By Luis Jaime Acosta and Nelson Bocanegra BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia’s violence took a new turn on Tuesday as a series of bomb attacks rocked the nation’s southwest, while Senator Miguel Uribe continued fighting for his life days after being shot in the head during a campaign rally. The incidents have shaken the nation and harkened …
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(Reuters) -New York and more than two dozen other U.S. states sued 23andMe to challenge the sale of its customers’ private information after the genetic testing company filed for bankruptcy in March. Twenty seven states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan and Florida, and the District of Columbia filed the lawsuit on Monday in 23andMe’s U.S. bankruptcy proceedings …
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By Amanda Stephenson CALGARY (Reuters) -The U.S. relies on Canadian oil imports, despite comments to the contrary by U.S. President Donald Trump, Cenovus Energy CEO said on Tuesday. Trump has threatened on-again, off-again tariffs on Canada’s oil, of which nearly 4 million barrels per day are exported to the United States. Canada is the world’s …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration imposed sanctions on a leading Palestinian human rights organization as well as five charity groups in the Middle East and Europe on Tuesday, accusing them of supporting Palestinian militants including Hamas. The rights group targeted is Addameer, which provides legal services to Palestinians detained by Israel or the Palestinian Authority …
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By Jana Choukeir DUBAI (Reuters) -Israel stepped up pressure on Yemen’s Houthis on Tuesday, deploying its navy to hit targets in the Red Sea port of Hodeidah and threatening the Iran-aligned movement with a naval and air blockade if attacks on Israel persist. Houthi-run Al Masirah TV said Israel carried out two strikes on the …
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PARIS (Reuters) -France said on Tuesday it had obtained new commitments from the Palestinian Authority to reform, ahead of a conference next week at which Paris could become the most prominent Western power to back recognition of an independent Palestinian state. President Emmanuel Macron has received a letter from Mahmoud Abbas in which the Palestinian …
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By Anastasiia Malenko and Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Russia launched one of its largest air strikes on Kyiv in over three years of war and struck a maternity ward in the southern city of Odesa in attacks that killed at least three people, officials said on Tuesday. The overnight strikes followed Russia’s biggest drone assault …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -The Israeli military said on Tuesday that a missile launched from Yemen toward Israel had “most likely” been intercepted, hours after Israel deployed its navy to hit targets in the Yemeni Red Sea port of Hodeidah. Israel threatened Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement – which has been attacking Israel in what it says is …
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By Aleksandar Vasovic KYIV (Reuters) -Russia and Ukraine said they exchanged an unspecified number of sick and wounded prisoners of war on Tuesday under an agreement reached at peace talks last week in Turkey. The handover took place after an initial swap of prisoners under the age of 25 was conducted on Monday. “Today marks …
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MADRID (Reuters) -A gunman killed at least nine people at a secondary school in the southern Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, in the worst school shooting in the country’s modern history. Here is a timeline of some of the worst shooting incidents in Europe in the past four decades: May 1987 – BELGIUM – …
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