Explainer-Gaza death toll: how many Palestinians has Israel's campaign killed
(Reuters) - Palestinian health authorities say Israel's ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 35,000 people, mostly civilians, and driven most of the enclave's 2.3 million people from their homes. The war began on Oct. 7 when Hamas m...
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Taiwan-China tensions ratchet up week before presidential inauguration
By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan reported Chinese forces were carrying out another "combat patrol" near the island on Tuesday, including sending aircraft across the Taiwan Strait's sensitive median line, as tensions rise a week before a n...
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Poland to boost intelligence spending due to Russian threat, says PM
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will allocate an additional 100 million zlotys ($25.30 million) to boost its intelligence services, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday, as he warned of a rising threat from Russia. Poland says its place as a distri...
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Two French prison guards killed, inmate escapes in ambush; manhunt launched
PARIS (Reuters) - At least two French prison guards were shot dead and three others seriously injured on Tuesday after heavily armed men ambushed a prison van to free an inmate, French police said, triggering a major manhunt. The orchestrated attac...
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Belousov says Russia must win in Ukraine while minimising troop losses
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's main task is to achieve victory on the battlefield in Ukraine with the minimal loss of troops, Andrei Belousov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's nominee for defence minister, said on Tuesday. Russia should employ all a...
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Several people feared trapped in collapsed building in Nairobi
(Reuters) - Several people were feared trapped under the rubble of a building that collapsed as it was being demolished in the Mathare neighbourhood of Kenya's capital Nairobi on Tuesday, the Kenya Red Cross said. (Reporting by George Obulutsa; Wr...
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World Court to hold hearings over Israel's Rafah attacks
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The U.N.'s International Court of Justice will hold hearings on Thursday and Friday to discuss new emergency measures sought by South Africa over Israel's attacks on Rafah during the war in Gaza, the court...
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Germany needs strong military recruitment, Scholz says in conscription debate
By Rachel More and Andreas Rinke BERLIN/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Germany must find ways to convince people to sign up for a career in the military, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday, as the country looks at conscription as a possible way to boos...
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Georgian lawmakers brawl as parliament set to pass 'foreign agent' bill
By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian lawmakers brawled in parliament on Tuesday during a debate on the third and final reading of a bill on "foreign agents" that has plunged the South Caucasus country into an extended political crisis and sp...
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Kremlin critic Kara-Murza loses his appeal against treason sentence
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza against his 25-year jail sentence on treason and other charges, according to a Reuters reporter at the court on Tuesday. Moscow-born Kara-Murza, ...
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Britain summons Chinese ambassador over Hong Kong spying charges -Telegraph
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's foreign ministry has summoned the Chinese ambassador after three men were charged with spying for Hong Kong, the Telegraph newspaper reported on Tuesday. The ambassador will be challenged by officials over the allegatio...
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Rescuers search for three miners after tremor in Polish coal mine
WARSAW (Reuters) - Rescuers are searching for three miners missing after an overnight tremor caused a partial collapse in a section of the Myslowice-Wesola mine in southern Poland, authorities said on Tuesday. The tremor occurred 870 meters undergr...
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Trump's former fixer Cohen to resume testifying about hush money deal with porn star
By Jack Queen, Luc Cohen and Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen will resume testifying on Tuesday at the Republican presidential candidate's criminal trial, a day after telling jurors that Trump personally auth...
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Israeli forces back in old Gaza battlegrounds as doubts over war aims grow
By James Mackenzie and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) - Seven months into the war, Israeli troops are back fighting in the north of the Gaza Strip, in areas that were supposed to have been cleared months ago, highlighting growing quest...
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Talks over Gaza ceasefire at stalemate after Rafah operation, Qatar PM says
DOHA (Reuters) - Talks over a ceasefire in Gaza have reached a stalemate due to Israel's operations in Rafah, Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said on Tuesday. Israeli operations in Rafah, which started this month, ha...
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China poses genuine and increasing cyber risk to UK, spy agency head says
BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - China poses a genuine and increasing cyber risk to the United Kingdom, the head of British spy agency GCHQ said on Tuesday, adding that while Russia and Iran represented an immediate threat, Beijing was an epoch-defi...
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Russian Defence Ministry's head of HR detained for bribery - investigators
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The head of personnel management at Russia's Defence Ministry has been arrested on suspicion of bribery, the Investigative Committee, which handles serious crimes, said on Tuesday. The committee said Yuri Kuznetsov was suspected of "r...
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Israeli tanks push into Gaza's Rafah, as displaced civilians flee again
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli tanks forged deeper into eastern Rafah, reaching some residential districts on Tuesday, stepping up an offensive in the southern border city where more than a million people had been sheltering after b...
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Austrian court approves rapist Fritzl's move to regular prison
VIENNA, Austria (Reuters) - An Austrian court said on Tuesday it had ruled that the country's most infamous living criminal, 89-year-old incestuous rapist Josef Fritzl, could be transferred to regular prison from a prison psychiatric unit. A transf...
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Pakistan unveils broader privatisation plan for state-owned enterprises
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan will privatise all state-owned enterprises, with the exception of strategic entities, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced on Tuesday, broadening its initial plans to take only loss-making state fir...
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Putin appoints Patrushev and Dyumin as Kremlin aides
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Nikolai Patrushev as an aide along with long-term ally Alexei Dyumin while raising his economic adviser, Maxim Oreshkin, to the job of deputy chief of staff, the Kremlin said on Tuesday....
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China launches campaign to halt school bullying, excessive homework
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Ministry of Education said on Tuesday it was launching a campaign to address issues including excessive homework and bullying in schools, as part of efforts to boost students' mental health. The announcement came a day...
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Putin to visit China May 16-17, Kremlin says
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit China on May 16-17, his first foreign trip since his inauguration for a new term as president, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. "At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Vladimir ...
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Freight train derails in Russia due to 'interference', officials say
(Reuters) - Freight train cars derailed and a storage tank containing diesel fuel caught fire in the southern Russian region of Volgograd due to "outside interference," Russian officials said on Tuesday. "As a result of interference by unauthorised...
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At least 14 killed after billboard collapses in Mumbai during thunderstorm
MUMBAI (Reuters) - At least 14 people have died and dozens were injured after a huge billboard fell on them during a thunderstorm in India's financial capital Mumbai, according to local authorities. The billboard collapsed on some houses and a petr...
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