White House's Sullivan heading to Saudi Arabia and Israel this weekend
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan will travel on Saturday to Saudi Arabia for talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and will visit Israel on Sunday to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Whi...
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Portuguese speaker defends lawmaker's race remarks as free speech
By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) - A comment made by a far-right lawmaker in Portugal's parliament on Friday that opponents have criticised as racist has sparked a storm over whether or not such remarks should be considered as protected free spe...
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Ukraine restores consular services for military-age men abroad
(Reuters) - Ukraine will lift a temporary ban it imposed on consular services for military-age men living abroad starting on Saturday, the foreign ministry said. Hundreds of thousands of military-age Ukrainian men are living abroad, while the count...
20h ago
Israeli strikes kill at least 5 in Lebanon, including civilians
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon killed at least five people on Friday including Lebanese militants, Palestinian fighters and Syrian civilians, security sources told Reuters. Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezboll...
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Gunmen kill three foreign tourists in Afghanistan's central Bamyan province
KABUL (Reuters) - Three foreign tourists and one Afghan citizen were killed by gunmen in Afghanistan's central Bamyan province on Friday, the interior ministry said. Four foreign nationals and three Afghans were also injured in the attack when gunm...
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Yellen to push G7 to bring forward interest on Russian assets to aid Ukraine
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will push fellow G7 finance officials next week to agree to a plan to bring forward the interest earnings on frozen Russian assets to provide more money to Ukraine quickly,...
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Sonia Gandhi makes emotional appeal to voters on behalf of son
(Reuters) - Sonia Gandhi, the leader of India's Congress party, made an emotional appeal to voters in the family borough, asking them to vote for her son in a region that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party have dominated in the last ten yea...
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Russia's Tuapse oil refinery halted after Ukrainian drone attack, sources say
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A fire triggered by a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Tuapse oil refinery on the Black Sea coast has forced an emergency shut down of the refinery, two sources familiar with the matter said. The fire at the refinery, owned by ...
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Anger, anxiety, acrimony: Slovaks weigh what led to Fico shooting
By Boldizsar Gyori, Kuba Stezycki and Jan Lopatka HANDLOVA, Slovakia/BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovak opposition party leader Michal Simecka, who described an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Robert Fico this week as an attack on democracy, sa...
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Israeli military says forces seized bodies of three hostages from Gaza
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces rescued the bodies of three hostages from the Gaza Strip, chief military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on Friday. Hagari identified the hostages as Shani Louk, Amit Buskila and Itzhak Gelerenter, who he said w...
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Thousands mark Family Purity in Georgia as anti-govt protests simmer
TBILISI (Reuters) - Thousands of Georgians led by Orthodox Christian clerics marked "Family Purity Day" on Friday, marching down the same central avenue in Tbilisi that has been the scene of some of the fiercest anti-government protests in the coun...
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Canada's Security Intelligence chief warns that China can use TikTok to spy on users, CBC reports
(Reuters) - The head of Canada's Security Intelligence Service warned Canadians against using video app TikTok, saying data gleaned from its users "is available to the government of China," CBC News reported on Friday. "My answer as director of the...
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Ukraine braces for 'heavy battles' as Putin says Russia carving out Kharkiv buffer zone
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's top commander warned on Friday of "heavy battles" looming on the war's new front in the northeastern Kharkiv region as Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was carving out a "buffer zone" in the area. Russian forc...
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Iran arrests over 260 including three Europeans at 'Satanist' meeting, Tasnim says
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian security forces have arrested more than 260 people, including three European nationals, at a "Satanist" gathering west of the capital Tehran, the semi-official new agency Tasnim reported on Friday. The raid follows a natio...
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Russian guided bombs kill two, injure 13 in Ukraine's Kharkiv
(Reuters) - Russian guided bombs killed at least two people and injured 13 others in the northeastern Ukraine's city of Kharkiv on Friday, local officials said. It was not immediately clear what they had been targeting but the regional governor sai...
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Zelenskiy signs law allowing some convicts to serve in Ukraine's army
(Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a law allowing some categories of convicts to serve in the army, parliament's database showed on Friday. A separate law enhancing fines for those not abiding by army mobilization rules was ...
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Russia's Novorossiisk oil infrastructure hit by drone attack early on Friday, sources say
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A drone attack on Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiisk early on Friday hit the Importpischeprom oil products terminal and Sheskharis oil harbour, sources said and video shared on social media showed. The port was shut soon aft...
May 17, 2024
Turkey opposition chief cool to constitution talks with Erdogan
By Huseyin Hayatsever and Birsen Altayli ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's main opposition leader, boosted by sweeping local election gains in March, said he is "far off" opening talks with Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party over a new constitution since the ...
May 17, 2024
Ukraine stages long-range attacks on targets in Crimea and southern Russia, source says
(Reuters) - Ukraine attacked a power substation in Russian-occupied Crimea, an oil depot and railway station in Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and an oil refinery in the port town of Tuapse overnight, a Kyiv intelligence source told Reute...
May 17, 2024
German defence industry says it will need government help to reduce dependence on China
By Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) - German arms producers will need help from the government if they are to reduce their dependency on Chinese materials and still be able to compete with U.S. companies, Germany's defence industry association said....
May 17, 2024
Putin queries political legitimacy of Ukrainian President Zelenskiy in absence of elections
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin queried the political legitimacy of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday when asked about the absence of plans to hold a presidential election in Ukraine at the moment. Martial law im...
May 17, 2024
Fierce fighting in northern Gaza as Israel defends itself at World Court
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli forces battled Hamas fighters in the narrow alleyways of Jabalia in northern Gaza on Friday in some of the fiercest engagements since they returned to the area a week ago, while in the south militants ...
May 17, 2024
Putin says Russia is carving out a buffer zone in Ukraine's Kharkiv region
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russian forces advancing in Ukraine's Kharkiv region were creating a "buffer zone" to protect Russian border regions, but said capturing the city of Kharkiv was not part of Russia's cu...
May 17, 2024
Vatican urges caution over weeping Madonnas and other supposed apparitions
By Alvise Armellini VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican issued new guidelines on Friday recommending a cautious approach to supposed supernatural events such as weeping Madonnas and blood-dripping crucifixes that have for centuries whipped up the ...
May 17, 2024
Dominican Republic`s Abinader looks set for first-round election win
By Dave Sherwood (Reuters) - The Dominican Republic's Luis Abinader, an anti-corruption crusader who helped catapult the island nation's economy from pandemic lows to one of the fastest growing in Latin America, looks set for a first round victory ...
May 17, 2024