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By Moira Warburton (Reuters) -Democrats in Congress released six years of Donald Trump’s tax records to the public on Friday, disclosing documents the former president long sought to keep secret and dealing another setback as he again seeks the White House in 2024. A Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives committee released Trump’s redacted returns for …

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By Herbert Villarraga YAMPIL, Ukraine (Reuters) – As the sound of exploding artillery echoes in the distance, Senia, a big white bunny, twitches nervously in the arms of his owner. “He’s afraid,” explained the farmer, Yevhennia, stroking the rabbit. Here in Yampil, a crater-pocked frontline village in east Ukraine recaptured by Ukrainian forces at the …

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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – When Pope Gregory XII, the last pope to resign before Benedict, died in 1417, the world was not watching. Gregory had stepped down two years earlier in 1415 and spent his remaining days in virtual obscurity hundreds of miles from Rome. He was quietly buried in Recanati, a …

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By Martin Quin Pollard, Xiaoyu Yin and Tingshu Wang LEZHI (Reuters) – In a busy village clinic in Lezhi county in southwest China’s Sichuan province on Thursday, 59-year-old Yang waited anxiously as her husband received an intravenous drip in the adjacent room. For more than a week he has had a fever, chills, a cough, …

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By Andrew Downie (Reuters) – Before Pele made his debut for Brazil, the South American nation had never won the World Cup. By the time he retired, they had won three – more than any other team. Arguably Pele’s greatest contribution to both soccer and Brazil was to transform his underachieving nation into a footballing …

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(Reuters) -Belarus protested to Ukraine’s ambassador on Thursday after saying it had downed a Ukrainian S-300 air defence missile in a field, during one of Russia’s heaviest aerial onslaughts against Ukraine since the start of the war in February. The military commissar of the Brest region, Oleg Konovalov, played the incident down in a video …

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By Andrew Downie (Reuters) – Pele, the magical Brazilian soccer star who rose from barefoot poverty to become one of the greatest and best-known athletes in modern history, died at the age of 82, his daughter said on Instagram on Thursday. He had been in and out of hospital in recent months after a tumor …

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By Daniel Ramos and Adam Jourdan LA PAZ/SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (Reuters) -Bolivian police on Wednesday detained prominent opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho on charges of “terrorism”, significantly escalating tensions between the national government and Camacho’s base in the Santa Cruz region. Bolivia’s state attorney’s office confirmed the detention of 43-year-old Camacho, a lawyer and right-wing …

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