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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its 11th Starship rocket from Texas on Monday and landed it in the Indian Ocean, the last flight before the company begins test-launching a new version of the giant rocket outfitted with more features for moon and Mars missions. Starship, which includes the Starship upper stage …

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(Refiles to fix dropped quotation mark in paragraph 27) By Johan Ahlander, Jonathan Allen and Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel economics prize on Monday for their work on how innovation and the forces of “creative destruction” can drive economic growth and lift living standards across …

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(Adds dropped word in paragraph 40) By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Steve Holland and Andrew Mills CAIRO/WASHINGTON/DUBAI (Reuters) -Hamas has called Donald Trump a racist, a “recipe for chaos” and a man with an absurd vision for Gaza. But one extraordinary phone call last month helped persuade Hamas that the U.S. president might be able to hold …

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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Countries around the world lack the regulatory and ethical foundation to deal with the rapid advent of artificial intelligence, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Monday, urging civil society groups to “ring the alarm bells.” Georgieva said the rapidly advancing technological revolution unleashed by AI was dominated by advanced economies, …

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By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Former Israeli hostage Noa Argamani — whose desperate cries on the back of a motorcycle became one of the most haunting images of the Hamas October 7, 2023, attack — was reunited on Monday with her newly freed boyfriend, Avinatan Or. A government video showed Or, 32, first hugging and …

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CARACAS/OSLO (Reuters) -Venezuela’s government said on Monday it will close its embassies in Norway and Australia and open new ones in Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe in a restructuring of its foreign service, after weeks of growing tensions with the U.S. The closures are part of the “strategic re-assignation of resources,” President Nicolas Maduro’s government said …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -A greatly weakened Hamas has sought to reassert itself in Gaza since a ceasefire took hold, killing at least 33 people in a crackdown on groups that have tested its grip and appearing to get a U.S. nod to temporarily police the shattered enclave. Pummelled by Israel during the war …

Hamas carries out wave of Gaza killings, citing crime and security concerns Read More »

By Alison Withers COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Global warming is crossing dangerous thresholds sooner than expected with the world’s coral reefs now in an almost irreversible die-off, marking what scientists on Monday described as the first “tipping point” in climate-driven ecosystem collapse.  The warning in the Global Tipping Points report by 160 researchers worldwide, which synthesizes groundbreaking …

Climate tipping points are being crossed, scientists warn ahead of COP30 Read More »

By Yuliia Dysa, Steve Holland and Gram Slattery KYIV/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that he would meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday, where the two would discuss Ukraine’s air defence and long-range strike capabilities. The two leaders spoke on both Saturday and Sunday amid intensifying discussions about the …

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By Alessandro Parodi PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron rejected calls to resign and blasted his opponents on Monday, as his latest government was threatened by two no-confidence motions that could bring it down by the end of the week. France is in the midst of its worst political crisis in decades as a succession …

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