Sixty injured in Buenos Aires train collision
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - At least 60 people were injured on Friday when a seven-car passenger train collided with a locomotive and an empty train car in Buenos Aires, local authorities said, without giving details of how serious the injuries were. ...
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US to announce new $400 million military aid package for Ukraine, official says
(Reuters) - The United States is preparing a $400 million military aid package for Ukraine, as the U.S. returns to a regular pace of supplying weapons to Kyiv after the passage of a $95 billion bill, a U.S. official told Reuters on Friday. The Ukra...
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Gunmen kidnap nine students from Nigerian university
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least nine students were kidnapped from their classrooms by gunmen at a university in Nigeria's northern state of Kogi, the state government said on Friday, as Africa's most populous nation grapples with widespread...
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Canada to give C$76 million to help buy air defenses for Ukraine
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will contribute C$76 million ($55.7 million) to a German-led initiative that aims to quickly source and deliver air defense systems to Ukraine to fend off Russian attacks, Defence Minister Bill Blair said on Friday. Blair ...
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Britain's Prince William says wife Kate is 'doing well'
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William said on Friday his wife Kate was "doing well" in a rare public comment about the Princess of Wales as she undergoes preventative chemotherapy for cancer. Kate announced in March she was having treatment a...
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Canada moves to push back start date for possible rail strike
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government is moving to push back the start of a possible strike by railway workers at Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), an official said on Friday. Workers represented by the Te...
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Mozambique's president says northern town under Islamist attack
MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique's army is fighting Islamist insurgents who launched a major attack on the northern town of Macomia on Friday morning, President Filipe Nyusi said in a televised address. The town is in Cabo Delgado, a gas-rich northern...
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Death toll from floods in southern Brazil hits 113
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state has climbed to 113, local civil defense said on Friday, up from 107 in the previous day, while another 146 people were still unaccounted for. Storms and flood...
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Indian security forces kill at least 12 Maoist rebels in gunbattle
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian security forces killed at least 12 Maoist rebels in a gun battle in central India on Friday, the chief minister of Chhattisgarh state said, the third major encounter in recent weeks amid ongoing national elections. The ...
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Three killed as bus falls into river in Russia's St Petersburg, TASS says
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Three people died after passenger bus fell off a bridge and into the Moika river in the Russian city of St Petersburg on Friday, the TASS news agency cited local authorities as saying. Six more people have been hospital...
May 10, 2024
Trump prosecutors prepare to call final witnesses in hush money trial
By Luc Cohen and Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump is set to return to court Friday after porn star Stormy Daniels' lurid testimony about her alleged sexual encounter with him, as prosecutors prepare to call their final witnesses in the ...
May 10, 2024
Pandemic treaty talks to the wire, likely to miss first deadline, sources say
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - Talks to draw up a global pact to help fight future pandemics are likely to miss an initial deadline on Friday, three sources close to the process said. Negotiators from the World Health Organization's 194 membe...
May 10, 2024
Elderly climate activists damage Magna Carta case at British Library
LONDON (Reuters) - Two climate protesters aged 82 and 85 smashed parts of the reinforced case holding an original text of the Magna Carta in the British Library in London on Friday before the pair - one an Anglican priest - were stopped by security...
May 10, 2024
Suspects in alleged Russia-linked UK arson attack to face trial next year
LONDON (Reuters) - Four men will go on trial next year accused of setting fire to a London commercial property linked to Ukraine, an arson attack allegedly paid for by Russian intelligence, a British court heard on Friday. They were charged last mo...
May 10, 2024
Ukraine expects energy deficit to rise in summer due to Russian attacks
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine may face an increase in electricity shortages this summer caused by recent Russian attacks on power stations amid rising consumption and a repair campaign at nuclear power plants, the head of the country's grid operator sai...
May 10, 2024
Israeli tanks encircle eastern half of Rafah
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli tanks captured the main road dividing the eastern and western halves of Rafah on Friday, effectively encircling the entire eastern side of the city in the southern Gaza Strip. Residents described almos...
May 10, 2024
Russia says protesters tried to occupy former Russian consulate in Leipzig
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Six unidentified people tried to take over a building owned by the Russian government in the German city of Leipzig on Thursday, Russia's foreign ministry said on Friday, adding that it would lodge an official complaint. It said ...
May 10, 2024
Gaza aid could grind to a halt within days, UN agencies warn
LONDON (Reuters) - Dwindling food and fuel stocks could force aid operations to grind to a halt within days in Gaza as vital crossings remain shut, forcing hospitals to close down and leading to more malnutrition, United Nations aid agencies warned...
May 10, 2024
Polish farmers march against 'green poison' EU climate change rules
By Kuba Stezycki WARSAW (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw on Friday to show their opposition to European Union environmental regulations that farmers say are driving them out of business. F...
May 10, 2024
Education board in Virginia votes to restore schools' Confederate names
By Evelyn Hockstein and Julia Harte WOODSTOCK, Virginia (Reuters) - The education board for Shenandoah County, Virginia, voted early on Friday to restore Confederate generals' names to two public schools in the predominantly white, rural and solidl...
May 10, 2024
Two Britons to face trial next year accused of spying for China
LONDON (Reuters) - Two Britons, including a former researcher for a prominent British lawmaker in the governing Conservative Party, were told on Friday they would go on trial next year accused of spying for China. The men, ex-researcher Christopher...
May 10, 2024
Explainer-Catalonia's independence struggle – what now?
By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain's Catalonia region holds an election on Sunday with big implications for the Socialist-led national government and a pro-independence movement rumbling for a decade. WHEN DID THE INDEPENDENCE PUSH START? Sup...
May 10, 2024
Pope urges governments to tackle demographic crisis
By Angelo Amante and Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) - Governments have to implement "serious and effective" policies in favour of families to tackle the issues of falling birth rates and aging populations, Pope Francis said on Friday, urging young p...
May 10, 2024
Ukraine sends in reinforcements after Russian forces attack Kharkiv region
(Reuters) - Russian forces tried to break through the border into Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region with armoured vehicles on Friday and heavily shelled the area, Kyiv said, the strongest sign yet that Moscow seeks to awaken a new front in the ...
May 10, 2024
Turkey says it killed 17 Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, Syria
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish forces have killed 17 militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) across various regions of northern Iraq and northern Syria, the defence ministry said on Friday. In a post on social media platform X, the mini...
May 10, 2024