Sadiq Khan wins re-election as London mayor
LONDON (Reuters) - Sadiq Khan was re-elected as London's mayor, final results showed on Saturday, helping to cement the Labour Party's commanding lead over the governing Conservatives in local polls ahead of Britain's national election later this y...
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Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in overnight raid near West Bank's Tulkarm
TULKARM, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed at least three Palestinians in an overnight raid in a village near the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian officials and a Reuters reporter at the scene. The Pales...
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India waits for details on arrests in Canada over Sikh separatist's murder
By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - India will wait for Canadian police to share information on the three Indian men it has arrested and charged with the murder of a Sikh separatist leader last year, Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaisha...
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Russia puts Ukraine's Zelenskiy on wanted list, TASS reports
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has opened a criminal case against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and put him on a wanted list, the state news agency TASS reported on Saturday, citing the Interior Ministry's database. The entry it cited gave no ...
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Vietnam police arrest former head of government office amid anti-graft crackdown
HANOI (Reuters) - Police in Vietnam have arrested the former head of the government office, Mai Tien Dung, on suspicion of abuse of power, the Ministry of Public Security said on Saturday, amid a widening anti-graft crackdown in the Southeast Asian...
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Hamas negotiators arrive in Cairo for Gaza truce talks; CIA chief also present
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ahmed Mohamed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) - Hamas negotiators arrived in Cairo on Saturday for intensified talks on a possible Gaza truce that would see the return to Israel of some hostages, a Hamas official told Reuters, with ...
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More migrant dinghies cross Channel to England despite Rwanda threat
By Zainab Elhaj and Will Russell STRAIT OF DOVER (Reuters) - Dozens of people in two rubber dinghies reached the southern coast of England on Saturday, the latest among thousands of asylum-seeking migrants to make the risky sea crossing from France...
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Qatar considers future of Hamas office in Doha, and whether to keep mediating
By Andrew Mills DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar could close the political office of Hamas as part of a broader review of its role as a mediator in the war between Israel and the militant Palestinian Islamist group, according to an official familiar with th...
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Drones above, police at the gates: Columbia protest camp's final moments
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The occupation of a building at Columbia University by pro-Palestinian student protesters was in its 18th hour when photos and videos dinged across students' phones: police had parked at least seven jail buses...
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NATO drills show it is preparing for potential conflict with Russia, Moscow says
MOSCOW (Reuters) - NATO's four-month long military exercises near Russia's borders, known as Steadfast Defender, are proof the alliance is preparing for a potential conflict with Russia, a spokeswoman for Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday....
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Students erect pro-Palestinian camp at Ireland's Trinity College
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Students at Trinity College Dublin protesting Israel's war in Gaza have built an encampment that forced the university to restrict campus access on Saturday and close the Book of Kells exhibition, one of Ireland's top tourist att...
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Rwanda denies its troops attacked displaced persons camp in DR Congo
KIGALI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rwanda on Saturday denied U.S. accusations that its forces attacked a displaced persons' camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and instead blamed militias it said were supported by the Congolese military f...
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Russia says it shot down four U.S.-made long range missiles over Crimea
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian defence ministry said on Saturday its air defence forces shot down four U.S.-produced long-range missiles over the Crimea peninsular, weapons known as Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) that Washington has shipped to ...
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Debris from drones injures three in Ukraine's Kharkiv, governor says
(Reuters) - Debris from downed Russian drones struck civilian targets early on Saturday in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, injuring three people and sparking a fire in an office building, the regional governor said. Oleh Synehubov, writing ...
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India's foreign minister rejects Biden's 'xenophobia' comment
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar rejected U.S. President Joe Biden's comment that "xenophobia" was hobbling the South Asian nation's economic growth, The Economic Times reported on Saturday. Jaishankar said at a...
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Canada's arrests of three Indian men in Sikh leader's death 'bittersweet,' friend says
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - If Hardeep Singh Nijjar were alive, he and his friend Moninder Singh would probably be chatting in a backyard over milkshakes. But he is not. The Canadian Sikh leader was gunned down almost a year ago in B...
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Canada police charge three with murder of Sikh leader Nijjar, probe India link
By David Ljunggren and Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canadian police on Friday arrested and charged three Indian men with the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year and said they were probing whether the men had ties to the I...
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King Charles and UK royals to relinquish dozens of patronages
LONDON (Reuters) - King Charles and other senior British royals are to relinquish patronages of almost 200 charities and organisations after a review of their association with more than 1,000 groups, Buckingham Palace said on Saturday. The review w...
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CIA director in Cairo for meetings on Gaza conflict, Egyptian sources say
CAIRO (Reuters) - CIA Director William Burns arrived in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Friday for meetings about the conflict in Gaza, an Egyptian security source and three sources at Cairo airport said. Egypt, along with Qatar and the United States...
May 03, 2024
Amid protests and police raids, US schools try to keep the peace at graduation
By Julia Harte (Reuters) - Ahead of the University of Michigan's commencement on Saturday, the school has trained staff volunteers in how to mitigate disruptions: a change from the usual duties of guiding guests around campus and showing them to th...
May 03, 2024
Rains in southern Brazil kill at least 31, more than 70 still missing
(Reuters) - Heavy rains battering Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul have killed 31 people, local authorities said on Friday, and the death toll is expected to rise as dozens still have not been accounted for. More than 70 people were...
May 03, 2024
Factbox-What led to Canada's arrests over killing of Sikh separatist?
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canadian police on Friday charged three people linked to the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in the province of British Columbia in June 2023, a source directly familiar with the matter said. The...
May 03, 2024
Hamas confirms its delegation to visit Cairo on Saturday, official says
By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Yomna Ehab and Enas Alashray CAIRO (Reuters) - A delegation from Palestinian militant group Hamas will visit Cairo on Saturday, a Hamas official told Reuters, amid expectations that they will deliver a written response to an I...
May 03, 2024
Exclusive-Biden campaign rolls out new abortion ads aimed at Latino men
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Joe Biden will ramp up spending this month as part of a new advertising push aimed partly at convincing Latino men that abortion rights are a vital issue that affects them, the U.S. president's 2024 campai...
May 03, 2024
Kenya's weather outlook 'dire' as cyclone nears, president says
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Torrential rains that caused widespread flooding and landslides across Kenya in recent weeks, killing at least 210 people, are forecast to worsen over the rest of this month, President William Ruto said on Friday. The floods hav...
May 03, 2024