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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Dead bodies in Mexico likely are missing U.S., Australian surfers
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The three dead bodies found in Mexico's Baja California state are highly like to be the American and two Australian tourists who went missing last week, a senior official from the region said on Saturday. "All three bodies m...
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Russian Su-25 jet shot down over eastern Ukraine, Zelenskiy says
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces shot down a Russian Su-25 fighter-bomber over the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. "It is important to be very focused these days," he said in his nightly video add...
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Germany denounces rising political violence after MEP seriously hurt
By Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) - German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser on Saturday vowed to fight a surge in violence against politicians after a German member of the European Parliament had to be taken to hospital after being at...
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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...
18h ago
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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Death toll from rains in southern Brazil climbs to 56, some 70 still missing
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The death toll from rains in Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul rose to 56, local authorities said on Saturday morning, while dozens still have not been accounted for. Rio Grande do Sul's civil defense authority ...
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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 ...
20h ago
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...
23h ago
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....
May 04, 2024
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...
May 04, 2024
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...
May 04, 2024
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 ...
May 04, 2024