SYDNEY (Reuters) – A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before Australia’s national day, authorities said on Friday. It was the second time the statue has been defaced and vandalised in …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was not sure the United States should be spending anything on NATO, telling reporters the U.S. was protecting NATO members, but they were “not protecting us.” Trump repeated demands that other members of the transatlantic alliance spend 5% of their gross …
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By Barbara Erling and Kuba Stezycki WARSAW/KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) – When Teresa Regula arrived at Auschwitz as a 16-year-old, the first real pain she experienced was of her ears burning. “They shaved us down to bare skin, and it was a scorching hot day, August 4… That was the first authentic pain I felt,” said …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia on Thursday reprimanded the head of the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF for not providing a “weighty argument for her refusal” to brief the Security Council on children in Gaza – a meeting requested by Russia. Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell, an …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States will leave the World Health Organization on Jan. 22, 2026, the United Nations said on Thursday, after being formally notified of the decision by President Donald Trump, who has accused the agency of mishandling the pandemic and other international health crises. Trump announced the move …
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By Amina Ismail and Khalil Ashawi DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syria’s new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s notoriously corrupt and brutal security forces. Police they …
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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wanted to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin as soon as possible to secure an end to the war with Ukraine and expressed a desire to work towards cutting nuclear arms. In the run-up to his Nov. 5 election victory, Trump declared many times that …
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BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil sees an opportunity to amplify the voices of developing nations in upcoming climate finance talks, according to comments on Thursday from the head of the global COP30 summit set to be hosted by the South American nation later this year. The comments from Andre Correa do Lago come as world leaders grapple …
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PARIS (Reuters) -A woman who was blamed by French courts for her divorce because she no longer had sex with her husband won an appeal in Europe’s top human rights court, the court said on Thursday, reigniting a debate in France over women’s rights. The French woman – identified as Ms. H.W, born in 1955 …
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By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) -Kyiv’s talks with its allies on a possible foreign troop contingent in Ukraine that would act as a security guarantee are only in their early stages and have not focused on specific numbers, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. Ukraine is seeking security guarantees from its allies as part of …
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