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By Maya Gebeily and Maayan Lubell BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli artillery and airstrikes hit south Lebanon on Saturday after Israel said it had intercepted rockets fired from across the border, killing at least eight people and endangering a shaky truce that ended a year-long war between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. That conflict marked the …

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By Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a potential challenger to longtime President Tayyip Erdogan, appeared in a Turkish court on Saturday for the first time since his detention on Wednesday for alleged corruption and terrorism. Thousands of people gathered outside the Istanbul municipality building and the main courthouse, with hundreds of police …

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By Emily Rose TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday against the decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service and resume fighting in Gaza. Netanyahu said this week he had lost confidence in Ronen Bar, who has led …

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By Rocky Swift (Reuters) – American George Foreman, one of the great second acts in sports, who reclaimed the heavyweight boxing title at age 45 and became a celebrated product pitchman, died on Friday at age 76. “With profound sorrow, we announce the passing of our beloved George Edward Foreman Sr. who peacefully departed on …

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By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) – The top diplomats from Japan, China and South Korea met in Tokyo on Saturday, seeking common ground on East Asian security and economic issues amid escalating global uncertainty. “Given the increasingly severe international situation, I believe we may truly be at a turning point in history,” Japanese Foreign Minister …

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SAN JOSE (Reuters) -The official YouTube account of Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves came back under government control late on Friday after the platform suffered an hours-long cyber attack earlier in the day. According to a presidential statement, experts from the president’s office, the science and technology ministry as well as Google, worked to resolve …

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By Kanishka Singh and Maximilian Heath WASHINGTON/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -The U.S. government on Friday barred Argentina’s former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and a former senior official from entering the United States, after the pair were implicated in “significant corruption” in a prolonged legal saga in Argentina. Fernandez de Kirchner, a leftist former two-term president …

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