Ukraine's Zelenskiy: We must speed up deliveries of weaponry for frontline soldiers
(Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Ukraine needed "a significant acceleration" in deliveries of weaponry from its partners to enable its troops to face advancing Russian troops in several sectors of the front line. Zelen...
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Italian general takes aim at woke policies, cancel culture
By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - An Italian army general who sparked outrage by publishing a book disparaging LGBT people, migrants, minorities and feminists on Tuesday said woke policies and cancel culture had made Europeans ashamed of their root...
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Blinken says he will press Netanyahu on Gaza aid measures
By Humeyra Pamuk and Simon Lewis AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday that he will discuss with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu measures that Israel still needs to take to increase the flow of aid into Gaza, as...
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Haiti transition council names former senate leader as president
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's transition council on Tuesday named Edgard Leblanc, the former senate president, to head the body instated last week as it seeks to bring security back to the violence-wracked Caribbean nation. Leblanc's naming fo...
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Yellen: US negotiating R&D tax credit as part of global tax deal
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday that the United States is in talks with other countries to carve out an allowance for the U.S. research and development tax credit as part of the 15% global mini...
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Argentina grains ports hit by strikes for second day, industry officials say
By Maximilian Heath BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina grains ports were being impacted by strike action against government reforms for a second day on Tuesday, industry officials told Reuters, hitting shipments of soy, corn and wheat from one of t...
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US State Dept reduces arms licensing burden for UK, Australia to boost AUKUS
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department unveiled its proposal to reduce licensing requirements for transferring military equipment and sensitive technology to Australia and Britain as part of the AUKUS defense project. AUKUS,...
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White House denounces takeover of campus building as protests escalate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House denounced non-peaceful efforts to protest the war in Gaza on Tuesday as students at Columbia University occupied a campus building, saying it was "the wrong approach." White House spokesman John Kirby said the...
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Explainer-What is GPS jamming and why it is a problem for aviation?
By Anne Kauranen, Joanna Plucinska and James Pearson HELSINKI/LONDON (Reuters) - Estonia has accused neighbouring Russia of jamming GPS navigation devices in airspace above the Baltic states, echoing concerns from airlines that say they have been ...
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Ireland aims to enact legislation on returning asylum seekers to UK by end of May
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's government said on Tuesday it planned to enact legislation by the end of May allowing it to resume sending asylum seekers back to the United Kingdom. The Irish High Court ruled last month that Ireland could not send ba...
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Brother of Mexican drug lord 'El Mencho' was released, security ministry says
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico released on Tuesday Abraham Oseguera, the brother of Mexican drug lord Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), the security ministry said. Oseguera, also known as "...
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Biden signs new memo to boost security of US critical infrastructure
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a new national security memorandum to boost the resilience of U.S. critical infrastructure, replacing a decade-old policy. The White House said it was launching a "com...
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Azerbaijan puts activist in pre-trial custody on smuggling charge he denies
BAKU (Reuters) - An Azerbaijani pro-democracy activist was placed in pre-trial custody on Tuesday on smuggling charges he denied in the latest of a series of cases that have prompted Western concern about free speech and human rights. A court place...
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World Court rejects emergency measures over German arms exports to Israel
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Judges at the International Court of Justice on Tuesday ruled against issuing emergency orders to stop German arms exports to Israel, adding that they remained deeply concerned about conditions in Gaz...
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Tajikistan secures $550 million funding for Rogun megaproject
DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajikistan has secured $550 million in financing from the Islamic Development Bank and institutions in several Arab countries for its Rogun hydroelectric power plant megaproject, the Dushanbe government said on Tuesday. The Cen...
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Bakeries bring bread to north Gaza but hunger persists
By Mahmoud Issa and Saleh Salem GAZA/DOHA (Reuters) - Asmaa al-Belbasi walks an hour to her nearest bakery each day to fetch bread for her children and other relatives in the north Gaza districts where aid agencies say famine still looms despite ri...
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Palestinians throw stones at EU diplomats' car in West Bank protest over war
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A group of Palestinian students disrupted a meeting of European Union diplomats in the West Bank on Tuesday and attacked some of their cars with stones, smashing the back window of one of the vehicles to protest agai...
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Young eastern Europeans reflect on 20 years of EU membership
(Reuters) - Born some 20 years ago as their countries joined the European Union, a cohort of young adults has grown up with rights and freedoms as citizens of the bloc that their parents never knew. As a swathe of central and eastern European count...
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Pro-Palestinian protesters occupy building at Columbia University - CNN
(Reuters) - Pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University were occupying a building on the New York City campus on Tuesday as officials limited access to students who live there and essential employees. The protesters who were occupying Hamilto...
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Austrian court defers ruling on Fritzl move to regular prison, lawyer says
KREMS AN DER DONAU, Austria (Reuters) - An Austrian court on Tuesday deferred a ruling on whether the country's most infamous living criminal, 89-year-old incestuous rapist Josef Fritzl, could be transferred to regular prison from a prison psychiat...
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Ukraine's trust in NATO allies dented by arms delivery failures, Stoltenberg says
By Andrew Gray RZESZOW, Poland (Reuters) - Ukraine's trust in its NATO allies has "taken a dent" because of delays and failures in the delivery of arms for the war against Russia's invasion, NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg said. Speaking to Reuters on...
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Trump does not rule out building detention camps for mass deportations
By Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump does not rule out building detention camps on U.S. soil for migrants in the country illegally if he wins a second White House term, he told Time magazine in an interv...
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Lebanese students stage rare university protest against Israel
By Emilie Madi and Mohamed Azakir BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hundreds of students gathered at university campuses in Lebanon on Tuesday to protest against Israel, the country's first coordinated university protests over Gaza, which participants said were i...
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Turkish national stabs Israeli policeman in Jerusalem, is shot dead -police statement
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A Turkish national on Tuesday stabbed an Israeli border policeman in Jerusalem and was then shot dead by officers at the scene, Israeli police said. The border policeman was moderately wounded. Police identified the attacker as a 3...
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China, US to hold climate meetings in Washington in May
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. climate change diplomat John Podesta said on Tuesday he will meet his Chinese counterpart Liu Zhenmin in Washington in early May, resuming bilateral talks on climate cooperation amid simmering tensio...
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