California police flatten pro-Palestinian camp at UCLA, arrest protesters
By Lisa Richwine and Omar Younis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of helmeted police swarmed the site of a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California at Los Angeles early on Thursday, arresting defiant demonstrators and dismantling the...
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Britain's Cameron, in Kyiv, promises Ukraine aid for 'as long as it takes'
By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary David Cameron promised three billion pounds ($3.74 billion) of annual military aid for Ukraine for "as long as it takes" on Thursday, adding that London had no objection to the weapons being ...
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European court backs Italy in Greek statue dispute with Getty Museum
ROME (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled in favour of Italy's long-standing demand that the Getty Villa Museum in the United States return an ancient Greek statue which Rome claims was smuggled out of the country...
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Convicted leader of Greek far-right Golden Dawn party released on parole
ATHENS (Reuters) - The convicted leader and founder of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party, Nikos Mihaloliakos, has been released from prison on parole, a Greek police source and state television ERT said on Thursday. Mihaloliakos, 66, and other m...
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Xi's trip to Europe may lay bare West's divisions over China strategy
By Laurie Chen and Michel Rose BEIJING/PARIS (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping heads to Europe for the first time in five years next week in a visit that may lay bare European divisions over trade with Beijing and how the continent positions...
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India deports Myanmar refugees who fled 2021 coup
By Tora Agarwala GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - India on Thursday deported the first group of Myanmar refugees who had sought shelter after a 2021 military coup, a top state minister said, following weeks of efforts that were hampered by fighting betw...
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Residents fear for safety as Indonesia's Mount Ruang volcano erupts
TAGULANDANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Antelmus Paulus, 67, is in despair after the eruption on Tuesday of Indonesia's Ruang volcano rendered his home on Tagulandang island uninhabitable and prompted authorities to evacuate more than 12,000 people. Ant...
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Paris' Sciences Po school rejects protesters' demand to review ties with Israel
PARIS (Reuters) - Paris' Sciences Po university has rejected demands by protesters to set up a working group to review its relations with Israeli universities, its interim director Jean Basseres told reporters on Thursday, following a townhall with...
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Awaiting US aid, Ukraine's gunners fire sparingly at advancing Russians
By Dan Peleschuk DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) - The soldiers manning a U.S.-supplied M777 howitzer close to the front in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region have seen the enemy advance in recent weeks, slowly but surely, and wish they could do mo...
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EU official calls Georgia's 'foreign agents' bill unacceptable
TBILISI (Reuters) - A senior European Union official warned the Georgian government on Thursday that its proposed legislation on "foreign agents" was unacceptable and would be an obstacle to the country's hopes of joining the EU if adopted in its c...
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Palestinian Embassy seeks temporary status for Gazans who entered Egypt during war
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) - The Palestinian Embassy in Egypt is seeking temporary residency permits for tens of thousands of people who have arrived from Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas, which it says would e...
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Hungary's media-savvy newcomer aims to disrupt political status quo
By Anita Komuves BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Peter Magyar was taking selfies with supporters in front of a busy Budapest market hall one Saturday morning last month when he asked them to give him a minute. He took out his phone, started a live Facebook vi...
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Taiwan reports second Chinese 'combat patrol' in a week
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's defence ministry on Thursday said that China had carried out a "joint combat readiness patrol" near the island for the second time in a week. Over the past four years, China's military has significantly ramped up its act...
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Japan town blocks view of Mt Fuji at photo spot to stop crowds
By Akiko Okamoto FUJI-KAWAGUCHIKO, Japan (Reuters) - Officials in a Japanese town are erecting a 2.5-meter (8.2 ft) high barrier to block a view of Mount Fuji and obstruct a photo spot that has been attracting so many visitors they have become a nu...
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Guerrilla pseudo-state complicates the search for peace in Colombia
By Luis Jaime Acosta YARI PLAINS, Colombia (Reuters) - A group of children holding red, yellow and blue balloons - the colors of Colombia's flag - run to the playground of a newly-opened school built and paid for by the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) g...
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China travel surges for May holiday but consumers remain wary
(This May 1 story has been refiled to say 'new cities' instead of 'lower-tier cities' in paragraph 13) By Sophie Yu and Alessandro Diviggiano (Reuters) - Travel by rail and car across China surged on Wednesday, the first day of a major public holid...
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Rebuilding bombed Gaza homes may take 80 years, UN says
GENEVA (Reuters) - Rebuilding homes in the Gaza Strip could drag into the next century if the pace follows the trend of previous conflicts, according to a U.N. report released on Thursday. Nearly seven months of Israeli bombardment have caused bill...
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Vietnam parliament approves speaker's resignation, state media says
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's legislature on Thursday approved the resignation of National Assembly chairman Vuong Dinh Hue, state media reported, the latest top official to step down amid an intensifying anti-graft crackdown by the ruling Communist ...
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Israeli war cabinet to meet on hostages, Rafah plan on Thursday
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Top Israeli ministers will convene on Thursday to discuss a proposed Gaza truce to free some hostages held by Hamas, as well as prospects for an army sweep of the southern tip of the enclave packed with displaced Palestinians,...
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Trump hush-money trial judge to weigh more fines for defying gag order
By Jack Queen, Jody Godoy and Andy Sullivan NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York prosecutors on Thursday will ask the judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial to impose more fines on the former U.S. president for violating a gag order tha...
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SNP lawmaker Swinney enters race to become Scotland's new leader
LONDON (Reuters) -Scottish National Party (SNP) lawmaker John Swinney said on Thursday that he would run in the contest to succeed outgoing leader Humza Yousaf as Scotland's first minister. "I intend to stand for election as leader of the Scottish Nati...
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Taliban plan regional energy trade hub with Russian oil in mind
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte Greenfield KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban has agreed with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to build a logistics hub in western Afghanistan aimed at making the war-torn nation a major logistics point for regional expo...
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Soccer star's murder highlights South Africa's crime problem as election nears
By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - In the South African township where Luke Fleurs grew up, some friends joined gangs before they reached high school age, but Fleurs found another path: he was so brilliant at soccer that he rose to be a prof...
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EU offers 1 billion euros in economic, security support to Lebanon
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The European Union has offered Lebanon a financial package of 1 billion euros ($1.07 billion) to support its faltering economy and its security forces, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday during a...
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South Korea raises diplomatic alert levels citing North Korea threats
By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's foreign ministry on Thursday raised the terrorism alert level for five diplomatic offices in the region citing intelligence that North Korea may attempt to harm its officials. The five locations include...
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