By Sabrina Valle HOUSTON (Reuters) -Hess shareholders on Tuesday approved the proposed $53 billion merger with Chevron that paves the way for the No. 2 U.S. oil company to gain a prize asset and a foothold in rival Exxon Mobil’s massive Guyana discoveries. The approval clears one hurdle, but the deal still requires regulatory approval …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel’s military denied striking a tent camp west of the city of Rafah on Tuesday after Gaza health authorities said Israeli tank shelling had killed at least 21 people there, in what Israel has designated a civilian evacuation zone. Earlier, defying an appeal from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), …
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Venus appears to be more volcanically active than previously known, according to scientists whose new analysis of decades-old radar images has spotted evidence of eruptions at two additional sites on the surface of Earth’s inhospitable planetary neighbor. Radar images obtained by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft from 1990 to 1992 indicated …
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By Alvise Armellini VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis, widely quoted as having used a highly derogatory word to describe the LGBT community, did not intend to use homophobic language and apologises to anyone offended by it, the Vatican said on Tuesday. It is extremely rare for a pope to issue a public apology. “The pope …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday condemned a move by the parliament in the South Caucasus state of Georgia to override a presidential veto of a bill on foreign agents, which western nations say is Russian-inspired. Legislators had voted in the latest step in an affair that has plunged the country into crisis …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. military-built pier off Gaza’s coast is being temporarily removed after a part of the structure broke off, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, in the latest blow to efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians. The pier was announced by U.S. President Joe Biden in March and involved the military assembling the …
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By Vladimir Soldatkin and Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Tuesday that NATO members in Europe were playing with fire by proposing to let Ukraine use Western weapons to strike deep inside Russia, which he said could trigger a global conflict. More than two years into the deadliest land …
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By Lewis Jackson and Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) – The Papua New Guinea government ordered thousands of residents to evacuate from the path of a still-active landslide on Tuesday, after parts of a mountain collapsed, burying at least 2,000 people according to the government’s estimates. Officials said the odds of finding survivors were slim, even …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A U.S. military serviceman detained in Russia on suspicion of theft has also been charged with threatening to kill his girlfriend, Russian independent outlet Mediazona reported on Monday, citing the local prosecutor’s office. Prosecutors in Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East said they had approved an indictment of a U.S. citizen born in …
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s data protection authority has fined the interior ministry 400,000 euros ($434,880) for leaking the email addresses of thousands of expatriate voters in June 2023. The authority said late on Monday it had launched the investigation in March following dozens of complaints by voters who had received emails of political content from …
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