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By Anna Voitenko MYKOLAIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Pensioner Tetiana Beibyko tapped approvingly at the polyethylene window installed in her home in eastern Ukraine after shelling shattered the glass windows of her five-storey block. More than 28 months since Russia’s full-scale invasion, fighting has destroyed about 10 million windows in Ukraine, according to the organisation Insulate …

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By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) – The remote Canadian town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay had only a few hours’ notice on Friday before thousands of evacuees from a raging wildfire hundreds of kilometres (miles) away came streaming into the community. The 7,000 residents of Happy Valley-Goose Bay took the sudden influx in stride, doing …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Major U.S. aviation groups and unions urged Congress to address persistent shortfalls in funding for Federal Aviation Administration facilities after a series of reports raised alarm about aging air traffic control facilities. “Necessary maintenance of existing systems is being neglected,” said the letter signed by Airlines for America, Aerospace Industries …

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(Reuters) -Apple’s shares rose 2.5% to a record high on Monday after Morgan Stanley raised its price target on the iPhone maker’s shares and designated the stock as a “top pick,” citing the company’s AI efforts as a boost to device sales. In what was seen as a move to catch up with Alphabet’s Google …

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(Reuters) -Ramon Jesurun, the head of Colombia’s soccer federation, and his son Ramon Jamil Jesurun were arrested in Miami after the dramatic final of the Copa America during which ticketless fans attempted to break into the stadium, according to media reports and jail records. Sunday’s final, which Colombia lost to Argentina, started over an hour …

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By Marco Aquino and Alexander Villegas LIMA (Reuters) – Alberto Fujimori, 85, who governed Peru with an iron fist for a decade and fled the country amid corruption scandals and human rights violations, plans to run for president amid a cloud of uncertainty and fractured politics. His daughter Keiko, who unsuccessfully ran for president three …

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(Reuters) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Sunday he would require CenterPoint Energy to take immediate action to improve its hurricane preparation and response efforts to power outages reported in the greater Houston area due to Hurricane Beryl. Abbott said he also asked the Public Utility Commission (PUC) of Texas to launch an investigation …

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By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Monday kicks off what is shaping up as a key week of commentary from U.S. central bank officials taking stock of slowed inflation and mulling whether to signal the start of interest rate cuts because of it. The Fed meets July 30-31, but …

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LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian former President Alberto Fujimori will run for the post again in the 2026 election, his daughter Keiko Fujimori said on messaging platform X on Sunday. Fujimori, who is 85 and suffers from health problems, was serving a 25-year prison term for human rights abuses when he released from jail late last …

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TORONTO (Reuters) – A fairly controlled fire grew to a 10,000-hectare inferno over the course of a day, causing 9,600 residents of an eastern Canadian community to flee and putting a nearby community on evacuation alert. The fire northwest of Labrador City, in western Newfoundland and Labrador, was “deemed fully under control” as recently as …

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