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By Mert Ozkan, Emilie Madi ANKARA (Reuters) -A new generation of young Turks is at the forefront of mass protests against President Tayyip Erdogan’s government, demanding change in a country they see as increasingly authoritarian. Demonstrations erupted after Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a popular opposition figure, was jailed pending trial on corruption charges. Unlike older …

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By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican candidates are projected to win two special elections in Florida on Tuesday, according to U.S. media organizations, boosting Republicans’ slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives by filling vacancies created by President Donald Trump’s picks for cabinet posts. The Republicans’ House majority will be 220 to 213 once …

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By David French (Reuters) -The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite both closed higher on Tuesday, after a topsy-turvy day on Wall Street dominated by investor angst ahead of the impending tariff announcements from the Trump administration. Financial markets have been volatile in recent weeks as investors assessed the economic fallout of U.S. President Donald …

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By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reinforced U.S. military capability in the Middle East with more warplanes, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, amid a more than two-week-old U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen and mounting tensions with Iran. The Pentagon’s brief statement did not specify which aircraft were …

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By Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actor Jack Black found the world of the Warner Bros film “A Minecraft Movie” easy to navigate because he had played the 2011 Swedish video game “Minecraft,” on which the movie is based. “I had (my) kids that were obsessed with ‘Minecraft’ years before I …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. Senate investigative subcommittee on Tuesday opened a review into efforts by Facebook parent Meta Platforms to gain access to the Chinese market and is seeking documents from the company. Senator Ron Johnson, who chairs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, joined by Senator Richard Blumenthal, the top Democrat, and …

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DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syria suffered a nationwide power outage on Tuesday night due to malfunctions at several points in the national grid, a spokesperson from the energy ministry told Reuters. The spokesperson said technical teams were addressing the issues. The power returned to the provinces of Homs, Hama and Tartous and will gradually return to the …

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By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian federal prosecutors charged former executives of retailer Americanas with fraud, a source in the prosecutors’ office told Reuters on Monday, while local media reported former CEO Miguel Gutierrez was among those targeted. Americanas had in early 2023 revealed accounting inconsistencies that led the company to file for bankruptcy, and …

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