By Rory Carroll LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the NBA’s all-time leading scorer on Tuesday, setting the new mark with a fadeaway jumpshot late in the third quarter of a home game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. ‘King James’, who entered the game needing 36 points …
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KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Taliban administration will send around $165,000 in aid to Turkey and Syria to help the response to a devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck this week, according to a foreign ministry statement. Afghanistan is in the grips of a severe economic and humanitarian crisis and is itself the location of one …
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By Maggie Fick and Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) – When Ignasi Biosca-Reig heard there were shortages of amoxicillin in Spain, he quickly added shifts at his drug company’s factories to boost production of the popular antibiotic. But a few extra shifts was as far as he could go. Much as he would have liked to …
By Huseyin Hayatsever, Ece Toksabay and Maya Gebeily ANTAKYA/ADANA, Turkey (Reuters) -Rescue workers in quake-devastated Turkey and northern Syria struggled on Tuesday to reach some of the worst-hit areas, held back by destroyed roads, poor weather and a lack of resources and heavy equipment and confronted by angry survivors. Turkish authorities say more than 12,000 …
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By Kanishka Singh and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors charged a Russian citizen who was also a U.S. resident with facilitating a sanctions evasion and money laundering scheme in relation to billionaire Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, in an indictment unsealed in federal court on Tuesday, the Justice Department said. Vladimir Voronchenko, 70, of …
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By Dominique Vidalon and Stephane Mahe PARIS (Reuters) – Public transport, schools and refinery supplies in France were disrupted on Tuesday as trade unions led a third wave of nationwide strikes against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to make the French work longer before retirement. Tuesday’s multi-sector walkouts come a day after pension reform legislation began …
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By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) -Switzerland is close to breaking with centuries of tradition as a neutral state, as a pro-Ukraine shift in the public and political mood puts pressure on the government to end a ban on exports of Swiss weapons to war zones. Buyers of Swiss arms are legally prevented from re-exporting them, …
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By Lisa Richwine and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Pop superstar Beyonce broke the record for most career wins at music’s Grammy awards on Sunday but lost again in the prestigious album of the year category, this time to British singer Harry Styles. Beyonce added four Grammys to her collection, bringing her lifetime total to …
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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – A leading conservation research group found that 40% of animals and 34% of plants in the United States are at risk of extinction, while 41% of ecosystems are facing collapse. Everything from crayfish and cacti to freshwater mussels and iconic American species such as the Venus flytrap are in danger …
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(Reuters) – A day before a U.S. military jet shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon, Colombia’s military confirmed a sighting over its territory of an airborne object similar to a balloon. Colombia’s air force said in a brief statement on Saturday that a possible balloon had been detected in its air defense system on …
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