By Marco Garcia KAHULUI, Hawaii (Reuters) -Maui’s wildfires have killed at least 55 people, a toll expected to rise, and unleashed destruction on the resort town of Lahaina that will take many years and billions of dollars to rebuild, Hawaiian officials said on Thursday. Governor Josh Green said the inferno that reduced much of Lahaina …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government is in talks with arms maker MBDA about the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, a security source told Reuters on Friday, echoing a report by Spiegel magazine. Kyiv has been pushing Berlin to supply it with the Taurus, a missile with a range of more than 500 …
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By John Stonestreet SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain (Reuters) – A pressure group on an island at the heart of Europe’s ecotourism industry is battling to preserve some of its best-loved trees, which authorities are chopping down as part of a programme to embellish the main town. Opponents of the scheme on the Canary Island …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poles will vote on whether they support the privatisation of state companies, Poland’s ruling party leader said on Friday, as he announced the first question in a number of referendums likely to be held on the same day as parliamentary elections. Ruling nationalists Law and Justice (PiS) had initially said they would …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump on Thursday appealed a judge’s dismissal of his claim that the writer E. Jean Carroll defamed him by accusing him of rape, after a jury awarded her $5 million for defamation and sexual abuse but not rape. The former president asked the federal appeals court in Manhattan …
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(Reuters) – A Russian missile struck a hotel in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Thursday evening, leaving one dead and 14 injured, Ukrainian officials said. National police said an Iskander missile hit the city at 7:20 p.m. (1620 GMT) “Zaporizhzhia. The city suffers daily from Russian shelling. A fire broke out in a civilian …
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By Arshad Mohammed and Parisa Hafezi WASHINGTON/DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran may free five detained U.S. citizens as part of a deal under which $6 billion in Iranian funds in South Korea would be unfrozen and the United States would release some Iranians from U.S. prisons, sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday. As a first …
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By Patricia Zengerle and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden asked Congress to approve about $40 billion in additional spending on Thursday, including $24 billion for Ukraine and other international needs, $4 billion related to border security and $12 billion for disaster relief. A senior administration official said the needs were great, and …
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BOGOTA (Reuters) – The six foreign nationals detained for their involvement in the assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio are Colombian, Ecuadorean police confirmed on Thursday. Villavicencio, a vocal critic of corruption and organized crime, was killed leaving an evening campaign event at an education facility in northern Quito. A seventh suspect who died …
PARIS (Reuters) -A holiday home in eastern France that was ravaged by a fire in which 11 people died early on Wednesday did not meet safety standards, a senior official told French media on Thursday. The blaze broke out around 6.30 a.m. (0430 GMT), as the holiday-goers with learning disabilities and accompanying staff were still …
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