LONDON (Reuters) – Rishi Sunak, one of two candidates seeking to become Britain’s next prime minister, said Friday’s attack on author Salman Rushdie should serve as a wake-up call to the West over Iran, the Sunday Telegraph reported. Indian-born author Rushdie, who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him over his …
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LIMA (Reuters) – The governments of Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador and Bolivia on Saturday backed the continuation of Pedro Castillo’s presidency in Peru, where he is facing several criminal investigations and constant threats of impeachment. “We reiterate our solidarity with the legitimately elected authorities,” the countries said in a joint statement. “We trust that all (Peruvian) …
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By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine and Russia accused each other on Friday of risking catastrophe by shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces in a region expected to become one of the next big front lines of the war. Western countries have called for Moscow to withdraw its troops from the …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan on Friday blamed “political considerations” for the cancellation of WorldPride 2025 Taiwan after it said the organisers had insisted the word “Taiwan” be removed. Taiwan participates in global organisations like the Olympics as “Chinese Taipei”, to avoid political problems with China, which views the democratically governed island as its own territory and …
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By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) -U.S. citizen and civil rights attorney Asim Ghafoor, who was convicted in the United Arab Emirates this week on money laundering charges, has been released from detention there and was headed home to the United States, his lawyer said on Friday. Ghafoor was freed after paying a fine, attorney Faisal …
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By Katharine Houreld and Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) -Without providing any proof, the secretary-general of Kenya’s governing party has said there was election rigging, fuelling public anxiety on Friday as media outlets significantly slowed down their unofficial tallies from Tuesday’s tight vote. Only the electoral commission is authorised to declare a winner, but the tallies …
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By Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s conservative bloc will cut taxes, crack down on immigration and scrap the current system of welfare benefits if it wins next month’s election as expected, the group said in a joint manifesto. The conservative alliance is dominated by two rightist parties, Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy and Matteo …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – In Seoul for meetings with South Korean leaders, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday said he fully supports efforts to completely denuclearize North Korea. “I would like to take this opportunity to express our full support for the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, especially North Korea, and …
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By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) – As the dust settles from China’s military exercises around Taiwan, the message is clear: the military will uphold China’s claim on the island in a challenge to the United States that will keep tension high and ramp up the risk of confrontation. China failed to stop U.S. House …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe, who won international acclaim with a series of more than 100 drawings for the covers of The New Yorker magazine, has died at age 89, news agency AFP reported, quoting his biographer. His cartoons often showed small figures set in large urban landscapes, drawn in delicate lines and …
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