By Hanna Rantala and Crispian Balmer VENICE (Reuters) – Stars galore will light up this year’s Venice Film Festival, which opens on Wednesday, bringing sex, song and soul-searching to the Lido, making up for a low wattage 2023 edition when a strike kept most A-listers away. The 11-day event fires the starting gun for the …
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By Andrew Goudsward and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump mounted a “sustained, detailed effort” to attack a major gathering of some sort before deciding to target the Republican presidential candidate at a Pennsylvania rally in July, FBI officials said on Wednesday. FBI officials said Thomas Crooks, 20, …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations World Food Programme temporarily suspended movement of its employees across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, saying at least 10 bullets struck one of its clearly marked vehicles as it approached an Israeli military checkpoint. WFP said in a statement that a convoy of two armoured vehicles …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s foreign ministry on Wednesday said it was banning entry to Russia for 92 U.S. citizens including journalists, lawyers, and the heads of what it said were key military-industrial firms over what it described as Washington’s Russophobic stance. The war in Ukraine has triggered the worst crisis in Moscow’s relations with the United …
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(Refiles with no changes to text.) ROME (Reuters) – Torrential rains triggered a landslide in the southern Italian province of Caserta, forcing evacuations, and rescuers were searching for a woman and her adult son on Wednesday who were missing and feared to have died. The bad weather hit the town of San Felice a Cancello, …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – An Israeli drone strike on a car crossing through a Syrian checkpoint near the border with Lebanon on Wednesday killed three Palestinian fighters and one member of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, two security sources told Reuters. The car was not transporting weapons, the sources said. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday its forces had defused unexploded U.S.-supplied munitions fired by Ukraine that were shot down just 5 km (3 miles) from Russia’s Kursk nuclear power plant, which Moscow has accused Ukrainian forces of trying to strike. The announcement was made by Russia’s National Guard and accompanied by a video …
By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis on Wednesday strongly decried the treatment of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to enter Europe, saying it was a “grave sin” not to offer aid to migrant vessels. “There are those who work systematically and with every means to reject migrants,” the pontiff said during his weekly …
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By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign rejected Republican rival Donald Trump’s assertion on Tuesday that the two sides had agreed to muted microphones at the Sept. 10 U.S. presidential debate. The issue remains a matter of ongoing conversation with host network ABC, a Harris campaign official said. In a social …
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By James Mackenzie and Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli special forces have recovered an Israeli hostage from a tunnel in southern Gaza in “a complex rescue operation”, the military said on Tuesday, more than 10 months after he was abducted by Hamas-led gunmen. It said 52-year-old Qaid Farhan Alkadi, a member of the Bedouin …
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