Spain will not authorise calling of ships carrying weapons for Israel
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain will not authorise ships carrying weapons for Israel to call at its ports, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Friday, after the country refused to let a ship call at the southeastern port of Cartagena. The ship wa...
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Hugs but not the full socialist-era kiss for Putin, Xi in Beijing
BEIJING (Reuters) - A vaunted 'new era' of strategic partnership between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his counterpart Xi Jinping begun in Beijing on Thursday may not exactly have been sealed with a kiss, but it did lead to rare hugs between...
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Foreigners sell Vietnam securities amid political turbulence, data show
By Francesco Guarascio and Phuong Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) - Foreign investors have reduced by nearly $2 billion their securities holdings in Vietnam's main stock market since early 2023 despite the bourse's positive performance, with the largest out...
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French police 'neutralised' armed person who tried to set fire to synagogue in Rouen - Darmanin
PARIS (Reuters) - French police officers in Rouen 'neutralised' an armed individual who was intent on setting fire to the town's synagogue, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Friday. The incident occurred early on Friday morning, Darmanin sa...
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Slovak doctors to discuss transporting PM Fico to Bratislava on Monday - local media
(Reuters) - Slovak doctors will meet on Monday to assess Prime Minister Robert Fico's health and discuss the possibility of transporting him from Banska Bystrica to the capital Bratislava, local media reported on Friday without citing sources. Fico...
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Russia says its diplomacy with the West is in crisis management mode, says TASS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's diplomacy with the West is in crisis management mode and is focused on trying to ensure that tensions do not spill over into a large-scale conflict, the TASS news agency on Friday reported a top diplomat as saying. TASS ...
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Russian oil refinery fire after drone attack contained
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Authorities have managed to contain a fire at Russia's Tuapse oil refinery that broke out after a Ukrainian drone attack, officials in the Krasnodar region said. According to preliminary information, there are no casualties, they...
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North Korea fires ballistic missile, reports Yonhap
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast, Yonhap news reported, citing South Korea's military. (Reporting by Jack Kim; Editing by Ed Davies)
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Ukraine military says it downs all 20 drones launched by Russia
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces shot down all 20 drones Russia dispatched in an overnight attack, the Ukrainian military said on Friday. The drones were shotdown over the regions of Kharkiv, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Odesa and Mykolaiv. Russian forces...
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China to let local govt officials buy affordable housing at 'reasonable' prices
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will allow local government authorities to buy some homes at "reasonable" prices to provide affordable housing, Vice Premier He Lifeng told an online meeting on housing policy on Friday, the official news agency, Xinhua, s...
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Suspected gunshots near Israeli embassy in Stockholm prompt police cordon
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish police have detained several people and cordoned off a large area in Stockholm after a patrol heard suspected gunshots, they said on Friday, with the Israeli embassy located in the closed-off area. "A police patrol at...
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Kenyan lawyers ask court to hold government in contempt for planned police deployment to Haiti
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan lawyers and their opposition party have asked a court to hold the government in contempt for a planned police deployment to Haiti, their filing to the court showed. (Reporting by George Obulutsa; Editing by Christopher C...
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Four deaths confirmed from severe storm that ravaged Houston
(Reuters) - A severe storm packing hurricane-force winds pummeled Houston on Thursday, killing at least four people, blowing windows out of high-rise buildings and leaving some 800,000 homes without power as much of the city was plunged into darkne...
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Chinese state-backed company to launch space tourism flights by 2028
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese commercial space company CAS Space announced its "space tourism vehicle" will first fly in 2027 and travel to the edge of space in 2028, state media reported on Friday. The announcement comes just days after Jeff Bezos-b...
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'Massive' French police deployment arrives to secure New Caledonia
By Kirsty Needham and Camille Raynaud SYDNEY/PARIS (Reuters) - French police reinforcements have started arriving in New Caledonia as part of a massive operation to regain control of the capital Noumea, the top French official in the Pacific island...
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Putin to push growing Moscow-Beijing trade in China's northeast
By Bernard Orr BEIJING (Reuters) - After sealing pledges of a "new era" of strategic partnership with China's Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday is set to highlight the growing importance of trade near the Russian border in Chin...
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Exclusive-Vietnam forfeits billions of dollars in foreign aid amid anti-graft freeze, document says
By Francesco Guarascio and Khanh Vu HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam forfeited at least $2.5 billion in foreign aid over the last three years and may lose another $1 billion because of administrative paralysis, the United Nations, the World Bank and Weste...
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Ukrainian drone attack kills mother, son in Russia's Belgorod region, governor says
(Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone strike killed a mother and her 4-year-old son who were travelling in a car in Russia's southern Belgorod region, the regional governor said early on Friday. Vyacheslav Gladkov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, sa...
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Tracking China's 'grey zone' balloon flights over Taiwan
By Jackie Gu and Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) - About a month before Taiwan's January presidential election, China began sending intruders over the Taiwan Strait: more than 100 balloons, some of which passed through the island's airspace or busy, Tai...
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Israeli hostage to UN: We can't normalize this unprecedented terror
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Shoshan Haran, her daughter and two grandchildren were taken hostage by Hamas militants in Israel on Oct. 7. On Thursday, Haran recalled the effects of 50 days in captivity on her three-year-old grandd...
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Panama weighs more checkpoints in treacherous jungle increasingly crossed by migrants
By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama's next government is considering erecting new checkpoints along a stretch of thick jungle on its southern border that has become a treacherous part of the journey for growing masses of U.S.-bound migra...
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Senegalese prime minister criticises French military bases on territory
DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal's prime minister Ousmane Sonko raised the possibility of closing French military bases in the West African country on Thursday in a wide-ranging speech that also touched on the euro-backed CFA franc currency, oil and gas d...
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North Korea leader's sister denies arms exchange with Russia, KCNA says
By Ju-min Park and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, again denied arms exchanges with Russia, state media KCNA reported on Friday. The U.S. and South Korea accused North Korea of transferri...
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Long air raid alert lifted in Kharkiv after drone strikes, missile warning
(Reuters) - A protracted air raid alert in most of Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region was lifted early on Friday after officials reported Russian drone strikes and a missile warning in the city of Kharkiv. Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said ...
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US exploring limited easing of sanctions on Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler
By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department is exploring a limited easing of U.S. sanctions on Israeli mining magnate Dan Gertler to facilitate his exit from the Democratic Republic of Congo, a U.S. official said on Thu...
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