PARIS (Reuters) – A bedbug scare in Paris last autumn that grabbed headlines across the globe was artificially amplified by social media accounts linked to Russian “disinformation” activities, a French minister said on Friday. “The bedbug polemic was in a very large part amplified by accounts linked to the Kremlin, and they even created a …
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By Andrea Shalal SANTIAGO (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Friday that Washington was strongly committed to G20 finance ministers’ work, despite the group’s failure to reach consensus on communique language regarding wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Yellen said finance officials from the Group of 20 major economies had worked together successfully …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Buses, trams and underground trains stood idle across most of Germany on Friday at the culmination of a week of staggered public transport strikes triggered by disputes over working hours. The walkouts, organised by the Verdi union, have hit 14 of the country’s 16 states, including Berlin. They were due to end …
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(Reuters) – Russia is ready to hand over to Ukraine the bodies of the victims of a January military plane crash, the RIA news agency cited Russian human rights official Tatyana Moskalkova as saying on Friday. Moscow accuses Kyiv of downing the Ilyushin Il-76 plane in Russia’s Belgorod region and killing 74 people on board, …
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By Marcela Ayres and Christian Kraemer SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Finance leaders from the world’s largest economies failed to agree on a joint statement as they wrapped up talks on Thursday, with divisions over the wars in Gaza and Ukraine overshadowing efforts to forge a consensus on global economic development. Brazil, which hosted finance ministers and …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party has directed officials to control trade unions as the country prepares to expand workers’ rights, alongside closely monitoring foreign organisations and citizens travelling abroad, according to an advocacy group. Bangkok-based Project88, which focuses on human rights in Vietnam, said in a report published on Friday it had obtained …
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(Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday said the killing of over 100 people seeking humanitarian aid in Gaza was a situation that would require an effective independent investigation. Speaking in St. Vincent and the Grenadines ahead of a regional summit, Guterres said he was “shocked” by the latest episode in the war …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Thursday soundly defeated an effort to stop the $23 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets and modernization kits to Turkey, which President Joe Biden’s administration approved after Turkey approved Sweden’s joining the NATO alliance. As voting continued, the tally was 61 to 10 against a resolution of disapproval …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday his government would find a way to end exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews from Israeli military service in the face of political pressures that threaten his narrow coalition’s future. “We will determine goals for conscripting ultra-Orthodox people to the IDF and national civil service,” Netanyahu said …
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(Reuters) – A Russian man pled guilty on Thursday to U.S. charges that he smuggled large quantities of American-made, military-grade microelectronics to Russia, top U.S. justice officials said in a statement. Maxim Marchenko, 51, who had been based in Hong Kong, was taken into U.S. custody in September. He and two unnamed Russian co-conspirators were …
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