Three men accused in Canadian Sikh leader's death appear in court
TORONTO (Reuters) - The three men accused of murdering Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year in a killing that triggered a diplomatic crisis between Canada and India appeared briefly in a British Columbia courtroom on Tuesday. Karanpr...
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Peru port conflict escalates as Chinese firm insists on original terms
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - The Chinese state-owned company at the center of a dispute over operations of a megaport it is building on Peru's Pacific coast insisted on Tuesday on terms agreed with the government, as some local officials have s...
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Italy bans NGO planes from using airports close to migrant routes
ROME (Reuters) - Italy said on Tuesday that planes used by charities to track migrant boats in difficulty would no longer be able to fly from airports on the islands of Sicily, Pantelleria and Lampedusa that are close to the shipping routes. The de...
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Hamas official warns of no ceasefire deal if Israeli aggression on Gaza continues
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hamas official Osama Hamdan warned on Tuesday that if Israel's military aggression continues in Rafah, there will be no ceasefire deal. Hamdan's comments were made during a press conference in Beirut as a delegation from Hamas, t...
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US has been holding up several weapons shipments to Israel for 2 weeks, source says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has been holding up several shipment of weapons to Israel for at least two weeks, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Politico, which broke the news, cited a U.S. offic...
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Colombia prosecutors weigh immunity for ex-officials in government corruption case
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - Two former officials of Colombia's National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) have requested immunity in exchange for their cooperation with prosecutors investigating a corruption scandal, the attorne...
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US seeks labor dispute panel over Atento facility in Mexico, USTR says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has called for United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement panel to review a labor dispute at a facility operated by Atento Servicios in Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo, Mexico, it said in a st...
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Brazil floods death toll rises to 90, dozens still stranded
By Amanda Perobelli and Leonardo Benansatto ELDORADO DO SUL, Brazil (Reuters) - Rescuers rushed to evacuate people stranded by devastating floods across the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul on Tuesday, with 90 reported dead and despera...
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Biden to condemn antisemitism, praise free speech at Holocaust remembrance
By Trevor Hunnicutt and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S. President Joe Biden arrives at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to honor 6 million Jews killed eight decades ago, his message will be as much about the present as the past. Biden wi...
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Security guard wounded in shooting at rapper Drake's Toronto mansion, CBC reports
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Toronto police are investigating a shooting at Canadian rapper Drake's mansion that left a security guard badly injured, CBC News reported on Tuesday, citing a source. The shooting happened around 2:10 a.m. (0610 GMT), and early ...
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US soldier detained in Russia travelled through China without clearance- Army
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier who has been detained in Russia travelled to the Russian city of Vladivostok through China without clearance from the military, the U.S. Army said on Tuesday. The soldier, who the Army identified as Staff Serge...
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Chinese election meddling could undermine Canada democracy, says spy agency
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Persistent Chinese election meddling has the potential to undermine Canadian democracy, Canada's main spy agency said on Tuesday in the latest official warning about clandestine activity by Beijing. The Canadian Security Intellig...
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Russia puts veteran journalist in pre-trial detention for 'justifying terrorism'
(Reuters) - Veteran Russian journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova was placed in pre-trial detention for two months by a Moscow court on Tuesday on suspicion of "justifying terrorism", her son said. Kevorkova, 65, is a war correspondent who has reported ext...
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Stormy Daniels: Woman at center of Trump hush money trial is porn star-turned-ghostbuster
By Luc Cohen and Julia Harte (Reuters) - Adult film star Stormy Daniels has built a lucrative business empire around her alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Donald Trump and earned legions of fans for her breezy retorts to those who cast her as an i...
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Mid-level Israeli team to head to Cairo to assess Hamas position, Israeli official says
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A team of mid-ranking Israeli officials will travel to Cairo in coming hours to assess whether Hamas can be persuaded to shift on its latest ceasefire offer, a senior Israeli official said, reiterating the curr...
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Indian vote body tells X to remove Modi party video targeting Muslims, opposition
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Election Commission directed social media platform X on Tuesday to take down a video post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party after an opposition complaint that it promoted enmity among economically weaker groups. ...
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UK and allies sanction Russian leader of LockBit cybercrime gang
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain, the U.S. and Australia have sanctioned a senior Russian leader of the cybercrime gang LockBit, the British government said on Tuesday. Dmitry Khoroshev will face asset freezes and travel bans after being identified as on...
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German finance minister stalls pension reform in budget wrangling, source says
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner has abruptly blocked a pension reform package from reaching cabinet, arguing that the spending demands of the labour ministry were excessive, a source said on Tuesday, confirming earlier ...
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'Tsar' Putin tells the West: Russia will talk only on equal terms
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin, honoured like a Russian tsar at his swearing-in for a new six-year presidential term, had a double-edged message for the West: the Kremlin is ready to talk but Russia is girding for victory in...
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UK Labour seeks to thwart Sunak over living-standards comeback
By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour Party on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government of being out of touch with reality by signalling that voters will soon feel the benefit from the end of a recession...
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Europe must increase defence capabilities to be safe, says Poland's Tusk
WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that in order for Europe to avoid conflicts and be safe it must increase its defence capabilities, and he repeated his call for the construction of a common European air defence s...
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Ukraine catches Russian agents plotting Zelenskiy assassination, SBU says
(Reuters) - Ukraine's SBU State Security Service said it had caught Russian agents within the Ukrainian state guard service plotting the assassination of the president and other senior governmental officials. "Counterintelligence and SBU investigat...
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Czech court removes surgery requirement for gender transition
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Constitutional Court has struck down a legal requirement for transgender people to undergo surgery before they are able to officially complete their transition, the court said on Tuesday. The move brings the central Eur...
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Payments in focus as prosecutors make their case in Trump hush money trial
By Jack Queen, Luc Cohen and Andy Sullivan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Donald Trump's criminal trial are expected to call more witnesses on Tuesday as they build out their argument that he was responsible for illegally covering up a hush mo...
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Moldova says it won't obstruct Russian gas flows to its breakaway region
By Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO (Reuters) - Moldova will not obstruct the supply of Russian gas to its breakaway Transdniestria region after a transit deal with Ukraine expires this year, the Moldovan energy minister said on Tuesday. Kyiv has no plans to...
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