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By Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A lawyer for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down U.S. health insurance executive Brian Thompson in December, told a judge Friday that her client was illegally searched during his arrest and she would seek to exclude that evidence from his trial on state murder and …

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By Nandita Bose and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump reversed course on Friday and said Russia did in fact invade Ukraine, and that Kyiv would soon sign a minerals agreement with the United States as part of efforts to end the Ukraine war. Trump had said on Tuesday that Ukraine “should have never …

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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis, who is being treated in hospital for double pneumonia, is not yet out of danger but is expected to live, one of his doctors said on Friday. Francis is being treated at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, where he was admitted on February 14 after struggling with breathing difficulties …

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WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s president will meet Donald Trump in Washington on Saturday, state news agency PAP reported, after he urged Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy to maintain calm and constructive cooperation with the U.S. leader. Polish President Andrzej Duda’s visit comes amid a widening rift between Trump and Zelenskiy that has alarmed Kyiv’s European allies. “I suggested …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.S. on Friday proposed a draft United Nations resolution to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the proposal pits Washington against an effort by Kyiv and European allies to have their own text adopted on Monday by the General Assembly. U.S. President Donald …

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By James Mackenzie and Jana Choukeir JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) – Hamas released a body on Friday it claimed to be that of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas, whose misidentification in a handover this week threatened to derail the fragile Gaza ceasefire deal. Israeli medical authorities said forensic teams were preparing to examine the body, which Hamas transferred …

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By Aleksandra Michalska and Jonathan Allen MAYVILLE, New York (Reuters) – Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed and partially blinded the novelist Salman Rushdie onstage at a New York arts institute, was found guilty on Friday of attempted murder. Matar, 27, can be seen in videos of the 2022 attack rushing the Chautauqua Institution’s stage …

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