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By Crispian Balmer VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo told a group of leading Hollywood actors and filmmakers on Saturday that cinemas were struggling to survive and that more should be done to protect them and preserve the shared experience of watching movies. Screen stars Cate Blanchett, Monica Bellucci, Chris Pine and Viggo Mortensen were among …

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(Refiling to remove quote incorrectly attributed to Trump from paragraph 12) By Andrea Shalal and Sam Tabahriti (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would likely sue the BBC next week for as much as $5 billion after the British broadcaster admitted it wrongly edited a video of a speech he gave but …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -From regulating the price of chicken to levying fees on cigarettes, Hamas is seeking to widen control over Gaza as U.S. plans for its future slowly take shape, Gazans say, adding to rivals’ doubts over whether it will cede authority as promised. After a ceasefire began last month, Hamas swiftly …

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ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece has arrested a 38-year-old man as part of a Europol crackdown on international cybercrime, during which authorities dismantled malware infrastructure that has infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide, police said. The pan-European law enforcement cooperation agency Europol said on Thursday that in the latest phase of “Operation Endgame” across 10 countries, …

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PARIS (Reuters) -French police shot and wounded a knife-wielding man in Montparnasse train station in central Paris on Friday, the city prosecutor’s office said. A police officer shot in the leg the 34-year-old man who then stabbed himself in the throat, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement, adding: “He was quickly taken care of …

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By Dan Peleschuk (Reuters) -Standing near the mangled exterior of his thermal power plant, the 53-year-old production manager described the now familiar job of a Ukrainian energy worker: swiftly patching up the workplace during another season of intense Russian air strikes. “We could have done without this experience in a civilian profession, but we’ve been …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk temporarily suspended oil exports – equivalent to 2.2 million barrels per day, or 2% of global supply – on Friday, according to industry sources, after a Ukrainian missile and drone attack. The attack was one of the biggest on Russian oil-exporting infrastructure in recent months. It follows …

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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Several people were killed and injured when a bus hit a bus stop in central Stockholm on Friday, Swedish police said, adding that they had no information pointing to it being an attack. There were six casualties in the incident, a spokesperson for Stockholm’s rescue services said, without giving the numbers of those …

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