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Israeli spy chief hands court scathing rebuke of Netanyahu bid to sack him

21 Apr 2025 21 Apr 2025

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The head of Israel’s domestic intelligence service said on Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bid to sack him followed his refusal to fulfil requests that included spying on Israeli protesters and disrupting the leader’s corruption trial. In an affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court, the head of Shin Bet, …

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US Supreme Court won’t save Minnesota age restriction on carrying guns

21 Apr 2025 21 Apr 2025

By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Minnesota can no longer enforce its law barring people younger than 21 years old from obtaining a permit to carry a handgun in public after the U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to hear its appeal of a judicial decision deeming the age restriction a violation of constitutional protections for …

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Zelenskiy says Ukraine sending delegation to London talks on settling war

21 Apr 2025 21 Apr 2025

(Reuters) – Ukainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Kyiv was sending a delegation to talks in London on Wednesday with Western countries on finding a resolution to the more than three-year-old war with Russia. “We are ready to move forward as constructively as possible, just as we have done before, to achieve an …

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Brother of Venezuelan migrant on the brink of US deportation pleas for help

21 Apr 2025 21 Apr 2025

CARACAS (Reuters) – The fate of Yonathan Betancourt, a 28-year-old Venezuelan detained in the United States, remains uncertain after his reported transfer to El Salvador was suspended, a relative said. Betancourt’s brother, Juan, said Yonathan was taken to an airport on April 18 but returned the next morning to the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Texas. …

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Catholics around the world mourn ‘humble’ Pope Francis

21 Apr 2025 21 Apr 2025

By Angelo Amante VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Members of the 1.4 billion-member global Catholic community expressed grief on Monday at the death of Pope Francis aged 88, many praising him as a humble man who stood up for the marginalised. At the Vatican, tourists and pilgrims there for Holy Week were dazed at the pontiff’s demise …

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NY Fed finds Americans trimming back wage expectations for new jobs

21 Apr 2025 21 Apr 2025

By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) -Americans’ view on labor markets soured in March as respondents to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey sharply trimmed back the payrate they said would get them to take a new job. The bank reported as part of its Survey of Consumer Expectations that the so-called …

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Kremlin hawk Patrushev says trust between Russia and U.S. should be restored

21 Apr 2025 21 Apr 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – One of the Kremlin’s most senior hawks, Nikolai Patrushev, said on Monday that trust between the two “great powers” of Russia and the United States should be restored and that Moscow was ready to resume cooperation with America in the Arctic. U.S. President Donald Trump has pivoted towards Russia in a bid …

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Putin says Easter ceasefire is over, Russia ‘positive’ on peace proposals

21 Apr 2025 21 Apr 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Fighting in Ukraine has resumed after the Easter ceasefire, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Monday, adding that Moscow was open to any peace initiatives and expected similar attitude from Kyiv. Both Ukraine and Russia accused each other of thousands of strikes and violating the Kremlin’s unilateral ceasefire during the Easter celebrations. …

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El Salvador proposes swapping US-deported Venezuelans for Venezuelan ‘political prisoners’

21 Apr 2025 21 Apr 2025

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Sunday proposed sending 252 Venezuelans deported from the U.S. and imprisoned in his country to Venezuela, in exchange for taking “political prisoners” held by Venezuela. In a post on X, Bukele asked that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hand over 252 “of the political prisoners you are …

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Taiwan sends condolences to Vatican, one of its few allies, on death of Pope Francis

21 Apr 2025 21 Apr 2025

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan will send envoys of the “appropriate level” to Pope Francis’ funeral given the deep friendship between the island and the Vatican, the Taiwanese foreign ministry said on Monday, expressing condolences to one of its few remaining allies. The Vatican is one of only 12 countries to maintain formal relations with diplomatically …

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