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Musk calls Lebanese president as Starlink seeks license

26 Jun 2025

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Billionaire businessman Elon Musk and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun spoke by phone to discuss making elements of Musk’s sprawling business empire available in Lebanon, a statement from Aoun’s office said on Thursday. The statement said Musk called Aoun and “expressed his interest in Lebanon and its telecommunications and internet sectors”. Aoun invited Musk …

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Olympics-US committed ‘across the board’ to LA 2028 success, says Coventry

26 Jun 2025

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) -The United States and all its levels of government are fully committed to making the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics a success, new International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry said on Thursday. Zimbabwe’s former Olympic swimming champion Coventry officially took over the presidency from Thomas Bach this week following Monday’s ceremony in …

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Russia captures village in eastern Ukraine near lithium deposit, Russian-backed official says

26 Jun 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian troops have taken control of a village in eastern Ukraine which is close to a lithium deposit after fierce resistance from Ukrainian forces, a Russian-backed official said on Thursday. The village of Shevchenko is located in Donetsk, one of four Ukrainian regions – in addition to Crimea – that Moscow has claimed …

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Harvard scientist accused of smuggling frog embryos indicted on new charges

26 Jun 2025

By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A Russian-born scientist at Harvard University accused of smuggling frog embryos into the United States was indicted on Wednesday on additional charges nearly two weeks after her lawyers secured her release from U.S. custody. Federal prosecutors in Boston said a grand jury returned an indictment charging Kseniia Petrova, 30, with …

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Mass shooting in gang-plagued Mexican state leaves 12 dead and more injured

26 Jun 2025

By Lizbeth Diaz and Raul Cortes MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -At least 12 people were killed, including a teenager, and more wounded in a Tuesday night shooting in the central Mexican city of Irapuato, authorities said on Wednesday. The attorney general’s office in Guanajuato, the violence-plagued state where Irapuato is located, said some 20 others were …

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South Korea nuclear watchdog approves first dismantlement of nuclear power plant

26 Jun 2025

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission approved on Thursday the first dismantlement of a nuclear power plant in the country, the Kori-1, which was permanently shut down in 2017 after 39 years of operation, it said in a statement. The panel authorised a plan by the nuclear operator Korea Hydro and Nuclear …

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Turkey hopes for progress on F-35 jets after Trump meeting, Erdogan says

26 Jun 2025

ANKARA (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey has not given up on acquiring F-35 fighter jets from the United States and has conveyed its desire to rejoin the programme from which it was removed over its purchase of Russian defence systems. Speaking to reporters on a return flight from a NATO summit in The Hague …

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Erdogan says Trump would join Ukraine peace talks in Turkey if Putin attends

26 Jun 2025

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump told him he would attend potential peace talks between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia in Turkey, if Russian President Vladimir Putin also agreed to take part. On his return flight from the NATO summit, where he met Trump for the first time …

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Departing US top official in Hong Kong criticises reach of national security law

26 Jun 2025

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -The top American diplomat in Hong Kong on Thursday criticised Hong Kong’s use of the national security law to jail prominent campaigners for democracy, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai, and engage in the “transnational repression” of activists abroad. Gregory May, the departing consul general of the United States in …

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Thai PM, former Cambodian leader visit disputed border as tensions simmer

26 Jun 2025

By Athit Perawongmetha ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand (Reuters) -Thailand’s prime minister and Cambodia’s influential former premier are visiting different parts of their disputed land border on Thursday as tensions simmer between the two neighbours over a territorial dispute and the Thai government teeters on the brink of collapse. The deterioration of relations was sparked by brief armed …

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