(Reuters) -Russian anti-aircraft units between Monday night and Tuesday morning downed 33 Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow as well as dozens more in Russian-held Crimea and other parts of western Russia, officials said. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, in posts on the Telegram messaging app, said the drones were destroyed en route to the city over …
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By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The longest-ever serving law professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point is suing the elite Army institution over an alleged violation of his free-speech rights under the U.S. Constitution, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday. The lawsuit is the latest allegation of suppression of speech and the …
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TORONTO (Reuters) -Canadian police have arrested a Sikh activist on firearms charges in Ontario, an advocacy group said on Monday, two years after his close associate was murdered and the crime strained Canada’s diplomatic ties with India. Inderjeet Singh Gosal is a member of Sikhs for Justice, which advocates for a Sikh homeland to be …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Physicians may be exempted from new H-1B visa fees, according to a report on Monday, days after the White House announced a new $100,000 fee for such visas that include “case-by-case exemptions if in the national interest.” Doctors may be among those exempted, a Bloomberg news reporter said in a post on X, …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Two Gaza City hospitals have been taken out of service due to the escalation of Israel’s ground offensive and damage caused by continued Israeli bombing, Gaza’s health ministry said, as tanks advanced deeper into the territory. The ministry said in a statement that Al-Rantissi Children’s Hospital had been badly damaged …
By Humeyra Pamuk NEW YORK (Reuters) -Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa renewed his call on Monday for Washington to formally lift U.S. sanctions imposed under the 2019 Caesar Act while visiting New York to attend the first U.N. General Assembly of a Syrian leader in nearly six decades. Sharaa, a former al Qaeda leader, led rebel …
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LONDON (Reuters) -The governments of Britain and the United States will set up a body to reduce red tape for firms seeking to access capital markets on both sides of the Atlantic and improve cooperation on crypto assets, Britain’s finance ministry said on Monday. The Transatlantic Taskforce for Markets of the Future will report back …
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By Cassandra Garrison MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -A confirmed case of an animal infected with the flesh-eating screwworm parasite in Mexico’s northern Nuevo Leon state near the U.S. border was immediately treated to prevent a further outbreak, the Mexican government said Monday. The country’s agriculture ministry said there was no risk of adult screwworm fly emergence …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. on Monday imposed sanctions on the wife of the judge who presided over the criminal case of right-wing former President Jair Bolsonaro and also yanked the visas of six high-ranking officials, escalating a showdown between the Trump administration and the Brazilian government. Widening the penalties targeting Brazil’s judiciary, …
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil’s Prosecutor General charged federal lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro with coercion, according to a statement on Monday, in a case linked to the one in which his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, was convicted for plotting a coup. The younger Bolsonaro has “repeatedly sought to subordinate the interests of Brazil and the entire …
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