Brazil ex-president Bolsonaro hospitalized again with skin infection
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he had to be hospitalized again in the northern city of Manaus due to a skin infection caused by a bacteria, adding there is no forecast for when he could be discharged....
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UN accuses Israel of denying Gaza aid access as famine takes hold
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top U.N. official on Sunday accused Israel of continuing to deny the United Nations humanitarian access in the Gaza Strip, where the U.N. food chief warned a "full-blown famine" has taken hold in the north...
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Russia takes control of Ocheretyne village in Ukraine's east -defence ministry
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian forces have taken control of the village of Ocheretyne, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday. The village, which lies northwest of the onetime Ukrainian stronghold of Avdiivka w...
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Russian attacks on Kharkiv and region kill one, injure 17, officials say
By Vitalii Hnidyi KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) - Russian attacks on Orthodox Easter Sunday killed a woman buried under rubble and injured 17 in Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv and the surrounding region, regional officials said. Regional Gover...
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Thousands protest against Hungary's Orban in ruling party stronghold
By Boldizsar Gyori DEBRECEN, Hungary (Reuters) - Thousands of Hungarians protested against nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban at a rally on Sunday weeks ahead of European Parliament and local elections due in early June. Peter Magyar, a forme...
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Death toll from rains in southern Brazil climbs to 66, over 100 still missing
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The death toll from heavy rains that have inundated Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to at least 66, local authorities said on Sunday. The number of people still missing rose to 101 and more than 80,000 h...
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South Africa inquiry blames authorities for neglect leading to deadly fire
By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An inquiry into a fire that killed 77 people in Johannesburg last year blamed neglect by authorities for allowing a building to become a den for guns, murder, drugs and combustible trash, and failing to evacuat...
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Gaza ceasefire talks continue in Cairo, Israel pounds the Palestinian enclave
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - Hamas leaders held a second day of truce talks with Egyptian and Qatari mediators on Sunday, with no apparent progress reported as the Islamist group maintained its demand that any agreement must end the war i...
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Hamas claims responsibility for attack on Israel-Gaza border crossing, casualties reported
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza that local media reports said resulted in Israeli casuatlies. The Israel military said 10...
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Poland wants best ties with US no matter who's in power, minister says
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland wants "the best possible relations with America, regardless of who is in power," Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said during a visit to Washington, according to a report by Poland's PAP newswire on Sunday."We will not m...
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Four Lebanese civilians killed in Israeli strike on border village
AMMAN (Reuters) - Four members of a Lebanese family were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in a town in southern Lebanon on Sunday, civil defence and security sources said. They said the family were killed in the village of Meiss al Jabal, ...
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Israeli cabinet moves to close Al Jazeera's local operations
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet voted unanimously on Sunday to close Qatari television network Al Jazeera's operations in Israel, according to a government statement, which did not stipulate when the decision might...
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Hamas killing spree haunts Holocaust survivors in 'March of the Living'
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Holocaust commemorations this year have a searing significance for six elderly survivors now deeply scarred by the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7 that sparked the ongoing Gaza war. The killing and kidnapping ...
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Russian attacks on Ukraine energy system caused $1 billion in damages - minister
KYIV (Reuters) - Recent Russian massive drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian energy system have caused more than $1 billion worth of damage to the sector, Ukraine's energy minister German Galushchenko said on Sunday. Since March 22, the Russian f...
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On Orthodox Easter, Zelenskiy calls on Ukrainians to unite in prayer
By Pavel Polityuk and Lidia Kelly KYIV (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on his fellow Ukrainians on Orthodox Easter on Sunday to unite in prayer for each other and the soldiers on the frontline, saying God -- who has a "Ukrainian fl...
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Russia blames Baltic countries for the severing of most ties
(Reuters) - The "hostile line" of the Baltic countries have led to the severance of most of their ties with Russia, the Russian foreign ministry said in remarks published on Sunday, warning also that Moscow will respond with asymmetric measures. "B...
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Panamanians vote in crowded field of presidential contenders
By Valentine Hilaire and Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panamanians will head to the polls in Sunday's general election to elect one of eight contenders to be the nation's next president and vote for hundreds of local lawmakers and officials....
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Putin attends Easter service led by head of Russia's Orthodox Church
(Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin and scores of other Moscow worshippers attended an Easter service on Sunday, led by the head of Russia's Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, a staunch supporter of the Russian leader and his war in Ukraine. Putin...
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Fake videos of Modi aides trigger political showdown in India election
By Munsif Vengattil, Saurabh Sharma and Rishika Sadam BENGALURU/LUCKNOW (Reuters) - Manipulated videos are taking centre stage as campaigning heats up in India's election, with fake clips involving two top aides of Prime Minister Narendra Modi tri...
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Australian police shoot dead boy after stabbing with 'hallmarks' of terrorism
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police said on Sunday they shot dead a boy after he stabbed a man in Western Australia's capital Perth, in an attack authorities said indicated terrorism. There were signs the 16-year-old, armed with a kitchen knife, h...
May 05, 2024
North Korea's U.N. ambassador says US-led sanctions monitoring groups will fail
SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led efforts to form new groups monitoring sanctions on North Korea will fail, the country's U.N. envoy said on Sunday according to state media KCNA carrying his statement. Ambassador Kim Song made the comment in response to a...
May 05, 2024
France's Macron set to press visiting Xi on trade, Ukraine
By John Irish and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) - China's President Xi Jinping heads to Paris on Sunday for a rare visit, with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron set to press him to reduce trade imbalances and try to convince him to use his i...
May 05, 2024
Togo ruling party wins sweeping majority in legislative poll, final provisional results show
LOME (Reuters) - Togo's ruling party has won 108 out of 113 seats in parliament, according to the final provisional results of last month's legislative election announced on Friday. The sweeping majority secured by President Faure Gnassingbe's UNIR...
May 04, 2024
Thousands of Israelis protest to demand hostage return
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday, demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accept a ceasefire agreement with the Islamist movement Hamas that would see the remaining Israeli hostages brought home from Gaza. At a r...
May 04, 2024
Netherlands prepares for World War II remembrance amid Gaza security fears
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands was preparing for its annual World War II remembrance ceremony in Amsterdam on Saturday with restricted public access and heightened security as a result of the war in Gaza. The city of Amsterdam announced earl...
May 04, 2024