(This Oct. 24 story has been corrected to clarify that Atimpe is a researcher on preventing violent extremism, not an expert on extremist groups, in paragraph 25) By David Lewis and Maxwell Akalaare Adombila NAIROBI/ACCRA (Reuters) – Islamist militants fighting in Burkina Faso are discreetly using Ghana’s north as a logistical and medical rear base …
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(Reuters) – A Russian missile attack hit residences and a medical facility in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Friday evening, killing three people and injuring at least nine, regional governor Serhiy Lysak said. Lysak, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said an eight-year-old girl and a teenage boy and were among the injured. …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the murder of a rival in 2022 from his position as leader of the Chicago-based rap collective Only the Family, federal prosecutors said. The arrest took place on Thursday near an airport where Lil Durk, whose real name is …
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CARACAS (Reuters) -The local leader of a Venezuelan opposition party, Edwin Santos, was found dead on Friday morning, with government critics blaming the death on state security forces though the government has said he died in an accident. The 36-year-old co-founder of Voluntad Popular, who led a local branch in the country’s western Apure state, …
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QUITO (Reuters) – A criminal prosecutor in Ecuador was killed by armed assailants on Friday along with his police escort, in the latest eruption of violent crime to shake the South American nation. The attorney general’s office announced the death of Marcelo Vasconez and his guard in a post on social media, noting that both …
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BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has canceled the trips to the United Nations summits COP16 in Colombia and COP29 in Azerbaijan, his office said on Friday, following medical advice after he suffered a head injury last weekend. Lula underwent fresh medical exams on Friday, which showed he is in “stable” condition …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House was notified shortly before Israel carried out air strikes on Iran, Fox News reported on Friday. (Reporting by Eric Beech; editing by Costas Pitas)
By Ali Sawafta TUBAS, West Bank (Reuters) -In the West Bank city of Tubas, the Palestinian Authority has been rounding up militants who are spoiling for a fight with Israel and challenging its own rule, seeking to show it can help shape the future for Palestinians after the war in Gaza. President Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israel conducted air strikes in Iran, an Axios reporter said on Friday on social media platform X, citing two sources. (Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Costas Pitas)
(Reuters) – Meta Platforms said on Friday its artificial intelligence chatbot will use Reuters content to answer user questions in real time about news and current events, the latest AI tie-up between a big technology company and a news publisher. Neither Meta nor Reuters-parent Thomson Reuters disclosed the financial details of the partnership. The arrangement …
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