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KANANASKIS, Alberta (Reuters) -Group of Seven nations gathered for a summit have agreed six joint statements on subjects such as critical minerals, artificial intelligence and wildfires, host nation Canada said on Tuesday. The other topics they agreed statements on were quantum computing, migrant smuggling and transnational repression. Prime Minister Mark Carney is due to issue …

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By Parisa Hafezi and Angus McDowall DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) -Iran’s 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cuts an increasingly lonely figure. Khamenei has seen his main military and security advisers killed by Israeli air strikes, leaving major holes in his inner circle and raising the risk of strategic errors, according to five people familiar with his …

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By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday repudiated Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s assessment that Iran has not been building a nuclear weapon, publicly contradicting his spy chief for the first time during his second term. In rejecting his top spy’s judgment, Trump appeared to embrace Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …

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(Reuters) -Russia’s Foreign Ministry denounced on Tuesday continued Israeli attacks on Iran as illegal and said a solution to the conflict over Tehran’s nuclear programme could only be found through diplomacy. “The continuing intensive attacks by Israel on Iran’s peaceful nuclear sites are illegal in terms of international law and create unacceptable threats to international …

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By Pietro Lombardi and David Latona MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish grid operator REE’s failure to calculate the correct mix of energy was one of the factors hindering the grid’s ability to cope with a surge in voltage that led to the massive blackout across Spain and Portugal on April 28, a government investigation concluded. The report, …

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By Pietro Lombardi and David Latona MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish grid operator REE’s failure to calculate the correct mix of energy was one of the factors hindering the grid’s ability to cope with a surge in voltage that led to the massive blackout across Spain and Portugal on April 28, a government investigation concluded. The report, …

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NAIROBI (Reuters) -A Kenyan police officer has been arrested over the shooting of an unarmed civilian on Tuesday during protests in the capital Nairobi touched off by the death of a blogger in police custody, a police spokesperson said. Earlier in the day, a video aired on Kenyan broadcaster Citizen Television’s X account showed two …

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By Maayan Lubell, Lili Bayer, Ece Toksabay and Suleiman Al-Khalidi JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel’s command of Iranian air space leaves few obstacles in the way of its expanding bombardment, though it will struggle to deal a knock-out blow to deeply buried nuclear sites without the U.S. joining the attack, experts say. While Iran has responded with …

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