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By Miranda Murray CANNES, France (Reuters) -“Anora,” a darkly funny and touching drama about a young exotic dancer who becomes involved with a Russian oligarch’s son, won the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or, on Saturday. The film by U.S. director Sean Baker beat the 21 other films in the competition line-up, including …

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By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli ministers dismissed Friday’s ruling by the International Court of Justice ordering Israel to cease its military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, vowing to continue fighting to free its hostages and defeat Hamas. Friday’s ruling by the World Court was the latest in a series of …

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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Boeing and NASA quelled two technical issues on the company’s Starliner spacecraft, including a “design vulnerability” requiring a temporary workaround, to get the capsule back on track for its first mission carrying two astronauts to space, officials said on Friday. Starliner’s debut crewed mission, a high-stakes test now planned …

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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -Three Christian missionaries from Missions in Haiti were shot and killed in an ambush by a gang in Haiti, the Oklahoma-based group said on Friday. The missionaries were taking shelter in a house when gang members began shooting at the residence at about 9 p.m. CDT (0200 GMT) Thursday, the group …

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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Former U.S. Marine pilot Daniel Duggan can be extradited from Australia to face U.S. charges of training Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers, a Sydney magistrate ruled on Friday. Duggan, 55, a naturalised Australian citizen, is facing U.S. charges including money laundering and breaking arms control law …

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By Debora Ely PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) – Heavy rains once again pounded parts of Brazil’s southernmost state on Thursday, ruining days-long clean-up efforts and flooding areas which had previously been untouched in Rio Grande do Sul’s capital city of Porto Alegre. Record flooding over the past month has killed 163 people and displaced around …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations has resumed transporting humanitarian aid arriving at a U.S.-built pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip after deliveries were halted for two days because some truckloads of aid were intercepted by needy Palestinians. Aid deliveries began arriving at a U.S.-built pier on Friday as …

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By Puyaan Singh and Leroy Leo (Reuters) -Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday recommended for the approval of Guardant Health’s blood test to detect a cancer that begins in the colon or rectum. The panel voted seven-to-two in favor of benefits outweighing risks when using the test called Shield for colorectal …

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By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – Vaccination of boys and men against the human papillomavirus (HPV) reduces their risk of head and neck cancers and other malignancies, a new analysis shows, adding to the vaccine’s proven benefit in protecting women from cervical cancer. The study of more than 3.4 million people is one of the first …

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