By Lee Marzel JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Ankie Spitzer was 26 years old when her husband Andre, a coach of the Israeli fencing team, was killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics, 50 years ago this week, and the memories of that day have dominated her life ever since. The attack on the Israeli …
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By Michael Church HONG KONG (Reuters) – Iran hopes history will repeat itself at this November’s World Cup in Qatar, 24 years after overcoming a fractious build-up to score a memorable triumph over the United States – the country’s decades-long geopolitical rival – in France. As the teams prepare to clash again, and their governments …
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By Sarah N. Lynch and Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI recovered more than 11,000 government documents and photographs during its Aug. 8 search at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, as well as 48 empty folders labeled as “classified,” according to court records that were unsealed on Friday. The unsealing by U.S. District Judge …
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By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – A critical nuclear power plant in Ukraine again lost external power, international energy officials said on Saturday, heightening concerns as the energy battle between Moscow and the West ramped up in recent days amid the ongoing war. Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant — the largest in Europe — saw its last …
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By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) -For the second time in a week, NASA on Saturday aborted an attempt to launch its giant, next-generation rocketship, citing a stubborn fuel leak that the space agency said could delay the debut mission of its moon-to-Mars Artemis program by at least several weeks. Preflight …
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By Steve Keating NEW YORK (Reuters) -A defiant Serena Williams bid an emotional good-bye to the U.S. Open with a third-round loss to Ajla Tomljanovic on Friday, in what may have been the last singles match of her glittering career. Defeat has always been hard to swallow for the fiercely competitive Williams and no doubt …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran has equipped 51 of its cities with civil defence systems and boosted readiness at air defences to thwart any possible foreign attack, military officials said on Saturday, amid an escalation of tensions with Israel and the United States. The civil defence equipment will enable Iran to “identify and monitor threats by using …
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(Reuters) – The pilot of a small plane who threatened to crash it into a Walmart in Mississippi landed without any injuries, local officials said on Saturday. Earlier, the police department in Tupelo, Mississippi, said they had been talking directly to the pilot and had evacuated the Walmart and a gas station. Tupelo Police Chief …
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ZURICH (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant again lost connection to the last remaining main external power line, but continues to supply electricity to the grid through a reserve line, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Saturday. The agency also said, in a statement posted on its website, that only one of the …
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By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) – Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, will be buried on Saturday in Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery but there is no official day of mourning and it will not be a state funeral. Here are some details of the funerals and burials of previous Soviet and Russian leaders in …
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