Migrant charity defies Italy over surveillance plane restrictions
ROME (Reuters) - A German rescue charity on Wednesday launched a fresh aerial surveillance mission from Italy to track down migrant boats in difficulty in the central Mediterranean, defying restrictions by Italian authorities. The Italian Civil Avi...
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Billionaires Ambani and Adani dragged into India's election rhetoric
By Shivam Patel NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and election rival Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi traded barbs about campaign funding on Wednesday, with both sides accusing the other of taking money from top industrial...
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Presidential candidate RFK Jr said he had a brain worm in 2012, New York Times reports
(Reuters) - Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a brain abnormality that he said doctors attributed to a parasite in his head, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. Citing a 12-year-old deposition, the Times said K...
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Main maternity hospital in Rafah stops admitting patients
LONDON (Reuters) - The main maternity hospital in the Gaza Strip's crowded southern city of Rafah has stopped admitting patients, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) told Reuters on Wednesday. The UNFPA told Reuters that the hospital, Emirat...
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Northern Ireland police obtained reporters' phone data, tribunal hears
By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's police force regularly obtained reporters' telephone billing data to find out if police officers had been leaking information, lawyers representing two investigative journalists told a London tribu...
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Death toll from heavy rains in Brazil hits 100
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The death toll from heavy rains that swamped Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state in recent days has climbed to 100, local civil defense said on Wednesday, adding that 128 people were still missing. (Reporting by Andre Romani and...
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Philippine military chief accuses China of 'malign influence effort'
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' military chief accused China of a "malign influence effort" on Wednesday, after a local newspaper reported a Filipino vice admiral had made a deal with Beijing to de-escalate tensions in the South China Sea. The ...
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Tamils faced torture in Sri Lanka long after war, rights group says
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's security forces abducted men and women from the ethnic Tamil minority and tortured them in custody long after the end of a bloody civil war in the South Asian island nation, a human rights group ...
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Estonia summons Russian embassy chief over GPS jamming
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Estonia's foreign ministry has summoned the head of the Russian embassy in Tallinn to protest the jamming of GPS signals, the Baltic country's Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said on X on Wednesday. "Today we summoned Russian c...
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Only three days of fuel for health services in south of Gaza, says WHO
LONDON (Reuters) -There is only enough fuel to run health services in the south of Gaza for three more days, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have sought refuge in the south of Gaza from combat furt...
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Britain says it will expel Russian defence attache
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Wednesday it would expel Russia's defence attache, remove diplomatic status from some properties and limit the length of Russian diplomatic visas. Home Secretary James Cleverly said the action followed a pattern o...
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EU Commission eyeing exemptions for 'forever chemicals' ban, Welt reports
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Commission is planning to allow for wide-ranging exemptions from a proposed ban on substances known as PFAS, or "forever chemicals", to protect key industries, German newspaper Welt reported on Wednesday. Citing a...
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Maltese central bank governor, deputy PM face fraud charges
VALLETTA (Reuters) - Malta's attorney general has filed charges of fraud and misappropriation of funds against Central Bank of Malta Governor Edward Scicluna and Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne, court documents show. More serious corruption char...
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Gaza war cools Israel's once red-hot business ties with UAE
By Emily Rose and Alexander Cornwell JERUSALEM/DUBAI (Reuters) - The war in Gaza has cooled Israeli business activity with the United Arab Emirates, with the once-celebrated relationship now conducted away from public scrutiny amid anger in the Ara...
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Israel pessimistic on Gaza truce talks, but delegation remains in Cairo
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel sees no sign of a breakthrough in Egyptian-mediated talks on a truce with Hamas that would free some Gaza hostages, but is keeping its delegation of mid-level negotiators in Cairo for now, an Israeli official said on We...
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Five takeaways from Stormy Daniels' testimony at Donald Trump's trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stormy Daniels took the witness stand on Tuesday at Donald Trump's criminal trial and described in lurid detail her alleged 2006 sexual encounter with the former U.S. president. Trump has pleaded not guilty to Manh...
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Poland says it was targeted by hacking attack from Russia-linked group APT28
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland was targeted by a hacking attack from Russia-linked group APT28 this week, the state-run National Research Institute (NASK) said on Wednesday. (Reporting by Alan Charlish, Pawel Florkiewicz)
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South Africa's Ramaphosa calls opposition flag-burning ad 'treasonous'
By Tannur Anders JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa described as "treasonous" a campaign ad by an opposition party that depicts a burning national flag, as antagonism between political parties rose three weeks before a...
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Thai PM says cannabis to be re-listed as narcotic by end of 2024
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said on Wednesday that cannabis would be re-listed as a narcotic by end of 2024, in a stunning U-turn for the country two years after it became the first in the region to decriminalise its re...
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Russian billionaire Usmanov's sister Ismailova loses bid to overturn EU sanctions
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Gulbakhor Ismailova, the sister of Uzbek-Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, lost a legal battle on Wednesday to overturn EU sanctions placed on her after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The EU's Court of Justice said in a ...
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Berlin senator struck on head as concern grows over attacks on politicians
BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin senator and former city mayor Franziska Giffey became the latest victim in a string of attacks on German politicians when a man struck her from behind with a heavy object in a local library, according to a police statement...
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Boeing cargo plane lands in Istanbul without front landing gear, no casualties
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A FedEx Airlines Boeing cargo plane landed at Istanbul Airport on Wednesday without the front landing gear deployed and managed to stay on the runway, Turkey's transport ministry said, adding that there were no casualties. The ...
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Four arrested for duping young Indian men into fighting for Russia in Ukraine
By Sakshi Dayal NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's federal police said four people linked to a network of human traffickers have been arrested, accused of luring young men to Russia with the promise of lucrative jobs or university admissions only to for...
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EU court says European parliament cannot deny FOI request about convicted lawmaker
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's General Court ruled on Wednesday that the European Parliament could not deny a Freedom of Information request for documents sought by transparency activists about an unidentified member of the EU Parliament...
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Hong Kong court bans protest anthem 'Glory to Hong Kong'
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's appeal court on Wednesday granted an application by the government to ban a protest anthem named "Glory to Hong Kong", overturning a lower court judgement last year that had rejected the government's bid citing fre...
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