At least 15 injured in Russian strike on high-rise in Ukraine's Kharkiv
(Reuters) - A Russian air attack on Kharkiv city centre in Ukraine hit a high-rise residential building, injuring at least 15 people, including two children, local officials said on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear what kind of weapon was used...
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Citadel's Griffin wants to know Trump's running mate before deciding to donate
LONDON (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Kenneth Griffin has not donated money to President Donald Trump's election campaign but will wait to see who the former U.S. leader picks as his running mate, he told attendees at the Qatar Economic Forum in ...
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South Africa's health insurance law set to face legal challenges
By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's main opposition party, joined by some labour and business groups, said on Tuesday it would go to court to fight a bill aimed at providing universal health coverage, which President Cyril Ram...
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G7 to discuss global trade risks after US tariffs on China
ROME (Reuters) - The Group of Seven (G7) major democracies meeting in Italy next week will discuss the risk of fragmentation in global trade after "very tough" tariffs imposed by the United States against China, Italian Economy Minister Giancarlo G...
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Russia says U.S. ban on Russian nuclear fuel will harm global market
By Anastasia Lyrchikova MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Tuesday that a U.S. ban on Russian nuclear fuel was discriminatory political move that would undermine the global market for enriched uranium but said it ...
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Palestinian truckers fear for safety after aid convoy for Gaza wrecked
HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian hauliers said on Tuesday they feared for the security of aid convoys to Gaza, a day after Israeli protesters wrecked trucks carrying humanitarian supplies bound for the enclave, which is facing a severe hun...
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Roman Polanski acquitted by French court in defamation trial
By Louise Dalmasso and Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) - A French court on Tuesday acquitted film director Roman Polanski of defaming British actress Charlotte Lewis after she accused him of raping her when she was a teenager. Lewis, 56, alleged ...
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Explainer-Gaza death toll: how many Palestinians has Israel's campaign killed
(Reuters) - Palestinian health authorities say Israel's ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 35,000 people, mostly civilians, and driven most of the enclave's 2.3 million people from their homes. The war began on Oct. 7 when Hamas m...
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Taiwan-China tensions ratchet up week before presidential inauguration
By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan reported Chinese forces were carrying out another "combat patrol" near the island on Tuesday, including sending aircraft across the Taiwan Strait's sensitive median line, as tensions rise a week before a n...
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Poland to boost intelligence spending due to Russian threat, says PM
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will allocate an additional 100 million zlotys ($25.30 million) to boost its intelligence services, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday, as he warned of a rising threat from Russia. Poland says its place as a distri...
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Two French prison guards killed, inmate escapes in ambush; manhunt launched
PARIS (Reuters) - At least two French prison guards were shot dead and three others seriously injured on Tuesday after heavily armed men ambushed a prison van to free an inmate, French police said, triggering a major manhunt. The orchestrated attac...
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Belousov says Russia must win in Ukraine while minimising troop losses
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's main task is to achieve victory on the battlefield in Ukraine with the minimal loss of troops, Andrei Belousov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's nominee for defence minister, said on Tuesday. Russia should employ all a...
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Several people feared trapped in collapsed building in Nairobi
(Reuters) - Several people were feared trapped under the rubble of a building that collapsed as it was being demolished in the Mathare neighbourhood of Kenya's capital Nairobi on Tuesday, the Kenya Red Cross said. (Reporting by George Obulutsa; Wr...
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World Court to hold hearings over Israel's Rafah attacks
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The U.N.'s International Court of Justice will hold hearings on Thursday and Friday to discuss new emergency measures sought by South Africa over Israel's attacks on Rafah during the war in Gaza, the court...
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Germany needs strong military recruitment, Scholz says in conscription debate
By Rachel More and Andreas Rinke BERLIN/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Germany must find ways to convince people to sign up for a career in the military, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday, as the country looks at conscription as a possible way to boos...
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Georgian lawmakers brawl as parliament set to pass 'foreign agent' bill
By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian lawmakers brawled in parliament on Tuesday during a debate on the third and final reading of a bill on "foreign agents" that has plunged the South Caucasus country into an extended political crisis and sp...
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Kremlin critic Kara-Murza loses his appeal against treason sentence
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza against his 25-year jail sentence on treason and other charges, according to a Reuters reporter at the court on Tuesday. Moscow-born Kara-Murza, ...
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Britain summons Chinese ambassador over Hong Kong spying charges -Telegraph
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's foreign ministry has summoned the Chinese ambassador after three men were charged with spying for Hong Kong, the Telegraph newspaper reported on Tuesday. The ambassador will be challenged by officials over the allegatio...
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Rescuers search for three miners after tremor in Polish coal mine
WARSAW (Reuters) - Rescuers are searching for three miners missing after an overnight tremor caused a partial collapse in a section of the Myslowice-Wesola mine in southern Poland, authorities said on Tuesday. The tremor occurred 870 meters undergr...
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Trump's former fixer Cohen to resume testifying about hush money deal with porn star
By Jack Queen, Luc Cohen and Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen will resume testifying on Tuesday at the Republican presidential candidate's criminal trial, a day after telling jurors that Trump personally auth...
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Israeli forces back in old Gaza battlegrounds as doubts over war aims grow
By James Mackenzie and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) - Seven months into the war, Israeli troops are back fighting in the north of the Gaza Strip, in areas that were supposed to have been cleared months ago, highlighting growing quest...
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China poses genuine and increasing cyber risk to UK, spy agency head says
BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - China poses a genuine and increasing cyber risk to the United Kingdom, the head of British spy agency GCHQ said on Tuesday, adding that while Russia and Iran represented an immediate threat, Beijing was an epoch-defi...
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Talks over Gaza ceasefire at stalemate after Rafah operation, Qatar PM says
DOHA (Reuters) - Talks over a ceasefire in Gaza have reached a stalemate due to Israel's operations in Rafah, Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said on Tuesday. Israeli operations in Rafah, which started this month, ha...
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Russian Defence Ministry's head of HR detained for bribery - investigators
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The head of personnel management at Russia's Defence Ministry has been arrested on suspicion of bribery, the Investigative Committee, which handles serious crimes, said on Tuesday. The committee said Yuri Kuznetsov was suspected of "r...
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Israeli tanks push into Gaza's Rafah, as displaced civilians flee again
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli tanks forged deeper into eastern Rafah, reaching some residential districts on Tuesday, stepping up an offensive in the southern border city where more than a million people had been sheltering after b...
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