PARIS (Reuters) – A French court sentenced eight people to prison terms ranging from one to 16 years for their roles in a hate campaign that culminated in the murder of a teacher who had shown caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in class, local media reported. Days after Samuel Paty, 47, showed his pupils the …
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By Andrey Sychev and Tanya Wood (Reuters) -A driver rammed a car into a large crowd of revellers at a Christmas market in central Germany on Friday evening, killing at least two people and injuring more than 60 before he was arrested, authorities said. One of the dead was a young child, said Reiner Haseloff, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Six people, including one child, were killed on Friday in a Ukrainian missile attack on the town of Rylsk in Russia’s Kursk region, the acting governor, Alexander Khinshtein, said. Ten wounded people, including a 13-year-old, were taken to hospital with minor injuries, Khinshtein wrote on Telegram. “What happened today is a huge tragedy …
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By Andrey Sychev (Reuters) – Billionaire Elon Musk, set to join U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s administration as an outside adviser, on Friday called on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to resign in response to a deadly attack at a German Christmas market. “Scholz should resign immediately,” Musk posted on X, adding: “Incompetent fool.” Musk was responding …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States has charged a Russian-Israeli dual citizen over alleged involvement with the Lockbit ransomware group, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday. Rostislav Panev, 51, was arrested in Israel in August and is awaiting extradition to the United States, the department said. Panev was a developer at Lockbit from its …
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By Elvira Pollina and Alvise Armellini MILAN (Reuters) -Italy’s data protection agency said on Friday it fined ChatGPT maker OpenAI 15 million euros ($15.58 million) after closing an investigation into use of personal data by the generative artificial intelligence application. The fine comes after the authority found OpenAI processed users’ personal data to “train ChatGPT …
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(Reuters) – An incident in which a car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg appears to be an attack, a spokesperson for the city authority told local broadcaster MDR. There are numerous injured people on site, the spokesperson said. (Reporting by Kirsti Knolle, Writing Andrey Sychev, Editing …
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By Wladimir Pantaleone and Angelo Amante PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) – A court on Friday acquitted Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini of charges of kidnapping over 100 migrants aboard a boat he had blocked at sea for nearly three weeks in 2019, as part of a policy to curb irregular arrivals. After a three-year trial, …
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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two Chinese astronauts this week completed a world-record spacewalk of more than nine hours, according to a statement from China’s Manned Space Agency, marking another milestone for Beijing’s rapidly expanding space program. The spacewalk, carried out by Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong outside the Tiangong space station in low-Earth …
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By Dave Graham, Philip Blenkinsop BERN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Switzerland and the European Union on Friday unveiled a deal to carry out the biggest overhaul of their trade ties in years, overcoming Swiss concerns about immigration and setting the scene for a fraught and lengthy approval process. Covering everything from electricity to state aid, transport and freedom …
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