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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Israel on Friday defended its raid on a north Gaza hospital last week while the U.N. human rights chief called the justification unsubstantiated and the World Health Organization urged Israel to release the hospital’s director from detention. Israel’s U.N. ambassador in Geneva, Daniel Meron, posted on social media …

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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republican leader John Thune faces the test of his career this year as he tries to steer Donald Trump’s agenda through a narrowly divided Congress while protecting his own chamber’s authority over Cabinet picks and spending. A 20-year Senate veteran, Thune became Senate majority leader on Friday when …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department and Boeing told a court on Friday they have not reached agreement on a revised plea deal after a U.S. judge in December rejected the deal, faulting a diversity and inclusion provision. Boeing and the government “continue to work in good faith toward” a new agreement, …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and James Mackenzie CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel has carried out airstrikes on dozens of Hamas targets in Gaza over the past 24 hours, it said on Friday, in attacks that Palestinian health authorities said had killed more than 110 people in two days. The surge in operations and casualties comes amid a renewed …

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By Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL (Reuters) -GE Aerospace, whose joint venture made the engines of the Boeing airplane that crashed in the deadliest aviation disaster on South Korean soil, joined the investigation as Seoul extended by a week special inspections of all 101 Boeing 737-800 jets. The transport ministry extended to Jan.10 its inspections following the …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration’s tougher oversight of Boeing will continue indefinitely, the agency’s outgoing head said on Friday, nearly a year after a door panel missing four key bolts flew off a new Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 in mid-air. The Jan. 5, 2024 incident prompted FAA Administrator Mike …

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By Alexandros Avramidis MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (Reuters) – The Ukrainian soldiers arrived in Greece with marks of war – one with a head scar, another with both legs amputated above the knee, some with invisible mental wounds from a three-year conflict that has ravaged their homeland. The men, 22 in all, had taken a bus …

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