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Factbox-Who are the Pakistani Baloch separatist militants behind train hijacking?

11 Mar 2025 11 Mar 2025

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Separatist militant group the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed that they had taken hostages during an attack on a train carrying hundreds of people, including paramilitary troops, in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday and threatened to kill them. The BLA is the strongest of a number of insurgent groups long operating in the …

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Argentina starts trial over death of soccer icon Maradona

11 Mar 2025 11 Mar 2025

By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina began a long-awaited trial on Tuesday of the medical team for soccer star Diego Maradona, over four years after his death in 2020, in a case that has riled emotions in the South American country where the World Cup winner is still revered. Maradona’s family, lawyers and …

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Kenya HIV patients live in fear as US aid freeze strands drugs in warehouse

11 Mar 2025 11 Mar 2025

By Aaron Ross, Tim Cocks and Vivianne Wandera NAIROBI (Reuters) – The health clinic where Alice Okwirry collects her HIV medication in Kenya’s capital Nairobi has been rationing supplies of antiretrovirals to one-month refills since the U.S. government froze foreign aid. On the outskirts of the city, meanwhile, millions of life-saving doses sit on the …

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Countries, global health groups band together as US aid gaps threaten lives

11 Mar 2025 11 Mar 2025

By Jennifer Rigby and Aaron Ross LONDON/NAIROBI (Reuters) -Governments and global health groups are working to try to fill the most urgent gaps in the fight against diseases such as malaria and HIV, including sharing tests and treatments internationally, after the U.S. government froze foreign aid funding. The Trump administration said this week it has …

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Six killed in West Bank as Israeli troops clamp down

11 Mar 2025 11 Mar 2025

By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH (Reuters) – Five Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, were killed by Israeli forces in Jenin over the past 24 hours, the Palestinian Authority said on Tuesday, adding to a growing toll from one of the largest operations seen in the West Bank in years. Another man, who was wanted over previous …

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Ukraine says it struck oil facilities in Russia’s Moscow, Oryol regions

11 Mar 2025 11 Mar 2025

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine said on Tuesday it had struck an oil refinery near Moscow and a facility in Russia’s Oryol region that is part of the Druzhba pipeline system exporting oil to Europe. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Tuesday that crude oil shipment via the pipeline was suspended after a Ukrainian drone …

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Russia hands long jail term to man convicted of trying to kill ex-lawmaker at Ukraine’s behest

11 Mar 2025 11 Mar 2025

(Reuters) – A Russian military court sentenced a man from Moscow-annexed Crimea to 24 years in prison on Tuesday for attempting to kill a former pro-Russian member of the Ukrainian parliament as part of a network of Ukrainian agents operating in the peninsula. The court in the southern city of Rostov found Pyotr Zhitsky, a …

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WHO starts slimming down in response to US cuts, document shows

11 Mar 2025 11 Mar 2025

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization has begun fixing priorities and announced a one-year limit on staff contracts, an internal memo showed on Tuesday, as it aims to ensure its survival after the U.S. withdrew in January. The memo, dated March 10 and signed by WHO’s Assistant Director-General Raul Thomas, laid out further …

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Brazil suspends Voepass airline operations months after deadly crash

11 Mar 2025 11 Mar 2025

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian aviation regulator ANAC on Tuesday suspended the operations of regional airline Voepass citing safety concerns, around seven months after a crash near Sao Paulo killed all 62 people on board one of its aircraft. The move is the latest blow to Voepass following the crash, one of the world’s deadliest …

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Sweden prosecutes ex-security adviser for leaving secret papers at hotel

11 Mar 2025 11 Mar 2025

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish prosecutors on Tuesday charged the government’s former national security adviser with careless handling of secret information after he allegedly forgot documents at a conference hotel in 2023, the indictment showed. Prosecutors said in the indictment that Henrik Landerholm had through negligence disclosed “information relating to conditions of a secret nature and …

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