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Trump says Putin will free jailed US reporter Gershkovich for him

23 May 2024

By Doina Chiacu and Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday he will use his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin to get Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich freed from a Russian prison. The assertion was ridiculed by the campaign of Democratic President Joe Biden, which cited Trump’s frequent …

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Live Nation ‘suffocates its competition,’ US says in monopoly lawsuit

23 May 2024

By Sarah N. Lynch, David Shepardson and Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department and more than two dozen states on Thursday sued to break up Live Nation, arguing the big concert promoter and its Ticketmaster unit illegally inflated concert ticket prices and hurt artists. “It is time to break up Live Nation,” said …

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In riot-scarred New Caledonia, France’s Macron delays voting reform

23 May 2024

By Tassilo Hummel and Kirsty Needham NOUMEA/SYDNEY (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday after a day of talks in New Caledonia that he would delay a voting reform that had triggered deadly riots on the French-ruled Pacific island, and try to seek a new political agreement. Speaking in the capital Noumea after meeting …

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Thai hospital says 20 people from Singapore Airlines flight remain in intensive care

23 May 2024

By Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) -Twenty people who were aboard a Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence and diverted to Bangkok for an emergency landing on Tuesday remain in intensive care, a hospital official said on Thursday. “The number of patients in ICU remain the same,” Adinun Kittiratanapaibool, Director of Bangkok’s Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital …

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Israel releases film of women soldiers being taken by Hamas on Oct. 7

23 May 2024

By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli television aired previously withheld footage on Wednesday of five pyjama-clad female army conscripts being seized by Hamas gunmen during the Oct. 7 raid that triggered the Gaza war. The captives’ families hoped the footage would increase pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree a truce with Hamas and …

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Blinken says US-Saudi pacts could be ‘weeks away’ from completion

22 May 2024

By Humeyra Pamuk, Simon Lewis and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday said the United States and Saudi Arabia were very close to concluding a set of agreements on nuclear energy, security and defense cooperation, which are part of a wider normalisation deal with Riyadh and Israel. Speaking at …

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New routes planned for halted Gaza aid from US-built pier

22 May 2024

(This May 21 story has been refiled to clarify hostage numbers in paragraphs 16 and 17) By Michelle Nichols and Idrees Ali UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United Nations has planned new routes within the Gaza Strip to transport aid from a U.S.-built floating pier after crowds of desperate Palstinians intercepted 11 trucks, causing a …

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Russia dismisses U.S. claim that Moscow put an anti-satellite weapon in space

22 May 2024

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s top arms control diplomat on Wednesday dismissed as fake news an assertion by the United States that Russia had launched a weapon into low-Earth orbit that was capable of inspecting and attacking other satellites. The Kremlin has flatly denied assertions by U.S. officials that Moscow is developing a …

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Norway, along with Ireland and Spain, to recognise Palestinian state

22 May 2024

By Nerijus Adomaitis and Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) -Norway will recognise an independent Palestinian state in the hope that this will help to bring peace with Israel, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said on Wednesday. Ireland and Spain will also announce the recognition of a Palestinian state, sources said on Wednesday. European Union members Slovenia …

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Russian patriotic bloggers express anger at arrest of former commander

22 May 2024

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian patriotic bloggers expressed anger on Wednesday over the arrest of the former commander of Russia’s 58th army, who was detained for fraud, and cast him as a talented general who had the courage to speak the truth to incompetent superiors. Russia’s state news agency TASS reported on Tuesday that Major General …

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