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WHO reports release of staff member detained by Israeli forces in Gaza

24 Aug 2025 24 Aug 2025

(Reuters) -The World Health Organization said a staff member was released on Sunday more than four weeks after being detained in Gaza by Israeli forces. “Extremely relieved that our colleague, detained since 21 July in Gaza, was released this morning,” agency Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X. He reiterated a call …

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Taiwan, China, World War Two and its aftermath

24 Aug 2025 24 Aug 2025

(Reuters) -Taiwan and China are engaged in an increasingly bitter battle of narratives about the legacy of World War Two, which ended 80 years ago. Here is a timeline about Taiwan, China, the war and its aftermath. 1895 – After being defeated in the First Sino-Japanese War, China’s Qing dynasty signs the Treaty of Shimonoseki …

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New Trump design chief aims to improve thousands of US government websites

23 Aug 2025 24 Aug 2025

By David Shepardson and Ismail Shakil WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s new design chief said on Saturday he aims to improve government services to be as satisfying to use as the Apple App Store. Trump has named Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia to spearhead the new National Design Studio that will seek to make digital …

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Russian air defences down drone flying towards Moscow, regional airports closed

23 Aug 2025 23 Aug 2025

(Reuters) -Russian air defences on Saturday downed a drone headed for Moscow and specialists were examining fragments on the ground, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram. Several airports in central Russia suspended operations because of concerns over safe airspace, Russia’s air transport agency Rosaviatsia said. In a series of announcements over several hours, Rosaviatsia …

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Turkish first lady urges Melania Trump to speak out on Gaza

23 Aug 2025 23 Aug 2025

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan has written to U.S. President Donald Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, and urged her to contact Israel’s prime minister and raise the plight of children in Gaza, authorities in Ankara said on Saturday. Emine Erdogan wrote that she had been inspired by the letter Melania Trump sent to Russian …

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Argentine authorities probe Milei official over bribery accusations, media report

23 Aug 2025 23 Aug 2025

By Leila Miller BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentine authorities on Friday raided a series of properties as part of an investigation into an alleged kickback scheme that threatens to embroil top officials, according to local media. Authorities confiscated cellphones and a cash counting machine in a raid at the home of Diego Spagnuolo, who until this …

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Bolsonaro’s defense says drafted asylum request not evidence of flight risk

23 Aug 2025 23 Aug 2025

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Lawyers for former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told the Supreme Court on Friday that the draft of a request for asylum in Argentina found on his phone by police cannot be considered an indication of flight risk, since it was dated last year. “The fact is that, with or without the draft, …

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Court upholds Connecticut assault weapons ban adopted after Sandy Hook school shooting

22 Aug 2025 22 Aug 2025

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a Connecticut ban on assault weapons the state adopted after a gunman in 2012 killed 20 school children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. A three-judge panel of the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the …

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Fleeing Maduro then Trump, Venezuelans seek refuge in Spain

22 Aug 2025 22 Aug 2025

By Corina Pons and Charlie Devereux MADRID (Reuters) -After surviving the perilous trek through the jungle of Panama’s Darien Gap with his wife and three daughters to reach the United States, Venezuelan policeman Alberto Peña thought he had found a haven from the persecution he says he fled from back home. But two years later, …

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Fed’s Powell says monetary policy framework back on more traditional footing

22 Aug 2025 22 Aug 2025

By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday announced an updated operating framework more oriented toward traditional efforts of promoting price stability, supplanting what had been a troubled effort that biased central bank policy toward its job mandate over its inflation target. Nodding toward significant changes in the economic landscape over the …

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