By Nate Raymond and Ted Hesson BOSTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students on Thursday, and is forcing current foreign students to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status, while also threatening to expand the crackdown to other colleges. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered the …
By Andreas Rinke and Sabine Siebold VILNIUS (Reuters) -Germany and its NATO partners are prepared to defend every inch of the alliance’s territory, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday at a military ceremony in Vilnius to mark the establishment of a German brigade in Lithuania. The thousands-strong brigade on NATO’s eastern flank is part of …
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By Jasper Ward and Emily Rose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Chicago-born man arrested as the lone suspect in the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington was charged on Thursday in federal court with two counts of first-degree murder in a killing widely condemned as an act of antisemitism. Elias Rodriguez, 31, is accused …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Thursday it had shot down 159 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions, including about 20 headed towards Moscow, as the war in Ukraine heated up despite major powers discussing ways to end Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War Two. U.S. President Donald Trump is pressuring Russia and Ukraine to end the …
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By AJ Vicens (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday unsealed charges against a Russian national accused of leading the development and deployment of malicious software that infected thousands of computers over more than a decade. Rustam Rafailevich Gallyamov, 48, of Moscow, led a group of cybercriminals who developed and deployed Qakbot, a name …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – The United States would bear legal responsibility in the event of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Thursday, following a CNN report that Israel might be preparing strikes on Iran. Iran and the U.S., Israel’s closest ally, will hold a fifth round of nuclear talks …
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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense concept revives a controversial, decades-old initiative whose ambitious construction could upend norms in outer space and reshape relations between the world’s top space powers. The announcement of Golden Dome, a vast network of satellites and weapons in Earth’s orbit set to cost …
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By James Mackenzie and May Angel JERUSALEM (Reuters) -For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the shooting of two young embassy staffers at a Jewish event in Washington was a horrific example of the antisemitism that has flared across the world since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Washington police arrested a lone …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The head of the Palestinian Red Crescent said on Thursday that a paramedic who survived an attack that killed 15 aid workers was spared because he asked Israeli soldiers for mercy in Hebrew, adding that he hoped the man’s testimony would help win justice. Assad Al-Nassasrah, a Red Crescent paramedic, …
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By Julia Payne BANFF, Alberta (Reuters) -A European official said on Thursday that the United States is “not convinced” about lowering the Group of Seven nations (G7) price cap on Russian crude oil. The European Union has proposed revising the cap down to an indicative level of $50 a barrel. The cap, agreed in 2022, …
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