By Max Hunder and Tom Balmforth (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy postponed his visit to Saudi Arabia in order to not give “legitimacy” to Tuesday’s meeting between U.S. and Russian officials in Riyadh, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Speaking earlier on Tuesday in Turkey, Zelenskiy said he had postponed his visit to …
(Reuters) – A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Atacama, Chile on Tuesday the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake’s depth was 29 kilometres (18.02 miles)below the earth’s surface, EMSC said. (Reporting by Anusha Shah in Bengaluru)
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said on Tuesday that it was “insulting” to speculate that bribes where involved in the case of libertarian President Javier Milei promoting a cryptocurrency that rapidly slumped. “We understand there was no attitude that went against public ethics,” Adorni said in a press conference, saying there …
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish police have detained 282 suspects accused of ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, militant group, the government said on Tuesday, among them journalists, politicians, and academics. The raids of the last five days took place as Turkey continues to remove elected pro-Kurdish mayors from their posts over militant …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Florida man was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted murder after shooting at a vehicle with two men who he thought were Palestinians but turned out to be Israeli visitors, local authorities said. The website of Miami-Dade County Corrections says the suspect, 27-year-old Mordechai Brafman, was charged …
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By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Families of some Israeli hostages in Gaza have received signs of life from their loved ones for the first time in more than a year via captives who have been freed over the past weeks in the ceasefire deal with Hamas. The messages, along with reports of their harsh …
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KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza (Reuters) – Palestinian medic and ambulance worker Tarek Rabie Safi, freed from an Israeli jail as part of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, said he was underfed and abused during almost a year in captivity. Safi, a 39-year-old father of two, was released along with 368 other Palestinian detainees on …
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LIMA (Reuters) – The leader of an indigenous community in Peru asked for the government to declare a state of emergency on Monday and accused illegal miners of using children as “human shields” in the Amazon. He will ask the Peruvian government to declare a state of emergency in the area to allow the eviction …
By Ueslei Marcelino PORTO VELHO, Brazil – Brazilian environmental agents seized the equivalent of more than 5,000 truckloads of timber in an operation targeting one of the most heavily logged regions of the Amazon rainforest in recent weeks, officials told Reuters. The raids kicked off a year-long project called Operation Maravalha, named after a type …
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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) – The 23-year-old Syrian refugee believed to have killed a teenager and injured five other people in a weekend stabbing rampage in the Austrian town of Villach became radicalised quickly by using TikTok, officials said on Monday. The suspect, identified as Ahmad G., had the flag of the Islamic State …
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