By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A former salesman for a manufacturer of laser welding machines was arrested on Monday on charges that he conspired to evade U.S. export control laws in order to sell his company’s products to a division of the Russian state nuclear company Rosatom. Sam Bhambhani was charged in an indictment with …
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By Alexander Ratz and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s government announced plans to impose tighter controls at all of the country’s land borders in what it called an attempt to tackle irregular migration and protect the public from threats such as Islamist extremism. The controls within what is normally a wide area of free movement …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander denied reports that Iran was transferring missiles to Russia, Iranian media said on Monday, amid concern in the West that they could be deployed in the war in Ukraine. CNN and the Wall Street Journal reported last week, citing unidentified sources, that Iran had transferred short-range ballistic …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian forces pressed on with their advance on the eastern front in their 2-1/2-year-old war against Ukraine, capturing the village of Memryk, east of the city of Pokrovsk, the Defence Ministry said. Ukraine made no mention in accounts by the military’s General Staff of the village, lying in the front’s most hotly …
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By Jody Godoy ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) -Alphabet’s Google sought to dominate all sides of online advertising technology by controlling competitors and customers, a Justice Department prosecutor said as trial began in the tech titan’s latest antitrust showdown in Alexandria, Virginia on Monday. Prosecutors say Google has largely dominated the technological infrastructure that funds the flow …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -The new school year in the Palestinian territories officially began on Monday, with all schools in Gaza shut after 11 months of war and no sign of a ceasefire. As fighting continued, Israel announced new orders to residents of the north Gaza Strip to leave their homes, in response to …
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UNITED NATIONS/ JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli military said on Monday it has detained a convoy of United Nations vehicles in the northern Gaza Strip because it has intelligence indicating that a number of “Palestinian suspects” are in the convoy and it wants to question them. “We emphasize that this is not a convoy carrying …
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OSLO (Reuters) – A beluga whale discovered with a harness strapped around its neck in Norwegian waters five years ago – and found dead on Aug. 31 – had a stick stuck in its mouth and its death was not related to human activity, police said on Monday. The body of Hvaldimir – a combination …
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AMMAN/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli airstrikes killed 16 people in western Syria and wounded dozens more overnight, Syrian state media reported on Monday, the deadliest Israeli attack reported by Syrian authorities since the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus was hit in April. There was no immediate comment from Israel, which typically remains silent on reports of …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights chief said on Monday that ending the nearly year-long war in Gaza is a priority and he asked countries to act on what he called Israel’s “blatant disregard” for international law in the occupied Palestinian territories. Nearly 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according …
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