By Ammar Awad NEAR KDUMIM SETTLEMENT, West Bank (Reuters) – A Palestinian gunman shot and killed an Israeli soldier near a settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the military said, in an attack the Hamas militant group said it carried out in response to a two-day raid this week in Jenin. The gunman …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran said on Thursday it had a court order to seize a tanker in Gulf waters a day earlier after it collided with an Iranian vessel, one of two tankers the U.S. Navy said it prevented Iran from commandeering. The Richmond Voyager, a Bahamas-flagged oil tanker, had collided with an Iranian vessel and …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -TikTok Inc on Wednesday asked a U.S. judge to block enforcement of a Montana state ban on use of the Chinese-owned app before it takes effect on Jan. 1. TikTok, which is owned by China’s ByteDance and filed suit in May, asked U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy to issue …
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By Lisa Barrington and Jonathan Saul DUBAI (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy said it had intervened to prevent Iran from seizing two commercial tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday, in the latest in a series of attacks on ships in the area since 2019. In a statement, the U.S. Navy said that at …
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By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Tel Aviv’s police commander said on Wednesday he was quitting the force, citing political intervention by members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right cabinet whom he said wanted excessive force used against anti-government protesters. Tel Aviv District Commander Ami Eshed did not name the far-right National Security Minister Itamar …
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By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala presidential candidate Bernardo Arevalo, the surprise second-place finisher in first-round elections, said the government is behind attempts to question the result and wants to remove him from the run-off. The country’s top court called for a ballot review of the June 25 vote after the ruling party …
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By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai’s meetings with North American trade partners Canada and Mexico this week will not delve deeply into major disputes over Mexico’s biotech corn and energy policies nor Canadian dairy access, a senior USTR official said on Wednesday. The annual meeting of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) …
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By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -International election observers will return to Guatemala to monitor a court-ordered review of ballots from the nationwide vote late last month, the Organization of American States (OAS) said on Monday, as tension over the review’s fairness mount. The Washington-based OAS took the unusual step of swiftly returning its observer …
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By Lucy Papachristou (Reuters) – Sofia Gominova wanted to be a lawyer from age 11. Born after the fall of the Soviet Union, she grew up in a Russia blighted by organised crime and watched police dramas on TV, wanting to “fight evil like they did.” Now, at 29, Gominova believes she is doing just …
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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Monday its troops had regained more ground along eastern and southern fronts in what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described as progress in a “difficult” week for Kyiv’s counteroffensive against Russian forces. Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar also noted a surge in fighting around the shattered eastern city of …
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