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By Mircely Guanipa and Tibisay Romero MARACAY/VALENCIA, Venezuela (Reuters) -Stores were closed and buses not running around much of Venezuela on Wednesday, as tensions over a disputed presidential election and rumors of opposition arrests kept many people home. Socialist President Nicolas Maduro, who has ruled since 2013, was declared the winner of the weekend vote …

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STIP, North Macedonia (Reuters) – Firefighters in North Macedonia fought a dozen wildfires fanned by heavy winds for a third day on Wednesday, and hot temperatures and dry weather also fueled smaller blazes across Greece and the Balkans, officials said. One fire was spreading in the municipality of Negrevo near the Bulgarian border and another …

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By Allison Lampert (Reuters) -Kelly Ortberg, the former Rockwell Collins boss tapped to lead Boeing, has a background that threads a delicate needle for the planemaker – a company outsider untethered to Boeing’s past, but an industry insider with an engineering background. Ortberg will have a lengthy to-do list when he comes out of retirement …

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By Samia Nakhoul, Stephen Farrell DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) -Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader who was killed in Iran, was the tough-talking face of the Palestinian group’s international diplomacy as war raged back in Gaza, where three of his sons were killed in an Israeli airstrike. But despite the rhetoric, he was seen by many diplomats as …

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By Helen Reid PARIS (Reuters) -France’s Cassandre Beaugrand won gold in the women’s triathlon at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, cheered on by a delighted crowd as the hosts’ gamble to hold the swim stage of the race in the Seine paid off after days of uncertainty. The triathlon, a central showpiece of the Paris …

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By Anastasiia Malenko and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s air force said it repelled one of Russia’s largest long-range drone attacks of the war overnight, shooting down all 89 drones launched at Kyiv, the surrounding region and other areas in the early hours of Wednesday. The attack, which came more than 29 months after Russia’s …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia on Wednesday condemned the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Iran and called on all parties to refrain from steps that could tip the Middle East into a major war. Hamas’s Haniyeh was assassinated in the early hours of the morning in Iran, the Palestinian militant group said, drawing fears of …

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