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By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) – The repatriation and reintegration of thousands of families of Islamic State militants languishing in a Kurdish-run detention camp in northeast Syria should be speeded up, the top U.S. general in the Middle East said on Monday. General Michael “Erik” Kurilla, who leads U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), said many of …

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(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukrainian forces had retaken 6,000 square km. (2,400 square miles) of Russian-held territory since the beginning of the month. “Since the beginning of September and up to today, our fighters have liberated more than 6,000 square km of the territory of Ukraine in the south and …

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By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran said on Monday it was ready to continue cooperating with U.N. nuclear watchdog while revealing a drone capable of hitting major cities in Israel, which has threatened to attack Iranian nuclear sites if diplomacy fails to save a 2015 nuclear pact. Speaking after European powers expressed frustration with Tehran’s …

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By Michael Holden and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) – The state funeral for Queen Elizabeth will be held on Monday, Sept. 19, royal officials said on Saturday, as her son Charles was officially proclaimed Britain’s new king in a colourful ceremony laden with pageantry and dating back centuries. The death of the 96-year-monarch has provoked …

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By Max Hunder and Vitalii Hnidyi KYIV/HRAKOVE, Ukraine (Reuters) – Moscow abandoned its main bastion in northeastern Ukraine on Saturday, in a sudden collapse of one of the war’s principal front lines after Ukrainian forces made a rapid advance. The swift fall of Izium in Kharkiv province was Moscow’s worst defeat since its troops were …

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By Jenna Zucker TORONTO (Reuters) – Movies, even those half a century old, influence Taylor Swift’s song writing and music video direction, the star said on Friday. Taking the stage at the Toronto International Film Festival to discuss the inspirations behind the short film she created for her hit song “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version),” …

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By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) – The cost of meeting global targets to fight issues such as hunger, poverty and climate change rose 25% to $176 trillion over the last year, with performance on several measures reversing, a report on Thursday said. The funding shortfall for the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a series of …

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By Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) – Encouraging new data on a malaria vaccine from Oxford University bodes well for global effort to combat the mosquito-borne disease that kills a child every minute, its makers said on Wednesday. After decades of work, the only approved malaria vaccine, Mosquirix, made by British drugmaker GSK, was recently endorsed …

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