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New Zealand to have new regulations for space-related infrastructure by July

28 Apr 2025 28 Apr 2025

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand will have in place by July legislation regulating operators of ground-based space infrastructure, aimed at deterring foreign interference, the country’s Space Minister Judith Collins said. The new regulations, which were flagged at the end of 2024, come after New Zealand’s intelligence service raised concerns last September that some foreign entities had tried …

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Death toll from blast at Iran’s Bandar Abbas port rises to 40

28 Apr 2025 28 Apr 2025

DUBAI (Reuters) -The death toll from a powerful explosion at Iran’s biggest port of Bandar Abbas has risen to at least 40, with more than 1,200 people injured, state media reported on Sunday, as firefighters worked to fully extinguish the fire. Saturday’s blast took place in the Shahid Rajaee section of the port, Iran’s biggest …

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Trump says Zelenskiy meeting went well

28 Apr 2025 28 Apr 2025

By Steve Holland MORRISTOWN, New Jersey (Reuters) – President Donald Trump says his meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the Vatican on Saturday went well and said the next few days will prove if there was progress in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. (Reporting By Steve Holland and Jarrett Renshaw; Editing by Sandra Maler)

More than 30,000 people pack Rome church to visit Pope Francis’ tomb

27 Apr 2025 27 Apr 2025

By Giselda Vagnoni and Cristiano Corvino ROME (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of people streamed past the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, packing the Roman basilica where he had chosen to be buried in a break from tradition. No pope had been laid to rest outside the Vatican in more than a century, but Francis …

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French politicians condemn mosque stabbing attack

27 Apr 2025 27 Apr 2025

PARIS (Reuters) -French politicians on Sunday condemned an attack in which a man was stabbed to death while praying at a mosque in southern France, an incident that was captured on video and disseminated on Snapchat. President Emmanuel Macron offered his support to the man’s family and to the French Muslim community, writing in a …

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Putin congratulates commanders for ‘victory’ in Kursk, Kremlin says

27 Apr 2025 27 Apr 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin telephoned his top commanders in Kursk to congratulate them on “victory” and the end of the operation to expel Ukrainian forces from the region in western Russia, Russian news agencies quoted the Kremlin as saying on Sunday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, writing about front-line operations on Sunday, said Ukrainian …

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Car rams into Filipino festival in Vancouver, killing at least 9

27 Apr 2025 27 Apr 2025

By Harshita Meenaktshi and Chris Helgren VANCOUVER (Reuters) -At least nine people were killed and more than 20 injured when a man rammed an SUV through a crowd at a Filipino community festival in the western Canadian city of Vancouver on the weekend before Canada’s federal election, authorities said. Police arrested a 30-year-old Vancouver man, …

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Russia will continue to target sites used by Ukraine’s military, Lavrov says

27 Apr 2025 27 Apr 2025

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia will continue to target sites used by Ukraine’s military, Russia’s foreign minister said in an interview broadcast on Sunday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reported that Russia had already conducted 70 attacks. Moscow’s top diplomat, Sergei Lavrov, said a deadly Russian missile strike on a residential building in Kyiv last week …

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Greenland, Denmark affirm alliance amid Trump’s interest in US control

27 Apr 2025 27 Apr 2025

By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Louise Rasmussen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Greenland and Denmark agreed on Sunday to strengthen their ties in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s interest in taking control of the strategically located Arctic island, their leaders said after talks in Copenhagen. Greenland’s new Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen landed in the Danish capital on …

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Some 200,000 Catholic youth flock to St. Peter’s to mourn Pope Francis

27 Apr 2025 27 Apr 2025

By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, a day after Pope Francis’ funeral, for another ceremony to honour him on the second of nine official days of mourning for the global Catholic Church. But instead of world leaders like U.S. President Donald Trump, who attended …

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