russia to halt operations. Russian ai...
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Britain's Shapps says stronger China-Russia ties threaten democracy
LONDON (Reuters) - British defence minister Grant Shapps said on Sunday he was very concerned about a recent strengthening of diplomatic relations between China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin, saying it posed a threat to democracy. "I'm ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's life and legal battles
LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will learn on Monday whether he has lost his long-running legal battle in the English courts to prevent his extradition from Britain to the United States to face criminal charges, nearly all under...
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Factbox-Foreign dignitaries attending Taiwan president inauguration
(Reuters) - Lai Ching-te is inaugurated as Taiwan's new president on Monday. Following is a list of some of the foreign leaders and dignitaries attending the ceremony. UNITED STATES Former White House economic adviser Brian Deese, one-time State De...
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Myanmar rebel group claims control of town, denies targeting Rohingya
(Reuters) - A powerful armed ethnic group in Myanmar said on Sunday it had won control over a town in the western state of Rakhine after weeks of fighting, denying accusations it had targeted members of the Muslim-minority Rohingya during the offen...
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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange faces U.S. extradition judgment day
By Michael Holden and Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) - A British court could give a final decision on Monday on whether WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States over the mass leak of secret U.S. documents, the culmina...
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Ukraine destroys all 37 drones launched by Russia overnight, air force says
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's forces have destroyed all of 37 attack drones launched by Russia overnight, Ukraine's Air Force chief said on Sunday. "As a result of the anti-aircraft battle, all 37 'Shaheds' were shot down in Kyiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Sum...
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Saudi king to undergo tests due to high fever, state news agency says
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz will undergo medical tests on Sunday due to "high temperature and joint pain", state news agency SPA reported. The examinations will be conducted at the royal clinics at Al Salam Palace in ...
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Tourist couple injured in militant shooting in India's Kashmir amid elections
By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - A tourist couple was injured in India's Kashmir after militants fired on them late on Saturday night, police said, ahead of voting scheduled in the volatile region for India's ongoing election. The coupl...
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Incoming Taiwan president courts diplomatic allies with shrimp fishing
By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) - President-elect Lai Ching-te took leaders from some of Taiwan's handful of remaining diplomatic allies shrimping on Sunday, the day before he takes office and has to deal with China which believes the island has ...
May 19, 2024
Saudi crown prince meets White House national security adviser
CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan in the Saudi city of Dhahran, the Saudi state news agency reported on Sunday. (Reporting by Muhammad Al Gebaly; Editing by Willia...
May 19, 2024
Northern Ireland minister Heaton-Harris will not stand for re-election as MP
(Reuters) - Britain's minister for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harris, will not stand for re-election to parliament, he said in a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday. Heaton-Harris asked Sunak to let him remain secretary of state fo...
May 19, 2024
Irish business tycoon and rugby record breaker Tony O'Reilly dies at 88
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Tony O'Reilly, the Irish media tycoon and former H.J. Heinz Co boss who first rose to prominence as a record breaking British and Irish Lions rugby player, died on Saturday at the age of 88. For decades one of I...
May 18, 2024
Tunisia recovers bodies of four migrants off its coast, rescues dozens
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia recovered the bodies of four migrants off the country's coast on Saturday, the national guard said, amid an increase in migrant boats heading from Tunisia toward Italy in recent weeks. The force said the coast guard separa...
May 18, 2024
Iran to send experts to ally Venezuela to help with medical accelerators
CARACAS (Reuters) - Iran on Saturday said it will send experts to its ally Venezuela to help with medical accelerators in hospitals it said had been stopped due to Western sanctions. Venezuela requested Iran's help, according to a message on the so...
May 18, 2024
Despite polls, Biden aides insist Gaza campus protests will not hurt reelection bid
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several top White House aides say they are confident protests across U.S. college campuses against Israel's offensive in Gaza will not translate into significantly fewer votes for Joe Biden in November's elect...
May 18, 2024
South Africa's new MK party seeks majority win in pivotal election, Zuma says
By Anait Miridzhanian and Sfundo Parakozov JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's new uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party is aiming to win a parliamentary majority in a May 29 election so that it can implement reforms without resistance from opponents, ...
May 18, 2024
Britain's Conservatives trail Labour by 18 points, says Opinium poll
LONDON (Reuters) - The opposition Labour Party's lead over British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's governing Conservative Party has increased to 18 points, according to an opinion poll published on Saturday. A national election is expected later this ...
May 18, 2024
Venezuela opposition candidate says he will guarantee political freedom
By Vivian Sequera LA VICTORIA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez said on Saturday he will ensure all political parties are free to operate if he unseats President Nicolas Maduro in a July vote, and he urged the ...
May 18, 2024
Italian police seize 134 Fiat cars in flag dispute
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian fiscal police seized more than 130 Fiat cars imported from Morocco this week on the grounds that a sticker with the colours of the Italian flag on their doors could give a false indication of their origin, a spokesman for ...
May 18, 2024
Ukraine investigates civilian injuries, battles rage in Kharkiv region
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian prosecutors said they were investigating attacks on civilians in two cities in the northeastern region of Kharkiv and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reported successes by troops fighting a fresh Russian assault there on Sa...
May 18, 2024
Israel's Gantz demand Gaza day-after plan by June 8, threatens to quit Netanyahu cabinet
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz demanded on Saturday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commit to an agreed vision for the Gaza conflict that would include stipulating who might rule the territory after the war wi...
May 18, 2024
Israeli military says it recovered another slain hostage from Gaza
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli military said on Saturday that its forces operating in the Gaza Strip recovered the body of Ron Binyamin, who was among 252 people seized by Hamas-led Palestinian gunmen in a cross-border Oct. 7 rampage that trigge...
May 18, 2024
One killed, six injured in clashes in western Libyan city, TV channel says
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - At least one person was killed and six injured when fierce clashes broke out on Saturday in the city of Zawiya in western Libya, prompting calls for a ceasefire to rescue families trapped in the conflict area, a Libyan TV channe...
May 18, 2024