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PARIS (Reuters) -French far-right presidential candidate Marin Le Pen rebuffed on Thursday criticism by her rival Emmanuel Macron accusing her of retaining her “authoritarian” and extremist views, despite displaying a softer image in the current campaign. “This (criticism) makes me smile because we have never had a president who showed more signs of extremism than …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Advanced hackers have demonstrated the ability to take control of an array of devices that help run power stations and manufacturing plants, the U.S. government said in an alert issued on Wednesday, sounding the alarm over the potential for cyber spies to harm critical infrastructure. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency …

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DUBAI (Reuters) – The killing of all American leaders would not be enough to avenge the U.S. assassination of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ top commander Qassem Soleimani two years ago, a senior Iranian Guards commander said on Wednesday. The United States and Iran came close to full-blown conflict in 2020 after Soleimani’s killing in a U.S. …

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – A luxury vessel owned by a Russian oligarch sanctioned by the United States, Britain and the European Union has moored in Fiji in the Pacific Ocean, media and a vessel tracking website reported on Wednesday. Fiji’s government did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the presence of the Amadea, owned …

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By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s prime minister offered talks on Wednesday with protesters calling for the government to step down over its handing of an economic crisis as the opposition threatened to bring a no-confidence motion against it in parliament. The island nation of 22 million people is in …

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(Reuters) – Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that 1,026 soldiers of Ukraine’s 36th Marine Brigade, including 162 officers, had surrendered in the besieged port city of Mariupol. “In the town of Mariupol, near the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works, as a result of successful offensives by Russian armed forces and Donetsk People’s Republic militia …

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By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO (Reuters) – On a patch of grass near Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office in the commercial capital Colombo, around two dozen tents have been erected in a small but growing camp that is becoming the focal point of national protests. Thousands of people have taken to the …

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