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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -SpaceX’s Starship rocket on Tuesday deployed its first batch of mock Starlink satellites in space and tested new heat shield tiles on its plunge through Earth’s atmosphere, clinching development milestones that had been held up by a streak of previous testing failures. The giant 403-foot-tall (123 m) Starship system in …

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By Melanie Burton and Renju Jose MELBOURNE (Reuters) -A man charged with setting fire to a Melbourne synagogue appeared in court on Wednesday over an attack Australia says was orchestrated by Iran and has led to the expulsion of Tehran’s ambassador. Australia said on Tuesday Iran sought to disguise its involvement in two 2024 attacks, …

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(Reuters) -The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of C-17 Globemaster III Aircraft Sustainment Support to the United Kingdom for an estimated cost of $861 million, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The principal contractor for the sale is Boeing Co. (Reporting by Bhargav Acharya in Toronto; Editing by Jasper Ward)

(Reuters) -Two journalists for Reuters and the Associated Press who were killed in an Israeli attack on a Gaza hospital were not “a target of the strike,” a military spokesperson told Reuters on Tuesday, adding the army chief had ordered a further inquiry into how the decision to strike the hospital was made. Israeli forces …

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By Emma Farge, John Irish, Parisa Hafezi and Michelle Nichols GENEVA/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -France, Britain and Germany met with Iran on Tuesday to try to revive diplomacy over its nuclear program before they lose the ability to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Tehran.   The trio, known as the E3, is ready to trigger a so-called …

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PARIS (Reuters) -Paris prosecutors have launched an investigation into the Australian-owned video platform Kick following the online death of Frenchman Raphael Graven who endured days of livestreamed abuse. They said they would examine whether Kick knowingly provided illegal services by broadcasting videos of deliberate attacks and whether Kick complied with European digital services regulations to …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission rejected on Tuesday U.S. President Donald Trump’s criticism that EU digital services rules unfairly target U.S. tech companies and denied they amounted to censorship. Trump wrote on Monday he would impose additional tariffs on all countries with digital taxes, legislation or regulations, saying they were “all designed to harm or …

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