By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Gaza health authorities said Israeli forces on Thursday shot dead more than 100 Palestinians as they waited for an aid delivery, but Israel blamed the deaths on crowds that surrounded aid trucks, saying victims had been trampled or run over. At least 112 people were killed and more than 280 …
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SAN JOSE (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s government committed human rights violations that amount to “crimes against humanity,” a United Nations-appointed team of human rights experts said in a report on Thursday. The report called for President Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, to be “held accountable by the international community” for widespread …
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – A wave of panic swept through downtown Port-au-Prince on Thursday, with an outburst of violence marked by heavy gunfire and improvised barricades, and a gang leader took responsibility saying it was a demonstration against authorities. The violent events took place on the same day Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry arrived in Kenya …
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By Burcu Karakas ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan’s government is seeking ways to curb the influence of Turkey’s Constitutional Court, prompted by its rulings to free a jailed opposition parliamentarian, according to a senior official and two legislators in the governing alliance. Turkey’s highest court ruled in October that Can Atalay’s ongoing imprisonment violated …
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(Reuters) -Coinbase Global said on Wednesday it was beginning to see improvement in customer trading after an issue caused some users to see zero balance across their accounts and may have led to errors in buying or selling. “We’re beginning to see improvement in customer trading. Due to increased traffic, some customers may still see …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer urged a judge on Tuesday to impose a lenient sentence for the FTX founder’s conviction for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, arguing clients would get most of their funds back. In a sentencing submission, Bankman-Fried’s lawyer Marc Mukasey told U.S. District …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Defense is monitoring a close pass between NASA’s Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics Mission (TIMED) spacecraft and the Russian Cosmos 2221 satellite, NASA said in a blog post early Wednesday. Although the spacecraft are expected to miss each other, a collision could result in significant debris, the U.S. …
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By Michele Kambas KOKKINOTRIMITHIA, Cyprus (Reuters) – On a cold winter evening in a car park in the Cypriot capital Nicosia, queues are already forming before former airline pilot Pantelis Panteli arrives in a small van to sell his produce. After being made redundant following the closure of Cyprus Airways in 2013, Panteli decided to …
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By Samia Nakhoul DUBAI (Reuters) -Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has received a draft proposal from Gaza truce talks in Paris which includes a 40-day pause in all military operations and the exchange of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli hostages at a ratio of 10 to one, a senior source close to the talks told Reuters on …
By Jeff Mason NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said Israel has agreed not to engage in military activities during Ramadan in the Gaza Strip, where it is at war with Hamas militants, and said the Jewish state risked losing support from the rest of the world as Palestinians die in high numbers. …
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