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KIGALI (Reuters) -Rwanda has arrested prominent opposition leader Victoire Ingabire on charges of inciting public disorder and creating a criminal organisation, a state investigative agency said – a move one of her lawyers said was politically motivated. Ingabire, who heads unregistered opposition party DALFA–Umurinzi, returned from exile to contest a presidential election in 2010, but …

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By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) -Africa’s push for local currency payments systems – once little more than an aspiration – is finally making concrete gains, bringing the promise of less costly trade to a continent long hobbled by resource-sapping dollar transactions. But efforts to move away from the dollar face strong opposition and the threat …

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By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia said on Friday it had suspended operations at its embassy in Tehran, citing a deteriorating security situation as Israel hit Iran’s nuclear facilities again, and the week-old air war showed no sign yet of an exit strategy from either side. Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Australian defence personnel and …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The New York City Police Department said on Thursday its hate crime unit was probing anti-Muslim threats against mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, and in another incident U.S. Representative Max Miller of Ohio said he was “run off the road” by a driver with a Palestinian flag. These marked the latest …

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By Emily Rose BEERSHEBA, Israel (Reuters) -Shattered glass and piles of rubble littered the floors of Soroka Medical Center on Thursday, after an Iranian missile ripped through the hospital in Israel’s south, injuring dozens. The major public hospital, which serves around 1 million people living in southern Israel, sustained extensive damage in the strike. Several …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump will decide in the next two weeks whether the U.S. will get involved in the Israel-Iran air war, the White House said on Thursday, raising pressure on Tehran to come to the negotiating table. Citing a message from Trump, White House Press Secretary Karoline …

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By Gram Slattery, Phil Stewart, Steve Holland and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Roughly one month ago, from the stage at an investment forum in Saudi Arabia, U.S. President Donald Trump issued a warning to Iran that would prove prophetic. “We’ll never allow America and its allies to be threatened with terrorism or nuclear attack,” Trump …

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By Julia Payne and Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European officials are increasingly resigned to a 10% rate on “reciprocal” tariffs being the baseline in any trade deal between the United States and the European Union, five sources familiar with the negotiations said. President Donald Trump has announced wide-ranging tariffs on trade partners and wants to …

EU increasingly resigned to 10% baseline tariff in US trade talks, European sources say Read More »