By Ali Sawafta JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian militant in the occupied West Bank on Saturday during a raid in the hometown of a gunman who had carried out a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv, Israeli and Palestinian sources said. Israeli-Palestinian tensions have soared in the run-up to the Muslim …
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By Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday appealed to younger, progressive-leaning voters in his last scheduled interview before Sunday’s first-round presidential vote while his forecast lead over far-right candidate Marine Le Pen further evaporated. “When it comes to correcting social inequalities at their root, we have begun the work, but we …
MERSING, Malaysia (Reuters) – A French woman and British man who disappeared at sea while diving off the coast of Malaysia were found safe on Saturday after drifting for some 100 km (80 miles) for two and a half days after they went missing, police said. The search for another diver who went missing at …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka’s central bank doubled its key interest rates on Friday, raising each by an unprecedented 700 basis points to tame inflation that has soared due to crippling shortages of basic goods driven by a devastating economic crisis. The heavily indebted country has little money left to …
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By Janis Laizans and Elizabeth Piper KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine and its allies blamed Russia for a missile attack that killed at least 52 people at a train station packed with women, children and the elderly fleeing the threat of a Russian offensive in the east. As regional authorities scrambled to continue evacuating the vulnerable, …
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VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (Reuters) – Russian families buried relatives killed in Ukraine with automatic gun salutes and military brass bands on Friday, a day after the Kremlin admitted for the first time that it had lost significant numbers of troops. Russia sent tens of thousands of soldiers into Ukraine on Feb. 24 on what it calls …
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By Steve Nesius and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) -A SpaceX rocket ship blasted off on Friday carrying the first all-private astronaut team ever launched to the International Space Station (ISS), a flight hailed by industry executives and NASA as a milestone in the commercialization of spaceflight. The four-man team selected by Houston-based startup …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain added Russian President Vladimir Putin’s daughters to its sanctions list on Friday, mirroring moves by the United States. An update to the sanctions list announced asset freezes on Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova, Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova, who were named in U.S. sanctions on Wednesday as Putin’s two adult daughters. (Reporting by William James; editing …
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By Dogyun Kim, Daewoung Kim and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – Plunging prices for Russian crab have South Koreans flocking to seafood markets and restaurants but some consumers are questioning whether to boycott the imports on concerns the purchases indirectly support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The dinner-plate sized king crabs from Russia, along with slightly …
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By Natalia Zinets (Reuters) – More than 30 people were killed and over 100 were wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a railway station in east Ukraine on Friday as civilians tried to evacuate to safer parts of the country, the state railway company said. It said two Russian rockets had struck a station …
