(Reuters) -Texas arrested a midwife for allegedly providing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of clinics in the Houston area, the state attorney general said on Monday. Texas has heavily restricted abortion since the federal right to the procedure was overturned in a Supreme Court ruling in 2022. In addition to arresting Maria Margarita …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) -As Israel resumes heavy strikes in the Gaza Strip, escalating Israeli attacks in south Lebanon have killed five Hezbollah members in the last few days, according to security sources in Lebanon, underlining the fragility of a U.S.-backed ceasefire. The war between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon marked the deadliest spillover of …
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By Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat (Reuters) – Despite a weeks-long multinational crackdown, scam centres along the Thai-Myanmar border are still operating with up to 100,000 people working there, the top police general leading Thailand’s operations against the fraud compounds told Reuters. Thailand is fronting a regional effort to dismantle scam centres along its borders, …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Itamar Ben-Gvir’s planned return to Israel’s government brings back a West Bank settler who has pressed for an intensification of the war in the Gaza Strip, even as the Palestinian death toll has exceeded 48,000. The announcement by Ben-Gvir, once a lynchpin of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightist-religious cabinet, followed airstrikes on …
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Players filed multiple lawsuits Tuesday against the ATP, WTA and other professional bodies, alleging that “tennis is broken” due to unfair business practices. The Professional Tennis Players Association and 22 players are accusing the two pro tours, the International Tennis Federation and the International Tennis Integrity Agency of anticompetitive business practices, monopolizing pro tennis and …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Olivia Le Poidevin CAIRO/GENEVA (Reuters) – Israel’s sudden onslaught of air strikes overnight overwhelmed Gaza hospitals already reeling from weeks of an aid blockade, medics and health authorities said on Tuesday, as ambulances ferried in hundreds of badly injured survivors. Video obtained by Reuters showed rescue workers running with stretchers across …
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By Joan Humberto Suazo TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) -A plane crashed just off the Caribbean coast of Honduras on Monday night minutes after taking off from Roatan Island, killing 12 people, authorities said, while five survived the crash and one person remains missing. The wreckage of the small Jetstream aircraft, operated by Honduran airline Lanhsa, was found …
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By Alexander Cornwell BNEI BRAK, Israel (Reuters) – One of Israel’s most divisive domestic issues has reared itself again to challenge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after a group in the ruling coalition said it would bring the government down unless it exempts ultra-Orthodox Jews from army service. Some members of United Torah Judaism, one of …
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By Ece Toksabay and Huseyin Hayatsever ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party said that President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling alliance had offered no clear steps during closed-door talks on Monday meant to advance a peace process after Kurdish militants pledged to disarm. In an interview late on Monday, Gulistan Kilic Kocyigit, the DEM Party’s deputy parliamentary …
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By Shivam Patel NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has asked the U.S. to list a Sikh separatist group as a terrorist organisation, an Indian government source said on Tuesday, more than a year after the U.S. said it had foiled a plot with Indian links to kill a leader of the group in the U.S. …
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