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By Renju Jose and Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) -An outage at No.2 Australian telco Optus left nearly half the population without internet or phone on Wednesday, throwing payment, transport and health systems into chaos and raising questions about the fragility of the country’s core infrastructure. The outage was first reported about 4 a.m. local time …

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By John Geddie and Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) -G7 foreign ministers are set to issue a joint statement on the Israel-Hamas war on Wednesday and are expected to call for temporary pauses in fighting to allow humanitarian aid into the besieged Gaza Strip. It would mark only the second joint statement from the group of …

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By Joseph Campbell and Maayan Lubell SHEFAYIM, Israel (Reuters) -It’s been a month since Avihai Brodutch spoke with his wife, Hagar. Hamas gunmen took her and their three children into Gaza in their deadly assault on Israeli villages on Oct 7. Brodutch, 42, describes 31 days of agony, not knowing how his family is being …

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By Amina Ismail CAIRO (Reuters) -It took four failed attempts before Suzan Beseiso was able to get through the Rafah crossing into Egypt and escape the bombardment of the Gaza Strip. On each occasion, the 31-year-old Palestinian American, one of several hundred foreign passport holders allowed to leave the enclave since last week, said she …

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(Reuters) – The United States is seeking to buy up to three million barrels of oil for delivery in January 2024 to replenish the country’s strategic petroleum reserve, the Department of Energy said on Monday. “This is the second solicitation for January 2024 delivery as DOE aims to purchase oil when it can purchase at a good …

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SEOUL (Reuters) – The United States, South Korea and Japan have agreed to launch a high-level consultative group on countering North Korean cyber activities that they say finance its unlawful weapons programs, South Korea’s presidential office said on Monday. Anne Neuberger, U.S. deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies, held talks with her …

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By Krishn Kaushik and Steve Scherer NEW DELHI/OTTAWA (Reuters) – Mending frayed diplomatic relations between India and Canada will be a long process after each side adopted maximalist positions, despite New Delhi’s surprise move to ease some visa curbs on Canadians, officials and experts say. India recently decided to partially restore visa services, weeks after …

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CAIRO (Reuters) – Evacuations of injured Gazans and foreign passport holders through the Rafah crossing to Egypt have been suspended since Saturday, but Egyptian, U.S. and Qatari officials said there were efforts to resume them. The evacuations were suspended after an Israeli strike on Friday on an ambulance in Gaza being used to transport injured …

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By Jose Luis Gonzalez ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) – After days of uncertainty, Mexican authorities turned over the body of Jose Ramiro Castro, a sailor who died aboard a tourist boat during Hurricane Otis, a Category 5 storm which hammered the Pacific resort city of Acapulco last week. Loved ones were at last able to bury …

Family buries sailor lost in Acapulco storm after painful wait Read More »