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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – The Manhattan federal judge who made the unusual move of saying he would dismiss Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times on Monday while jurors were still deliberating is considered a maverick known for tussling with Wall Street regulators and criticizing the U.S. sentencing regimes. U.S. District Judge …

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch government will lift most of its coronavirus restrictions as of Friday, as the record levels of infections triggered by the Omicron variant have not translated in a peak of hospitalisations, health minister Ernst Kuipers said on Tuesday. “The country will open up again … happily we are in a different …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s defence ministry and two banks came under a cyber attack on Tuesday that shut access to the ministry’s website, Ukraine’s information security centre said. The Ukrainian Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security, which is part of the culture ministry, did not say who it blamed for the attack, but a …

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By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will ease entry for fully vaccinated international travelers starting on March 1 as COVID-19 cases decline, allowing a rapid antigen test for travelers instead of a molecular one, a government source said. The new measures, which include dropping compulsory testing on entry, are due to be announced by …

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ATHENS (Reuters) – A mother and her partner have been arrested in Greece over the killing of her seven-year-old son by suffocation five years ago and an investigating judge on Tuesday charged them with manslaughter, state ERT TV reported. The killing of the boy, identified only as Andreas, who police said was abused and suffocated …

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PARIS (Reuters) – France’s highest court, the Cour de Cassation, on Tuesday upheld a decision by investigative magistrates in 2018 to drop an investigation into the killing of Rwanda’s then president in 1994, which triggered a genocide. Hutu politician Juvenal Habyarimana died in April 1994 when his plane was downed near Kigali airport by rockets. …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – New commercial satellite images show a flurry of Russian military activity at several locations near Ukraine, the private U.S. company that released the pictures said, amid fears that Moscow may launch an attack on its ex-Soviet neighbour. Russia, which has repeatedly denied plans to invade, is holding large military exercises in ex-Soviet …

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The European Union’s data protection watchdog called on Tuesday for a ban on the controversial spyware tool Pegasus, developed by Israeli-based NSO Group. The EDPS said use of Pegasus might lead to an “unprecedented level of intrusiveness, able to interfere with the most intimate aspects of our daily lives.” Israel has come …

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