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KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -A concentrated, nine-minute-long Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv on Wednesday killed six people and injured 64, including nine children, Ukrainian officials said. The attack followed Russia’s two biggest air assaults of the war on Ukraine this week, part of intensified bombardments that Moscow says are retaliatory measures for …

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By Kirsty Needham, Renju Jose and David Brunnstrom SYDNEY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Thursday he was confident the AUKUS submarine pact with the U.S. and Britain would proceed, and his government would work closely with the U.S. while the Trump administration conducted a formal review. Australia in 2023 committed to spend …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A former CIA analyst who pleaded guilty in January over a leak of classified Israeli plans to strike Iran was sentenced to 37 months in prison on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice said. In pleading guilty, Asif William Rahman, who had worked at the U.S. intelligence agency since 2016, …

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By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that social media companies must be held accountable for some types of content published by users on their platforms in the country, but details on the decision have yet to be resolved. Six of the 11 Supreme Court judges voted to hold platforms responsible …

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BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia’s leftist President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday signed a decree to hold a referendum on labor reforms, an attempt to force the Senate to vote on a proposal on the matter before their session wraps up later this month. The referendum proposal seeks to limit the working day, increase the surcharge for Sunday …

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By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has launched a formal review of former President Joe Biden’s AUKUS defense pact with Australia and Britain to allow Australia to acquire nuclear-powered submarines, a U.S. defense official said. Australia, which sees the submarines as critical to its own defense …

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By Dawn Chmielewski LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Walt Disney and Comcast’s Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a “bottomless pit of plagiarism” for its use of the studios’ best-known characters. The suit, filed in federal district court in Los Angeles, claims Midjourney pirated the libraries of the …

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