Spain escalates diplomatic rebuke to Argentina's Milei
By Inti Landauro MADRID (Reuters) - Spain declared the withdrawal of its ambassador to Buenos Aires "permanent" on Tuesday in an escalation of its response to Argentine President Javier Milei's derogatory comments about the wife of Spanish Prime Mi...
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Singapore Airlines plane made 'dramatic drop', people flung into lockers, says passenger
(Reuters) - There was little warning of the chaos that was about to be unleashed onboard Singapore Airlines flight SQ321. With around three hours left on the journey from London to Singapore, Malaysian student Dzafran Azmir got the uneasy feeling t...
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U.S. envoy: Israel-Saudi normalisation needs Gaza quiet, discussion of Palestinian rule
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Forging formal Israeli-Saudi relations as part of an emerging trilateral deal involving Washington would require a calming of the Gaza war and a discussion of prospects for Palestinian governance, the U.S. envo...
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Moldova signs security and defence partnership with EU
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Moldova has signed a security and defence partnership with the European Union, the first country to make such a deal with the bloc, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Tuesday. Led by pro-European President Maia Sandu...
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Factbox-Putin, Bashir and Kony among ICC war crimes suspects at large
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence chief and three Hamas leaders over alleged war crimes. If those requests...
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Russian court rejects appeal by dissident Kara-Murza to investigate poisonings
LONDON (Reuters) - A Moscow court ruled on Tuesday that Russia's Investigative Committee is not obliged to investigate two attempts on the life of jailed dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, independent news outlet Mediazona reported. Moscow-born Kara-Mu...
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Finnish court rejects German arms maker's complaint over rifle order
OSLO (Reuters) - Finland's Market Court has rejected German gun maker Heckler & Koch's complaint over the Finnish government's direct arms purchase from a local manufacturer, according to a ruling on Tuesday. The German company had accused Finland ...
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UK announces compensation package for blood scandal victims
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Tuesday it would begin making further interim compensation payments to the victims of the contaminated blood and blood products scandal. "The government will be making further interim payments ahead of the establi...
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Iranian President Raisi's memorial muted amid public discontent
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) - Thousands of Iranians turned out to mourn President Ebrahim Raisi in the city of Tabriz on Tuesday, after he was killed in a helicopter crash near the Azerbaijan border at the weekend along with his foreign minist...
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Prince Harry cannot take allegations against Rupert Murdoch to trial, court rules
LONDON (Reuters) - Prince Harry cannot amend his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid newspapers to include allegations involving his wife Meghan nor claims against the media mogul himself, London's High Court said on Tuesday. The princ...
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Right-wing crimes in Germany up by a quarter in 2023, data shows
BERLIN (Reuters) - Crimes motivated by right-wing ideology rose by nearly a quarter in Germany last year, statistics released by the Interior Ministry showed on Tuesday. A total of 28,945 such crimes were recorded in the country last year, a rise o...
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One dead as Singapore Airlines plane makes emergency landing due to turbulence, 30 reported injured
BANGKOK (Reuters) -A Singapore Airlines flight from London made an emergency landing in Bangkok on Tuesday due to severe turbulence, officials said, with one passenger on board dead and local media reporting multiple injuries. It was not immediately cl...
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Russian hypersonics expert jailed for 14 years for treason
By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) - Elderly Russian physicist Anatoly Maslov was sentenced on Tuesday to 14 years in a penal colony for treason, the latest of a string of cases against experts working on the science that underpins Russia's develop...
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China's foreign minister calls Taiwan's new president 'disgraceful'
By Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called Taiwan's newly-inaugurated President Lai Ching-te "disgraceful" on Tuesday, stepping up Beijing's rhetoric just a day after he took office. China, which claims Taiwan as its own...
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Russia says after Raisi crash that U.S. undermined aviation safety with sanctions
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, commenting on the helicopter crash that killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, said on Tuesday that U.S. sanctions had worsened aviation safety. Iranian media reported that images from the...
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Human rights group Asylum Aid files legal challenge to UK's Rwanda policy
LONDON (Reuters) - Human rights group Asylum Aid said on Tuesday it had filed a legal challenge to Britain's policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. "Asylum Aid has filed a claim in the High Court challenging the Home Office's 'Safety of Rwanda' g...
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Charges dropped against nine men over 2023 migrant shipwreck off Greece
KALAMATA (Reuters) - Charges against nine Egyptian men accused over a 2023 migrant boat disaster off Greece were dropped on Tuesday, after a Greek court said it had no jurisdiction to hear the case as the shipwreck happened in international waters....
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Germany's military aid for Ukraine to rise by 3.8 billion euros - source
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany plans to ramp up military aid for Ukraine by another 3.8 billion euros ($4.13 billion) this year, a source told Reuters on Tuesday, confirming a report by top-selling Bild. So far, Berlin has earmarked 7.1 billion euros f...
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Crown prince reassures Saudis about king's health, state TV reports
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made reassuring comments about King Salman's health during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday after the royal court said on Sunday the monarch will undergo treatment for a lung inflammatio...
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Israeli troops push into Jabalia, airstrikes kill five in Rafah
By Nidal al-Mughrabi (Reuters) - Israeli forces thrust deeper into the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza on Tuesday, laying waste to residential districts with tank and air bombardments, residents said, while Israeli air strikes killed at least five pe...
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Slovak PM Fico has CT scan during recovery from assassination attempt
(Reuters) - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico underwent a follow-up abdominal CT scan and remains conscious and communicative, doctors treating him said on Tuesday, as he recovers from being hit by four bullets in an assassination attempt last week...
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Thai minister quits over legal complaint seeking PM's dismissal
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai minister at the centre of a pending legal complaint seeking the dismissal of Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin resigned on Tuesday, in an effort to insulate the premier from possible repercussions. A group of 40 senators lo...
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Israel's Gallant calls ICC prosecutor moves against him and Netanyahu 'disgraceful'
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant described on Thursday a request by the International Criminal Court prosecutor for arrest warrants against him and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "disgraceful" bid to interfere in ...
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Kremlin says it is very curious that U.S. appears ready to sanction the ICC
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday it was very curious that the United States appeared ready to use sanctions against the International Criminal Court whose prosecutor requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netany...
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Trial over deadly Med shipwreck opens in Greece amid protests
By Renee Maltezou KALAMATA, Greece (Reuters) - The trial of nine Egyptian men accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants off Greece last year began amid protests on Tuesday in the city of Kalamata. Up to 700 migrants from Pakis...
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