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By Tom Little, Louise Rasmussen and Isabelle Yr Carlsson COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark released anti-whaling activist Paul Watson from detention on Tuesday and said it had rejected a Japanese request to extradite him over criminal charges dating back more than a decade. U.S.-Canadian Watson, 74, founder of the Sea Shepherd conservationist group and the Captain Paul …

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By Marisa Taylor and Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A September power outage at a California facility of SpaceX, the space venture of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, caused a loss of ground control for at least an hour during a mission that included the first private spacewalk in history, according to three people familiar with the …

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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming Ukraine envoy will travel to Kyiv and several other European capitals in early January as the next administration tries to bring a swift end to the Russia-Ukraine war, according to two sources with knowledge of the trip’s planning. Retired Lieutenant-General Keith Kellogg, who is set to …

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By Andrew Osborn and Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – A top Russian general accused by Ukraine of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops was assassinated in Moscow by Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service on Tuesday morning in the most high-profile killing of its kind. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who was chief …

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By Erin Banco and Nidal al-Mughrabi WASHINGTON/CAIRO (Reuters) -An agreement to halt the 14-month-old war in Gaza and free hostages held in the Palestinian enclave could be signed in the coming days with talks in Cairo making progress, sources briefed on the meeting said on Tuesday. The U.S. administration, joined by mediators from Egypt and …

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BERLIN (Reuters) -NATO has taken over coordination of Western military aid to Ukraine from the U.S. as planned, a source said on Tuesday, in a move widely seen as aiming to safeguard the support mechanism against NATO sceptic U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. The step, coming after a delay of several months, gives NATO a more …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Huge Israeli airstrikes killed extended families in homes in two parts of the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gaza medics said, with Israel’s military saying it had taken out a Hamas weapons storage facility. In the south of the enclave, meanwhile, residents said Israeli tanks were pushing towards a humanitarian …

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LONDON (Reuters) – The promoters of a proposed European Super League have called on UEFA and FIFA to recognise their new competition, which they relaunched on Tuesday as the Unify League. It is the latest attempt by A22 to get the competition off the ground after the original European Super League (ESL), backed by 12 …

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