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USDA probationary staff fired at two research agencies, sources say

By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has fired probationary staff at two U.S. Department of Agriculture research agencies, two sources familiar with the situation said on Friday. It was not immediately clear how many staff were affected by the firings, which the sources said occurred overnight. A USDA spokesperson would not …

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Saudi Arabia spearheads Arab scramble for alternative to Trump’s Gaza plan

By Pesha Magid, Samia Nakhoul, Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Ahmed Mohamed Hassan RIYADH/ABU DHABI/AMMAN/CAIRO (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia is spearheading urgent Arab efforts to develop a plan for Gaza’s future as a counter to U.S. President Donald Trump’s ambition for a Middle East Riviera cleared of its Palestinian inhabitants, 10 sources said. Draft ideas will be discussed …

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Pope Francis, in hospital, has ‘slight fever’ but is stable, Vatican says

By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis, who was taken to hospital on Friday for treatment of bronchitis, is suffering from a respiratory infection but is in a stable condition, the Vatican said. “The Holy Father … has undergone specialist examinations and has started hospital drug therapy,” said a statement, issued about eight hours …

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Italy president’s ‘Third Reich’ comments on Russia spark Rome-Moscow dispute

ROME (Reuters) – Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni accused Russia of “offending the entire Italian nation” on Friday as she stood by comments by the Italian president that compared modern-day Russia to Nazi Germany. In a speech last week, President Sergio Mattarella criticised the “wars of aggression” that led to World War Two. “This was the …

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Russian suspected of sabotage against Poland, US, deported from Bosnia, Tusk says

WARSAW (Reuters) -A Russian citizen suspected of coordinating acts of sabotage against Poland, the United States and other allies was deported to Poland from Bosnia and Herzegovina and arrested by a court order, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on X on Friday. Last month, a court in Bosnia and Herzegovina reviewed a Polish request …

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Gaza militant groups name three hostages to be released on Saturday

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and James Mackenzie CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian militant groups in Gaza said they would release hostages Iair Horn, U.S.-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen and Russian-Israeli Alexandre Sasha Troufanov on Saturday, in accordance with the terms of the ceasefire with Israel. All three men were seized in Kibbutz Nir Oz, one of the communities around …

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Afghan national confesses to Munich car ramming that injured 36, prosecutor says

By Jörn Poltz and Friederike Heine MUNICH (Reuters) -An Afghan national has admitted to purposefully driving into a crowd in the German city of Munich and authorities have determined an Islamist motive for the crime, a prosecutor said on Friday. At least 36 people including a toddler were hurt on Thursday when the 24-year-old man …

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Vance attack on Europe overshadows Ukraine talks at security conference

By Andrew Gray, Andreas Rinke and Sabine Siebold MUNICH (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President JD Vance accused European leaders on Friday of censoring free speech and failing to control immigration, drawing a sharp rebuke from Germany’s defence minister and overshadowing discussions on the war in Ukraine. The prospect of peace talks had been expected to dominate …

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EU’s Kallas: listening to Vance speech felt like United States was trying to pick fight with us

MUNICH (Reuters) – The European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Friday that a speech by U.S. Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security conference felt as if the United States was ‘trying to pick a fight’ with Europe. “Listening to that speech, they try to pick a fight with us and …

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Zelenskiy says Russian drone damages Chornobyl plant’s radiation shield

By Max Hunder and Anastasiia Malenko KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that a Russian drone had caused significant damage to the radiation containment shelter at the disused Chornobyl nuclear power plant overnight. Zelenskiy and the U.N.’s atomic energy watchdog both said that radiation levels remained normal after the incident, which came …

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