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NewsIsrael kills four people in Gaza, including a child, medics say
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO, July 15 (Reuters) - An Israeli airstrike killed a man, his wife and their six-year-old daughter in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Palestinian health officials said as talks
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India-UK trade pact takes effect, promising tariff cuts and services boost
By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI, July 15 (Reuters) - India and Britain's comprehensive trade pact took effect on Wednesday, cutting tariffs on thousands of goods and widening access for services firms and
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Iran threatens to block more vital seaways as Trump orders renewed Iran blockade
CAIRO/WASHINGTON/BEIRUT, July 15 (Reuters) - Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to close "all other export corridors that benefit the U. and its allies", Iranian media reported, after Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz and the U.
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Ugandan farmer Mukiibi steers Slow Food beyond its Italian roots
ROME, July 15 (Reuters) - When Carlo Petrini founded the Slow Food movement in Rome in 1986 to protest the arrival of Italy's first McDonald's, Edward Mukiibi was not yet born. Four decades later, the Ugandan farmer and agronomist is at the helm of the fair food advocacy group and hopes to steer it beyond its Italian roots, while preserving the legacy of its charismatic founder, who died in May.
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Indian missing after attack on ship off Oman coast is dead, family says
NEW DELHI, July 15 (Reuters) - An Indian national who went missing after an attack on commercial vessel GFS Galaxy off the coast of Oman is dead, his father-in-law said on Wednesday.
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New Zealand detects first H5N1 bird flu case, starts vaccination of endangered species
WELLINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - New Zealand reported its first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu after a migratory seabird found on a beach near the capital, Wellington, tested positive, Biosecurity
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Lithuania says Russia is planning attacks on infrastructure
VILNIUS, July 15 (Reuters) - Lithuania has intelligence that Russia is planning attacks on infrastructure, and security around energy and transport sites will be tightened as a precaution, President
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G7 urges halt to attacks in Sudan's El-Obeid, calls for wider arms embargo
BERLIN, July 15 (Reuters) - G7 foreign ministers and the European Union's foreign policy chief on Wednesday urged Sudan's Rapid Support Forces and allied armed groups to stop all actions that could
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Factbox-Inside the cockpit: How Air India's Boeing Dreamliner flight ended in disaster
July 15 (Reuters) - India's air accident investigating body has prepared a cockpit voice recorder transcript and conducted a psychological autopsy and moved into the final stages of its probe into
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US expert on underground nuclear tests detained in China for 18 months
An American scientist who has studied underground nuclear tests has been detained in China for more than 18 months on spying charges, according to his supporters and a US lawmaker.
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Air India crash probe enters final stages after cockpit recorder, psychology reviews
By Arpan Chaturvedi and Abhijith Ganapavaram NEW DELHI, July 15 (Reuters) - India's aircraft accident investigating body has prepared a cockpit voice recorder transcript, conducted a psychological
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Malaysia says residents at tech commune run by ex-Coinbase exec have valid travel documents
By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR, July 15 (Reuters) - Malaysia's Immigration Department said on Wednesday that members of a "digital nomad" community run by U.S. investor Balaji Srinivasan had valid
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Death toll from Bangkok bar fire rises to 32 as 2 more die in hospital
Survivors and family members of victims of a deadly bar fire in Bangkok visited a nearby police station on Wednesday to seek compensation, gather belongings and share statements from the blaze. The fire, which broke out on Sunday night, killed at least 32 people and left more than 70 injured, 15 of whom are still in critical condition, according to the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.
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Death toll in Thai pub fire rises to 32, officials say, with dozens still in hospital
BANGKOK, July 15 (Reuters) - The death toll from an explosive fire at a Bangkok live music pub has risen to 32 after two people died from their injuries, the Police Hospital said on Wednesday, as
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Muslim man stabbed multiple times in Utah over his religion, police say
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - A man was arrested in Utah for stabbing a Muslim man multiple times and stated that he targeted the victim because of the victim's religion, police
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Former Obama counsel Kathryn Ruemmler to testify in Epstein probe
Kathryn Ruemmler, the former top lawyer at Goldman Sachs who was White House counsel to President Barack Obama, is set to face questioning before a House committee Wednesday about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Ruemmler is the latest prominent figure called before the House Oversight Committee as lawmakers investigate the network of powerful people connected with Epstein. The bipartisan inquiry has already included testimony from more than a dozen high-profile witnesses, including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and former President Bill Clinton, as lawmakers examine how Epstein's wealth and influence may have helped shield him from scrutiny.
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Asian shares rise after rally on Wall Street as data show US inflation slowing
Asian shares mostly rose Wednesday, tracking a rally on Wall Street following a report that showed U.S. inflation was not as bad last month as economists expected. Shares in computer chipmaker SK Hynix rose 9.4%, while those of Samsung Electronics surged 6.1%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged up 1.5% to 24,701.10, while the Shanghai Composite lost 0.2% to 3,957.79 after the Chinese government reported the economy expanded at a 4.3% annualized pace in April-June, slowing sharply from 5% in the first quarter of the year.
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Wildfires expose millions in the Midwest and Northeast US to dangerous smoke
Heavy smoke from several large wildfires blazing in Canada and Minnesota is expected to engulf large swaths of the Midwest and Northeast U.S. this week, exposing millions of people to dangerous air pollution. Minnesota officials issued an air quality alert from Tuesday through Friday for areas including the Twin Cities metro area, Alexandria and Two Harbors, with very heavy smoke expected across the state’s northeastern corner as large wildfires spread.
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Cambodian tycoon was landlord to Chinese scammers and human traffickers
By Poppy McPherson and Panu Wongcha-um O'SMACH, Cambodia/ BANGKOK, July 15 (Reuters) - A gambling empire controlled by a powerful Cambodian tycoon was the landlord of a compound that was used for
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Survivors and family members of victims of a deadly bar fire in Bangkok visited a nearby police station on Wednesday to seek compensation, gather belongings and share statements from the blaze. The fire, which broke out on Sunday night, killed at least 32 people and left more than 70 injured, 15 of whom are still in critical condition, according to the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.
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Tehran threatens to halt all Mideast energy exports after US reimposes its blockade on Iran
The U.S. military reimposed a naval blockade on Iran and intensified its airstrike campaign early Wednesday, hitting an Iranian army barracks and killing at least seven troops while wounding 260 people across the country, Iranian officials said. Days of retaliatory strikes across the Middle East by Iran and the U.S., and both nations’ attempts to assert control over the Strait of Hormuz, threaten to push the region back to all-out war. Seven of the dead came from the attack on the barracks in Iran's southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province.
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Iran-linked vessels pass through Hormuz ahead of US blockade
By Florence Tan SINGAPORE, July 15 (Reuters) - The number of vessels transiting through the Strait of Hormuz ticked up on Tuesday, with most of them linked to Iranian trade, before a U.S. blockade
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Nepal court jails 2 former ministers, 14 others over refugee scam
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, July 15 (Reuters) - A court in Nepal jailed two former government ministers after they were found guilty of forging documents to enable Nepali nationals to be resettled in
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Appeals court ends US oversight of Louisiana school system related to desegregation mandate
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ended a more than six-decade-old federal oversight of a Louisiana school system related to a desegregation mandate, a court
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US House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - The U.S.
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China's economy grew at a 4.3% annual pace in the 2nd quarter, slowest since late 2022
China’s economy slowed sharply to a 4.3% annualized pace of growth in the April-June quarter, the government said Wednesday, the weakest in over three years. China has largely shrugged off wider economic impacts from the Iran war as soaring energy prices pushed up global inflation. “This was the slowest growth in any quarter since the lockdown-impacted fourth quarter of 2022,” said Lynn Song, chief economist for Greater China at ING Bank in a note.
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One dead, 2 missing after boat with 19 aboard capsizes in San Francisco Bay
July 14 (Reuters) - One person died and two others were missing on Tuesday after a triple-deck pontoon boat with 19 people aboard capsized near Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, officials said.
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Trump resumes Iran port blockade and threatens strikes on energy targets
By Enas Alashray, Elwely Elwelly, Tala Ramadan and Kanishka Singh CAIRO/DUBAI/WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday reimposed a naval blockade of all Iranian ports and
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Tai chi practitioners seek balance and well-being in fast-paced Beijing
One arm raised and the other lowered, hundreds of people move every morning like birds spreading their wings at the heart of Beijing’s Temple of Heaven. It’s a movement in tai chi, a physical and philosophical practice developed more than 300 years ago that continues to resonate in China today. Ye first encountered tai chi in 2010.
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Brutal killing of 11-year-old highlights unrelenting sexual violence in India
By Tora Agarwala BARUIPUR, India, July 15 (Reuters) - On a Saturday evening this month, an 11-year-old girl left her home for a friend's birthday party in a small town in eastern India.
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This chaotic 2,000-pound seal has returned to sea – but leaves behind a conundrum
Without so much as a wave of his flipper, Neil the boisterous young elephant seal departed Tasmania this week, leaving behind a legion of fans – and questions about what happens when he gets even bigger.
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UK summons senior Iranian diplomat over alleged proxy attacks in Europe
July 14 () - Britain on Tuesday summoned Iran's most senior diplomat in London over what the UK government said was Iran's role in directing proxy groups to carry out attacks across Europe in recent months. Charge d'Affaires Ali Nasimfar was summoned to the foreign ministry over the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force allegedly directing a group to carry out attacks across Europe between March and May, the British Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
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US military will be out of Iraq by end of September, Iraqi prime minister and Pentagon say
The U.S. military will leave Iraq by the end of September, American and Iraqi officials said Tuesday, following a 23-year presence that started with the 2003 invasion against Saddam Hussein and ended with much smaller operations against the Islamic State group. President Donald Trump, standing alongside Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi at the White House, said “we don’t think we need the military there anymore” and noted Iraq’s growing relationships with oil companies. “The relationship is a whole big relationship where we don’t need the military,” Trump said.
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Maine Democrats, rattled by Platner's downfall, protest fatal ICE shooting
By Nolan D. McCaskill BIDDEFORD, Maine, July 14 (Reuters) - As bewildered Maine Democrats face a deadline to replace Graham Platner after his U.S.
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Wife of Ryanair passenger sucked out of dislodged window recalls incident
By Ivana Sekularac and Alexandros Avramidis THESSALONIKI, Greece, July 14 (Reuters) - Svetlana Maksimovic and her husband Ljubisa Karovic had just settled into a Ryanair flight last week when a loud
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Trump will speak on elections in primetime address after pushing debunked conspiracies
President Donald Trump will deliver a primetime address this week that he says will include a focus on elections, suggesting he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. The speech comes as he's escalated calls for Republicans to pass tighter federal voting rules for November’s midterm elections. Asked for a preview of the speech on Tuesday, Trump offered scant detail but said he has “really big news.”
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These are the 17 Mexicans whose ICE-related deaths prompted Mexico to demand accountability
The deaths of 17 Mexican immigrants in ICE custody or operations have escalated tensions between Mexico and the US
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Kosovo bans Serb minister over ethnic cleansing remarks
PRISTINA, July 14 () - Kosovo’s interior minister said on Tuesday it had declared a Serb minister a permanent persona non grata over her remarks, made a day earlier, that if she had been a leader during the Kosovo war she would have ethnically cleansed Kosovo. More than 13,000 people, the majority of them Kosovo Albanians, are believed to have died during the late 1990s insurgency, when Kosovo was still a province of Serbia under then-nationalist strongman President Slobodan Milosevic, whose
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Gibraltar ushers in a new era as British territory's border fence with Spain is removed
Thousands of people who travel every day between the southern tip of Spain and the British territory of Gibraltar will no longer have to cross a physical border, beginning on Wednesday. The official opening at midnight on Tuesday — after a border fence was fully removed — allows a new freedom of movement under a historic treaty between the European Union and the United Kingdom. The contested British Overseas Territory of 38,000 people is perched at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula, in a strategic location mere miles from Morocco where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea.
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Moscow mayor says 340 Ukrainian drones sent towards the capital, most downed
July 14 (Reuters) - Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 340 Ukrainian drones had been dispatched to the area surrounding the capital over a 24-hour period and most had been downed by anti-aircraft units
Reuters - Politics
House passes bill to 'ditch the switch' and make daylight saving time permanent
There will be no turning back the clock if the House has its way. The House passed a bill Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent. Proponents, including the White House, argued the change would provide more daylight during the times that Americans are most active.
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Trump prosecutor Jack Smith reviewed texts from 44 US lawmakers, Republican senators say
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - Former U.S.
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26 Meta employees sue, alleging AI-driven layoff picks hit workers on medical and parental leave
A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company, claiming it used artificial intelligence systems to select people for layoffs, disproportionately targeting those on medical, parental or family leave. Many of these scores and ratings “by design, cannot be accumulated by an employee who is on protected medical or family leave, or whose output is reduced by a disability,” the lawsuit says. Meta, according to the lawsuit, did not account for protected leave when taking employees' scores into account and “did not pause the system for the individualized, leave- and accommodation-neutral review that the law requires.”
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US Senate Democrats block $1.15 trillion defense bill over Iran war objections
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - U.S.
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Top Fed officials embrace cooler inflation reading, clamor for more
July 14 (Reuters) - Top Federal Reserve officials on Tuesday welcomed fresh data showing consumer price inflation cooled last month, but said they would need more such readings to feel confident that price pressures are truly easing. The remarks, from Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh and Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee, suggest the case for a near-term interest rate hike may have weakened but is by no means dead.
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Man fleeing immigration officers in Florida is struck and killed by tractor trailer, police say
A man running from an encounter with immigration and other federal agents in Florida was struck and killed by a tractor trailer on Tuesday, authorities said. It was the third death in a week involving encounters with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, following shootings in Texas and Maine. The 28-year-old was among four occupants of a vehicle that stopped in the parking lot of a gas station and convenience store in the St. Augustine area before 7 a.m. During an encounter with agents from ICE and Homeland Security Investigations, the four fled on foot, with one darting across a busy road into the path of the semi, Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Dylan Bryan said in an emailed statement.
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