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By Anthony Deutsch and Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Prosecutors investigating war crimes cases in Ukraine are examining allegations of the forcible deportation of children to Russia since the invasion as they seek to build a genocide indictment, the country’s top prosecutor said in an interview. International humanitarian law classifies the forced …

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary hopes to reach an agreement with EU authorities by the end of the year on gaining access to billions of euros worth of pandemic recovery funding, state news agency MTI cited the country’s EU affairs minister as saying. The European Commission has frozen access to some EU funds for Hungary and …

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(Reuters) – A man shot and killed two women in the parking lot of a church in Iowa state on Thursday and then turned the gun on himself, police said, adding three more dead to the toll in a series of recent shootings that have rocked the United States. The Iowa shooting took place shortly …

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By Michael Noble Jr. TULSA, Okla. (Reuters) -A man who fatally shot five people including himself at an Oklahoma medical building, after buying an assault-style rifle on the same day, had gone there to kill a doctor who he blamed for back pain he felt after surgery, authorities said on Thursday. The suspect entered a …

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MARSEILLE (Reuters) -President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday defended his choice of Pap Ndiaye for education minister, a Black academic whose appointment rekindled a debate over France’s relationship with race and the colonial heritage of a country that cherishes its universalist tradition. Ndiaye, a specialist in African-American history and minority rights and a newcomer to politics, …

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By Aziz El Yaakoubi RIYADH (Reuters) -Yemen’s warring parties agreed to extend a U.N.-brokered truce for another two months under the same terms as the original deal that was due to expire on Thursday, the U.N. envoy to Yemen said. Delegations from the Saudi-backed government and the Iran-aligned Houthi movement are expected to return to …

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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -The avowed white supremacist accused of a racist attack that killed 10 people at a supermarket in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to 25 counts in an indictment returned by a grand jury, court documents showed. The accused shooter, Payton Gendron, appeared in court …

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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – French diplomats went on strike on Thursday for the first time in 20 years in protest at a perceived lack of recognition, fewer means, and reforms pushed by President Emmanuel Macron that they say could hurt France’s global standing. Hundreds of diplomatic staff at home and abroad, including some …

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By Michael Noble Jr. TULSA, Oklahoma (Reuters) -A man armed with a rifle and a handgun killed four people inside a medical building in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Wednesday before fatally shooting himself, police said, in the latest of a series of mass shootings to rattle the United States. Eyewitness video of first responders arriving at …

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