By Joey Roulette and Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Tuesday directed NASA to establish a unified standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies, as the United States aims to set international norms in space amid a growing lunar race among nations and private companies. The head of the …
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By Jonathan Landay and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Tuesday said it was not involved in an Israeli airstrike on Iran’s embassy compound in the Syrian capital of Damascus that killed two Iranian generals and five military advisers. White House national security spokesman John Kirby dismissed as “nonsense” Iranian charges of U.S. …
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – More than 53,000 people fled Haiti’s capital in just three weeks of March as conflict between powerful armed gangs wreaked havoc for civilians, with the state largely absent and a path out of the chaos yet to be established by politicians. Tens of thousands of people left Port-au-Prince’s metropolitan area between March …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Ukrainian drone struck Russia’s third-largest oil refinery on Tuesday about 1,300 km (800 miles) from the front lines, hitting a unit that processes about 155,000 barrels of crude per day, though an industry source said strike caused no critical damage. A Ukrainian intelligence source said Ukraine …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran will retaliate for a suspected Israeli air strike against its consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday, a day after seven Iranian military commanders were killed in the attack. “Having failed to destroy the will of the resistance front, the Zionist regime (Israel) has put …
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TEL AVIV (Reuters) – An explosion woke Luis Har in the middle of the night and he rolled off his mattress seeking cover. This was it, he thought, expecting the building where he was being held captive to collapse. Then came the massive gunfire. And someone shouted his name and called out: “It’s the IDF, …
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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -A powerful ally of President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that NATO was basically fighting Russia in Ukraine and that the U.S.-led military alliance had helped organise strikes on sovereign Russian territory. Putin’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine has triggered the worst crisis in relations between Russia and the West …
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By Ralph Tedy Erol PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Panic set in around downtown Port-au-Prince on Monday as wild shooting filled the streets of Haiti’s capital, with heavy gunfire approaching the national palace. Reuters saw civilians rush to escape gunfire in the capital, where rival gangs are vying for control of turf while the state remains largely …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. government has asked the Mexican government to review allegations that a parts factory in that Nuevo Leon has denied workers their labor rights, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative said on Monday. Washington wants Mexico to review whether workers at the plant are being denied the right to freedom of …
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By Humeyra Pamuk, Patricia Zengerle and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration is weighing whether to go ahead with a major $18 billion package of arms transfers to Israel that would involve dozens of F-15 aircraft and munitions, three sources familiar with the matter said on Monday. The sale of 25 F-15s from Boeing …
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