By Eric Onstad LONDON (Reuters) – Four decades ago, a rare earth processing plant on France’s Atlantic coast was one of the largest in the world, churning out materials used to make colour televisions, arc lights and camera lenses. Its current owner Solvay is racing to return the plant at La Rochelle to its former …
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By Brendan O’Boyle (Reuters) – Bolivian President Luis Arce, a mild-mannered and bespectacled former economy minister, faced down a coup attempt on Wednesday, as the armed forces withdrew after occupying the central square in La Paz and entering the presidential palace. Arce, 60, won election in 2020 after a period of deep political turmoil. A …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian man was charged with a terrorism offence on Thursday after walking into a politician’s electorate office with plans to kill him, the authorities and local media said. The 19-year-old man entered the office of New South Wales state parliamentarian Tim Crakanthorp in Newcastle, about 170 km (105 miles) north of …
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LA PAZ (Reuters) -Heavily armed soldiers and armored vehicles gathered in Bolivia’s capital La Paz on Wednesday, with an armored vehicle seen knocking into the entrance of the presidential palace. The events stirred fears of a military coup and condemnation from President Luis Arce, international counterparts and top Bolivian political figures. Here are some reactions …
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By Moira Warburton and Allende Miglietta WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. swimming great Michael Phelps told a congressional panel on Tuesday that anti-doping measures “have fallen short” in a case involving Chinese swimmers ahead of this summer’s Paris Olympics. Phelps, fellow gold medalist Allison Schmitt and Travis Tygart, chief executive for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, testified …
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By Kirsty Needham, Lewis Jackson and Michael Holden CANBERRA/SYDNEY/LONDON (Reuters) – After Julian Assange was released by a court on the remote U.S. Pacific territory of Saipan on Wednesday, ending a 14-year legal battle, the WikiLeaks founder’s lawyer first thanked Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for making the outcome possible. Jennifer Robinson, the Australian attorney …
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranians choose a president on Friday in a tightly controlled election following Ebrahim Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash last month, with the outcome expected to influence the succession to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s top decision-maker. With Iran’s supreme leader now 85, it is likely that the next president will …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel will spend the coming weeks trying to resolve the conflict with Lebanon’s Iran-backed group Hezbollah and would prefer a diplomatic solution, Israel’s national security adviser said on Tuesday. National security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said Israel had been discussing with U.S. officials the possibility that an expected end of intense Israeli military …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday demanded that big consumer technology firms take responsibility and “acknowledge the damage your products are inflicting on people and communities.” Taking aim at the companies, which he did not name, and their social media platforms, he said: “You have the power …
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By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) – A veteran of Ukraine’s 2014 revolution who is now fighting Russian forces, Yehor Sobolev knows the price of Kyiv’s decade-long drive to join the European Union as well as anyone. Having backed tough reforms as a lawmaker after the pro-democracy uprising 10 years ago, he says he will look …
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