By Tom Hals and Jack Queen WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden was convicted by a jury on Tuesday of lying about his illegal drug use to buy a gun, making him the first child of a sitting U.S. president to be convicted of a crime. A 12-member jury in Wilmington, Delaware …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. will announce new sanctions and export controls against Russia during the G7 summit in southern Italy later this week, White House spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday. The U.S. and leaders of the nation’s largest economies have imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia for its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and Kirby said …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will work with the democratically elected leaders of France, no matter who they are, White House spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday. French President Emmanuel Macron rolled the dice on his political future on Sunday, calling snap legislative elections for later this month after he was trounced in …
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(Reuters) – Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, quoted by Russian news agencies, said on Tuesday he hoped to meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan next month at a regional meeting in Kazakhstan. “I hope that very soon, on the 3rd or 4th of July, he will be in Astana as far as I know,” Putin told visiting …
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By Daphne Psaledakis and Nidal al-Mughrabi TEL AVIV/CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas accepts a U.N. resolution backing a plan to end the war with Israel in Gaza and is ready to negotiate details, a senior official of the Palestinian militant group said on Tuesday in what the U.S. Secretary of State called a hopeful sign. Qatari and …
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ROME (Reuters) – The pope has again used a highly disparaging word against gay people for which he had already apologised last month, ANSA news agency said on Tuesday. Italian media had attributed to the pope the use of the word “frociaggine”, a vulgar Italian term roughly translating as “faggotness”, on May 20 during a …
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By Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) – A Berlin court on Tuesday rejected an urgent request by a number of Palestinian Gaza residents to stop the government approving permits for the export of German weapons to Israel on grounds that they might be used in violation of humanitarian law. The Palestinians were supported by several organisations …
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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Tuesday its troops had started the second stage of drills to practice the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons alongside Belarusian troops after what Moscow said were threats from Western powers. Russia says the United States and its European allies are pushing the world to the brink of …
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By Denis Balibouse and Cecile Mantovani FOREL, Switzerland (Reuters) – In the lush fields of the Swiss town of Forel, volunteers use drones before dawn to find fawns, or young deer, nestled beneath tall grasses, preventing farmers from inadvertently harming them with heavy agricultural machinery. Hundreds of fawns have been killed or mutilated in Swiss …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas accepts a UN Security Council ceasefire resolution and is ready to negotiate over the details, senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters on Tuesday, adding that it was up to Washington to ensure that Israel abides by it. Hamas accepts the UN security council resolution in regard to the ceasefire, withdrawal …
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