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WorldIsraeli protesters demand hostage deal as cabinet meets
Thousands of demonstrators massed in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, seeking to push the government to end the war in Gaza and strike a deal to return hostages, as the security cabinet convened."I'm here first and foremost to protest, and to call for the government to make a deal and bring all the hostages home and to end the war," said demonstrator Yoav Vider, 29.
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PoliticsNAACP sues Texas over redrawn congressional map, calling it discriminatory
(Reuters) -The NAACP and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on Tuesday sued Texas over its congressional map that was redrawn at the behest of President Donald Trump, arguing it dilutes the power of Black voters and other minorities. The Republican-dominated Texas legislature passed the new map last week with hopes it would give Republicans five more seats in Congress. California's legislature, dominated by Democrats, responded by passing its own new map intended to counter Texas by adding five more seats for Democrats.
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WorldHussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire in Gaza
Masri, 49, was an experienced cameraman whose positive approach in the most dangerous situations made him popular among Gaza's tight-knit community of reporters, journalist colleagues said. That was how he ended his last conversation with Mohamed Salem, a senior visuals journalist for Reuters who had known Masri since 2003 and worked alongside him in Rafah, in the south of Gaza, last year. Salem, who left Gaza later in 2024 but was in daily touch with Masri until Monday morning, said his optimism and smiles made him a pleasure to work with.
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WorldJamaica brings in Canadian drones to fly over disaster zones
(Reuters) -Jamaica will use drones donated by Canada to boost its disaster response services, state information service JIS said on Tuesday, as the Caribbean braces for stronger hurricanes in the coming years fueled by warmer oceans resulting from climate change. U.S. government forecasters predict an "above-normal" 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, with storms fueled by warmer ocean temperatures and whose development could be boosted by softer westerly winds. Despite their small greenhouse gas emissions, small island states are particularly vulnerable to effects of climate change.
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WorldIDF claims hospital strike was aimed at Hamas camera, as hundreds of thousands protest Gaza war in Israel
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed Tuesday that the “double-tap” strike on Nasser Hospital, which killed at least 20 people, was aimed at a camera positioned by Hamas.
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Six Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli drone strikes in Damascus countryside, state-run TV says
Syria and Israel are engaged in U.S.-mediated talks on easing tensions in southern Syria, with Damascus seeking a security deal that could open the door to wider political negotiations. Syria said on Monday that Israel had sent 60 soldiers into its territory near Mount Hermon in a violation of its sovereignty, while the Israeli military said its troops carried out a routine operation in southern Syria but not in Beit Jinn, an area close to the border with Lebanon and near Mount Hermon.
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BusinessChina seeks a silver lining as it tells companies to target older consumers
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) -In the past few months, Wang Shuyun, a 78-year-old retiree in Beijing, splashed out on an 8,000 yuan ($1,115) nutrition course to help her lose weight and lower her blood sugar, and spent 1,200 yuan on Adidas shoes. She is one of some 300 million retirees in China, the core of the country's "silver economy" that is now being aggressively promoted. Beijing flagged "a new age" for the elderly in a 2021 policy guideline, calling for "the vigorous cultivation" of a silver economy, but this year authorities have gone into overdrive.
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WorldHamas challenges Israeli account of Gaza hospital casualties
Earlier, Israel said it had killed six militants in the attack but it was investigating how civilians, including five journalists, were killed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described it as a "tragic mishap." The Hamas government media office said in a statement that one of the six Palestinians who Israel alleged were militants was killed in al-Mawasi some distance from the hospital, and another was killed elsewhere at a different time.
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WorldSix Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli strikes near Damascus: State media
Israel has launched hundreds of strikes across Syria following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime last December.
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WorldBrazilian high court requests increased security for Bolsonaro
Stronger police presence is called for to monitor the former president, who is under house arrest awaiting trial.
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WorldReform UK proposes deporting 600,000 asylum seekers in sweeping new immigration crackdown
Nigel Farage unveiled a plan to deport asylum seekers and scrap international treaties, facing criticism from Labour and charities, as well as others.
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WorldRussian troops inch forward in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region
Russia has captured two villages in Ukraine’s southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukrainian open-source researchers confirmed on Tuesday, as Kremlin troops press an offensive amid a stalling diplomatic effort to end the war.
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WorldBrazil's Bolsonaro placed under 24-hour watch ahead of coup trial verdict
A Brazilian judge on Tuesday declared far right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest while awaiting the verdict in his coup-plotting trial, a "flight risk" and placed him under round-the-clock watch. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is presiding over the trial, asked the police to carry out "full-time surveillance" of former army captain Bolsonaro, according to a court document seen by AFP. Moraes was acting on a request from the Brazilian prosecutor's office.
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WorldNorth Korea media criticises South Korea's Lee as 'hypocrite'
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean state media KCNA criticised on Wednesday South Korean President Lee Jae Myung for his remarks on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula during his visit to the U.S. this week. "The South Korea-U.S. alliance will be upgraded to a global level beyond the Korean Peninsula when there is a path for denuclearization, peace and coexistence on the Korean Peninsula," Lee said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington on Monday.
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World‘Day of Disruption’: Families, supporters of Israeli Gaza captives protest
Israelis demand a ceasefire and captive deal as the military intensifies bombardment across Gaza, killing dozens.
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WorldIsrael pushes further into Gaza City, killing and displacing Palestinians
Palestinian families are choosing between braving Israel’s fierce bombardment at home or being forcibly displaced again.
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WorldVenezuela deploys warships, drones as US destroyers draw near
Venezuela on Tuesday deployed warships and drones to patrol the country's coastline after the United States dispatched three destroyers to the region to pressure strongman President Nicolas Maduro.On Tuesday, a US source told AFP that President Donald Trump was dispatching two more ships to the Caribbean to crack down on drug cartels.
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WorldBrazilian judge sends more police to Bolsonaro's home over flight risk concerns
BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday ordered police to tighten security around Jair Bolsonaro's home, including 24-hour patrols, citing increased flight risk ahead of final arguments in the former president's trial. Moraes put Bolsonaro under house arrest in a gated community in Brasilia earlier this month after finding the politician had failed to comply with restraining orders meant to stop trial interference. Bolsonaro faces charges of plotting a coup to overturn his 2022 electoral defeat, and final arguments in the case will begin early next month.
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WorldOutrage after Israel kills five journalists in ‘double-tap’ attack on Gaza hospital
Israel is facing fierce condemnation after a pair of strikes on a Gaza hospital killed five journalists as well as medical workers and others on Monday.
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US to move FAA headquarters staff, consolidate USDOT IT systems
(Reuters) -The U.S. Transportation Department said on Tuesday it will move Federal Aviation Administration headquarters staff in Washington out of the current building and consolidate agency IT and other systems, according to a memo seen by Reuters. The FAA headquarters staff will be moved into the building housing the U.S. Transportation Department headquarters in Washington. The FAA and USDOT did not immediately comment or answer how many employees would be impacted.
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WorldIsrael pushes back at ‘tailor-made’ UN-backed report claiming Gaza famine
Israel is pushing back on a U.N.-backed report declaring famine in parts of the Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the report an 'outright lie.'
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WorldAt least 34 Colombian soldiers kidnapped after clashes with FARC dissidents
Defence minister says soldiers taken while evacuating area after a military operation that killed 11 rebels.
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WorldRussian software developer gets 15 years in prison for $500 donation to Ukraine defense fund
Moscow court sentences Russian programmer to 15 years in maximum security on treason charges for supporting Ukrainian defense forces with $500 donation.
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WorldDR Congo, M23 rebels resume talks in Qatar after renewed violence in east
Qatar’s foreign ministry said delegations were meeting in Doha to review the implementation of a truce signed in July.
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At least 34 soldiers kidnapped in Colombia after clashes with FARC dissidents
BOGOTA (Reuters) -At least 34 soldiers were kidnapped by armed civilians in a jungle area of southeastern Colombia after clashes that left 11 guerrillas dead, including a commander of a dissident faction of the former FARC rebel group, Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday. The clashes occurred in a rural part of the El Retorno municipality in the southeastern province of Guaviare and involved members of the Central General Staff (EMC), a group of former FARC fighters who rejected a 2016 peace deal with the government.
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PoliticsLula denounces US decision to revoke visa from Brazilian justice minister
The president has denounced Donald Trump’s attacks against Brazilian officials as ‘unacceptable’ amid Bolsonaro trial.
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WorldIsrael says strike that killed journalists targeted a camera used by Hamas
Israel's military says a strike that killed 20 people at a hospital, including 5 journalists, targeted a camera purportedly used by Hamas to observe troops.
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WorldUkrainian men aged 18-22 now allowed to cross the border freely, PM says
Ukrainian men aged 18 to 22 are now allowed to cross the border freely in either direction under martial law, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said. Previous regulations introduced after Russia's February 2022 invasion of its smaller neighbour barred men aged 18-60 from leaving the country. "This applies to all citizens in this age group.
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WorldUkrainians Can’t Reach the Bodies of Their Fallen Loved Ones
Some 134,000 are “missing” in Ukraine’s war. That includes those who have died but whose remains have not been retrieved
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WorldIran warns European powers of consequences for sanctions at nuclear talks
Iran told Germany, France, UK during meeting in Geneva they do not have the right to trigger the ‘snapback mechanism’.
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PoliticsPennsylvania must count undated mail-in ballots, US appeals court rules
(Reuters) -A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that a Pennsylvania law requiring mail-in ballots in the presidential battleground state be thrown out if they arrive in envelopes with the wrong or missing date written on them is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with groups affiliated with the Democratic Party and the American Federation of Teachers in finding that the state law imposed an improper burden on Pennsylvanians' constitutional right to vote. How Pennsylvania counts mail-in ballots has become a focal point of litigation for years in a state that has often been pivotal in determining the outcome of presidential elections, as it was last year.
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WorldIsraelis Protest for Urgent Cease-Fire, Return of Hostages
The protests come as Netanyahu faces mounting global criticism over Israel’s expansion of military operations in Gaza.
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WorldWhat are double-tap strikes that Israel used to hit a hospital?
Israel’s two strikes on Nasser Hospital are part of a pattern that has run the length of the war, monitors say.
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WorldWho were the five journalists killed in Israel’s Gaza hospital attack?
Israel killed five journalists when it attacked Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Monday using a ‘double-tap’ attack.
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WorldA look at Uganda, the east African nation where the US is set to deport Abrego Garcia
Uganda is one of at least four African nations that have agreed to receive immigrants deported from the United States. Now, according to U.S. officials, Uganda is set to receive Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a construction worker who became the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies when he was wrongfully deported in March to a notorious prison in his native El Salvador. Abrego Garcia was detained on Monday and homeland security officials said later he was being processed for transfer to Uganda, a country he has no cultural ties with.
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PoliticsUS SEC to keep Los Angeles and Philadelphia office leases, memo says
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Trump administration will keep the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's current office spaces in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, the SEC said in an email seen by Reuters, reversing an earlier plan to terminate the office leases. In a memo sent to staff dated August 25, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said the General Services Administration, which is generally charged with managing U.S. government office space, had reached a deal with the landlords to keep the SEC in its current offices in those cities. "I appreciate GSA's partnership in ensuring the SEC has appropriate, cost-effective space to meet its mission in these locations and around the country," Atkins said in the email, which was seen by Reuters.
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WorldSeptember 11, embassy bombing victims cannot seize Afghan bank assets, US appeals court rules
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the August 7, 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa cannot seize $3.5 billion of Afghanistan central bank assets to address the Taliban's role in the attacks, a divided federal appeals court ruled on Thursday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) was shielded under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) from having to give up assets blocked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, because it qualified as an agency or instrumentality of Afghanistan.
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WorldIsraeli forces raid exchange office in West Bank's Ramallah
Israeli forces raided the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday, targeting a currency exchange and, according to the Red Crescent, leaving dozens of Palestinians wounded.A military statement said that "forces conducted a targeted raid on a currency exchange business that transfers terror funds to Hamas", the Palestinian militant group whose October 2023 attack on Israel triggered the ongoing war in Gaza.
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WorldIsrael bombs once-bustling Gaza City neighbourhood Zeitoun to rubble
Israel has completely destroyed over 1,000 buildings in the Zeitoun and Sabra neighbourhoods in Gaza City this month.
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WorldUK right-wing populist Nigel Farage pledges to deport asylum seekers. Can he do it?
The figurehead of the populist right in the United Kingdom has pledged to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and withdraw the country from international human rights treaties.
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WorldPhotos show people fleeing flooding in Kashmir after weeks of intense rain in the region
Prolonged monsoon rains this season have badly battered South Asia. Rising waters sent people fleeing from their homes in the Indian-administered Jammu area in Kashmir, which is split between Pakistan and India and claimed by both sides. Floods triggered by seasonal rains have killed more than 800 people in Pakistan since June 26.
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WorldJuvenile involved in Taylor Swift concert plot gets suspended sentence in Germany
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -A Berlin court on Tuesday gave a 16-year old who helped prepare a foiled attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna last year a suspended 1-1/2 year prison sentence under juvenile criminal law. The Berlin court said on Tuesday the defendant had fully confessed and that the sentence, which can be appealed, was in line with the verdict sought by prosecutors. Initially radicalised by militant group Islamic State's online propaganda, the defendant sent the would-be attacker a video with bomb-building instructions and put him in contact with an Islamic State member, the court said.
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WorldChile in final phase of negotiations to reach trade deal with US, Chilean official says
SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chile is in the final phase of negotiations with the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) over tariffs, Chile's undersecretary of international economic affairs Claudia Sanhueza told Reuters on Tuesday. Chile is the world's largest copper producer and copper cathodes are already exempt from U.S. tariffs. Sanhueza said President Donald Trump's administration currently had low tariff rates on other exports from the Andean nation.
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WorldReuters and AP journalists killed in Gaza strike were not 'a target,' an Israeli military spokesperson says
Israeli forces struck Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 20 people including journalists who worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and other outlets. "We can confirm that the Reuters and AP journalists were not a target of the strike," military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told Reuters on Tuesday.
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WorldDozens wounded as Israel raids West Bank city where the Palestinian Authority is headquartered
Israeli forces carried out a rare daytime raid on Tuesday in the heart of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority is headquartered. Dozens of Palestinians were wounded, according to local medics, as people throwing stones scattered after gunfire and tear gas. Israel said it targeted money exchanges linked to Hamas.
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Israel’s military says its strike on Gaza Hospital was aimed at what it claimed was a Hamas surveillance camera
Israel's military says its strike on Gaza Hospital was aimed at what it claimed was a Hamas surveillance camera.
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WorldLebanon to present Hezbollah disarmament plan in coming days: US envoy
Tom Barrack says Beirut will set out plan on Sunday. Hezbollah has rejected it as Israel continues attacks.
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World2 men publicly caned for hugging and kissing in Indonesia
Sharia law in Indonesia's Aceh province allows up to 100 public lashes for morality offenses including gay sex and sex between unmarried people.
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WorldAustralia expels Iranian ambassador after spy agency finds Iran directed antisemitic attacks on its soil
Australia is expelling the Iranian ambassador to Canberra after the country’s intelligence agency found that Iran was behind at least two antisemitic attacks on Australian soil.
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WorldHopes fade for injured climber stuck up an icy mountain for 12 days after breaking her leg
Hopes are fading that an injured climber who has been stuck on a mountain in Kyrgyzstan for 12 days could be saved after a rescue mission, which has already claimed the life of another climber, had to be terminated because of bad weather.
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