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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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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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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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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