By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Friday he was ready to travel to Iran to assess the situation there after Israel carried out widespread military strikes that hit the sprawling nuclear complex at Natanz. In a statement to a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of …
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By Leila Miller BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Argentina’s leading opposition leader and a two-time former president, has petitioned a lower court to allow her to serve a sentence for corruption under house arrest, citing how several years ago she narrowly survived an assassination attempt. The petition, which Kirchner shared on X on …
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By Ope Adetayo LAGOS (Reuters) -Nigeria’s Ogoni activists on Friday rejected a posthumous pardon for nine members executed three decades ago by a military dictatorship, criticising President Bola Tinubu’s move as inadequate and perpetuating injustice. To commemorate Nigeria’s Democracy Day on June 12, Tinubu pardoned the men, known as the “Ogoni Nine”, including writer Ken …
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By Sudipto Ganguly and Adnan Abidi AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) -Dozens of anxious family members sat outside an Indian hospital on Friday waiting to collect bodies of loved ones killed in the Air India plane crash, as doctors worked to gather dental samples from the deceased and run identification checks. In the world’s worst aviation disaster …
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(Corrects Fitrell’s title in paragraph 2) KINSHASA (Reuters) -The United States is pressing for swift progress in peace negotiations between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with a senior U.S. diplomat underscoring an “extremely aggressive timeline” for a potential agreement as early as June or July. Troy Fitrell, the senior U.S. bureau official …
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By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) -Kosovo has accepted a request to receive migrants deported from the United States, with an initial plan to take in 50 deportees per year, the government said in a statement to Reuters on Wednesday. “The government has expressed its readiness to participate, with the opportunity to select individuals from a …
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By Jan Lopatka and Jason Hovet PRAGUE (Reuters) -U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is seeking to build bi-partisan support in Congress to keep operating when approved financing ends later this year, its president Stephen Capus said. Started in 1950 to broadcast to communist-run countries during the Cold War, RFE/RL still reaches millions in eastern Europe, …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said Iran, its strategic ally, was “paying the price” for supporting militant groups in Gaza in their decades-long struggle against Israel, after Israel launched large-scale attacks on Friday against Iran. Hamas leaders have repeatedly thanked Iran for its military and financial support to the group in its fight …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran said several top commanders and six nuclear scientists were killed in Israeli strikes on Friday targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities, ballistic missile factories and military commanders to prevent Tehran from developing an atomic weapon. At least 20 senior Iranian commanders, including the head of the revolutionary guards, Aerospace Force Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh, …
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VIENNA (Reuters) -The 21-year-old man behind Austria’s worst school shooting posted on social media from the building just before he shot dead 10 people then killed himself this week, Austrian newspapers reported on Friday. Police described the Austrian as an introvert and an avid player of online shooting games who had largely withdrawn from the …
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