Chad opposition leader Masra claims victory in May 6 presidential election
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chadian opposition leader Succes Masra on Thursday claimed he won the Central African nation's May 6 presidential election in the first round. (Reporting by Bate Felix; Editing by Anait Miridzhanian)
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Analysis-Behind Biden's Israel weapons pause: a defiant Netanyahu, a tense phone call
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden spent months urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to protect Gaza civilians, but the U.S. decision to pause some military aid to Israel was linked directly to a pointed ph...
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Zelenskiy dismisses head of state guard after two members accused of assassination plot
(Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy dismissed the head of the state guards on Thursday, two days after two of its members were accused of plotting to assassinate the president. Zelenskiy issued a decree dismissing Serhiy Rud. No suc...
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Venezuela president's son says country is open to paying $10 billion debt to China
By Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela is open to paying its $10 billion debt to China, lawmaker Nicolas Maduro Guerra, son of President Nicolas Maduro, told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. Venezuela's relationship with China is "foo...
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Cuba may import sugar, rum industry pressed amid disastrous harvest
By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - The Cuban sugar harvest is winding down at the lowest tonnage since 1900, forcing the government to import and putting more pressure on its domestic rum, soft drink and pharmaceutical industries, according to offici...
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Major Rafah operation will not defeat Hamas, White House says
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden believes that a major Rafah operation by Israel will not advance the country's objective of defeating the Hamas Palestinian militant group in Gaza, the White House said...
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Chinese companies hit with US trade restrictions over spy balloon incident
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration added dozens of Chinese entities to a trade restriction list on Thursday, including some for allegedly supporting the spy balloon that flew over the United States last year, heightening tensions between Be...
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Ukraine drone hits Russian oil facility a 'record' 1,500 km away, source says
By Tom Balmforth LONDON (Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone struck a major oil processing plant in Russia's Bashkiria region on Thursday from some 1,500 km (932 miles) away, a Kyiv intelligence source said, its longest-range such attack since the start o...
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Who are Israel's main weapons suppliers and who has halted exports?
(Corrects date in 7th paragraph to 2023) (Reuters) -The United States has suspended a shipment of weapons to Israel, including heavy, bunker-busting bombs Israeli forces have used in their war against Hamas militants in Gaza that has killed nearly 35,0...
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Twin decisions from Colombian courts deal blows to Petro's government
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's Supreme Court has ordered the country's interior minister to testify in a corruption probe and the Constitutional Court struck down the creation of the equality ministry in a double blow for the government of President...
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Donald Trump's youngest son Barron to represent Florida at Republican convention
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's youngest son, Barron Trump, will be one of the delegates representing Florida at the Republican National Convention in July, a notable move given that he has kept largely out of the public eye ...
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Turkey says it is not easing Israel export ban
By Ece Toksabay and Burcu Karakas ANKARA (Reuters) - Israeli claims of Ankara easing its trade ban with Israel are "absolutely fictional and have nothing to do with reality," Turkish Trade Minister Omer Bolat said on Thursday, as Ankara introduced...
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Israeli defence minister tells 'friends and enemies' Israel will achieve war aims
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told Israel's "enemies and friends" on Wednesday that it would do whatever necessary achieve its war aims in Gaza and the north, in an apparent response to U.S. pressure to halt its operation in R...
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Abortion rights activists heckle Italy's family minister at conference
By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Protesters on Thursday heckled Italy's family minister over her critical position on abortion rights, forcing her to abandon a speech at a conference on reversing the country's declining birth rate. When Eugenia Ro...
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Putin says there is 'nothing unusual' about tactical nuclear weapons drill
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that there was nothing unusual in a planned exercise involving the practice deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in southern Russia along with ally Belarus....
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As Rafah offensive looms, Palestinians fear dispossession again
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Mohammad Salem CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) - As Israeli forces mass on the outskirts of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, Palestinians fear another "Nakba", when 700,000 of them were permanently driven from their homes at the creat...
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Stormy Daniels to face tough questions from Trump lawyers at trial
By Jack Queen, Luc Cohen and Andy Sullivan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Porn star Stormy Daniels will face tough questioning from Donald Trump's lawyers on Thursday as they try to dismantle the credibility of a woman whose story of a 2006 sexual encounter ...
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Panama Papers law firm co-founder Ramon Fonseca dies in hospital, lawyer says
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Ramon Fonseca, who co-founded the now defunct law firm linked to the Panama Papers scandal, died overnight, his lawyer told Reuters on Thursday morning. (Reporting by Elida Moreno; Editing by Christina Fincher)
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Nigerian journalist detained over a week under cybercrime law, employer says
ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian investigative journalist has spent more than a week in police detention without being brought to court for allegedly violating the country's cybercrime laws, his employer said, in a case that has sparked criticism from ...
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Ukraine's popular former army chief Zaluzhnyi appointed ambassador to UK
(Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday appointed former army chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, who led Ukraine's defence in the first two years of Moscow's full-scale invasion, as Kyiv's ambassador to the United Kingdom. The decree was publis...
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Two Russian online film distributors charged under 'LGBT propaganda' law
(Reuters) - Two Russian online film distributors, including a company owned by Nasdaq-listed internet giant Yandex, have been charged with offences under the country's so-called "LGBT propaganda" law, a notice on a Moscow court's website said. Russ...
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UK system of arms exports to Israel not the same as U.S., Cameron says
LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign Secretary David Cameron described Britain's system and scale of arms exports to Israel as completely different from those in the United States, saying the sales it licences were relatively small and policed by strict proc...
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Putin agrees to withdraw Russian forces from various Armenian regions, says Ifax
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has agreed to withdraw Russian forces and border guards from various parts of Armenia, Putin's spokesman was cited as saying on Thursday by the Interfax news agency. Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Niko...
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China's Xi Jinping to talk Ukraine, investment on last European stop Hungary
By Anita Komuves BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian soldiers on horseback joined President Tamas Sulyok to give Chinese President Xi Jinping a warm welcome in the grounds of Budapest's spectacular Buda Castle on Monday on the third and final stop on Xi...
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Virginia school board considers restoring Confederate names to schools
By Julia Harte (Reuters) - A U.S. school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, will vote on Thursday on whether to restore previously removed Confederate names to two schools, potentially becoming the first community in the nation to reinstate such...
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