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By Corina Pons and Elena Rodriguez MADRID (Reuters) -Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez will remain a “very clear voice” pushing for change in his country despite fleeing to seek asylum in Spain, exiled opposition members Antonio Ledezma and Leopoldo Lopez told Reuters on Tuesday. Gonzalez, who says he won the July 28 presidential election, could …

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By Elviira Luoma and Anne Kauranen RIIHIMAKI, Finland (Reuters) – This autumn, pupils in the Finnish town of Riihimaki headed back to school with backpacks full of books after a decade of state-backed promotion of laptops and other digital devices in the classroom. Finland’s public education system has gained global renown for its good results …

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By Yuliia Dysa and Anastasiia Malenko KYIV (Reuters) -Kyiv said on Tuesday it could cut ties with Tehran if Russia used ballistic missiles supplied by Iran to attack Ukraine, and it denounced any such delivery of the weapons as “unacceptable”. Earlier, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russia received the missiles from Iran 2-1/2 …

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By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Blood on the ground of a dark, cramped tunnel sealed by an iron door, bullets and a chess set are seen in a video released by the Israeli military of the passageway deep underground where it said six slain hostages were held and killed by Hamas. The video was …

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By Daphne Psaledakis and Simon Lewis LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russia has received ballistic missiles from Iran for its war in Ukraine, the United States said on Tuesday as it imposed fresh sanctions on ships and companies it said were involved in supplying Moscow with Iranian weapons. At a news conference in London ahead of a visit …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Lukoil is set to resume oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline to Slovakia and Hungary in October after Hungary’s MOL said it had struck deals to transport crude through Belarus and Ukraine via the pipeline, two sources said on Tuesday. The sources said the supplies would resume next month because this …

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GENEVA (Reuters) – A Swiss appeals court has overturned the acquittal of a prominent Islamic scholar on charges of rape and sexual coercion against a woman, Geneva’s cantonal government said on Tuesday. Tariq Ramadan is a grandson of Hasan al-Banna, an Islamist thinker and activist who founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. He has denied …

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