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German palliative doctor charged with 15 counts of murder

16 Apr 2025

BERLIN (Reuters) -Prosecutors in Berlin on Wednesday charged a doctor suspected of administering lethal amounts of various medications to palliative patients under his care with 15 counts of murder. Prosecutors are also seeking a lifelong professional ban for the 40-year-old suspect, detained since August 2024, who had been active in several German states. The suspect, …

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AUKUS nuclear submarine sale under scrutiny as Trump tariffs rattle Australia

16 Apr 2025

(This April 10 story has been corrected to change the description of the U.S. defence strategist in paragraph 5) By Kirsty Needham PERTH (Reuters) – The sale of nuclear-powered submarines to Australia under the AUKUS treaty faces new doubts as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs take hold, and amid concern in Washington that providing the …

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Magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan, EMSC says

16 Apr 2025

(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck the Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 121 km (75 miles), EMSC said, and the epicentre 164 km east of Baghlan, a city with a population of about 108,000. EMSC first reported the quake …

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Trump holds Situation Room meeting on Iran, officials say

16 Apr 2025

By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump met with his top national security aides on Tuesday to discuss Iran’s nuclear program ahead of a second meeting between U.S. and Iranian officials on Saturday, sources said. U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is to meet his Iranian counterpart on Saturday, a session currently …

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French prisons targeted in ‘terrorist attack’ amid drug crackdown, minister says

15 Apr 2025

By Gabriel Stargardter and Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) -France’s justice minister said on Tuesday gun and arson attacks on at least six prisons around the country were acts of terrorism directed at security officials charged with guarding some of the nation’s most hardened crime kingpins. Visiting Toulon prison in southern France, whose entrance was shot …

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US lifting sanctions on key aide to Hungary’s Orban

15 Apr 2025

By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is removing sanctions on a close aide of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the State Department said on Tuesday, adding that the punitive measures were inconsistent with U.S. foreign policy interests. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke on Tuesday with his Hungarian counterpart, Foreign Minister Peter …

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Russian journalists jailed for 5-1/2 years for alleged extremist ties to Navalny

15 Apr 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Four Russian journalists were sentenced by a Moscow court to 5-1/2 years each in prison on Tuesday after being found guilty of working for the banned organisation of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Antonina Favorskaya, Sergei Karelin, Konstantin Gabov and Artem Kriger have been on trial behind closed doors since October on …

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