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Venezuela mining reform coming soon, acting president says, as US official hails potential
March 4 (Reuters) - Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez said on Wednesday a reform of the country's main mining law will be submitted in coming days to the country's legislature, after a
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War in the Middle East: latest developments
Here are the latest main events related to the war in the Middle East: - Turkey says missile from Iran destroyed - A ballistic missile launched from Iran and heading towards Turkish airspace via Iraq and Syria was destroyed by NATO air defense systems, Turkish officials said. Turkey, meanwhile, summoned the Iranian ambassador after a missile -- apparently targeting a Cyprus base -- landed in Turkish territory.
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Iran denies Axios report that messages were sent to US
March 4 (Reuters) - An Iranian official said the country had not sent any messages to the United States, in response to an Axios report, Iran's Tasnim news agency said early on Thursday.
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US sinks Iranian warship far from Gulf, NATO downs Iranian missile heading for Turkey
By Parisa Hafezi, Pesha Magid and Tuvan Gumrukcu DUBAI/JERUSALEM/ANKARA, March 4 (Reuters) - The U.S.–Iran war widened sharply on Wednesday after a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka
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WorldIran will target Israeli nuclear site if regime change is sought, Iranian official says
March 4 (Reuters) - Iran will target the Israeli nuclear site of Dimona if Israel and the U.S. seek regime change in the Islamic Republic, semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday, citing
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Ecuador declares Cuban ambassador 'persona non grata'
QUITO, March 4 (Reuters) - Ecuador declared Cuban Ambassador Basilio Gutierrez and his diplomatic staff as "persona non grata," the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, giving them 48 hours to leave
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says at consumer protection trial that he resisted censoring platforms
Jurors in a bellwether trial about the impacts of social media on teenagers and children on Wednesday watched a deposition of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that explores what the architects of Facebook and Instagram knew from internal research about the negative experiences by young users and how the company responded since its early years. Prosecutors are alleging that Meta violated state consumer protection laws in failing to disclose what it knew about the dangers of addiction to social media as well as child sexual exploitation on the company's platforms, while attorneys for Meta say the company discloses risks, makes efforts to weed out harmful content and experiences, and acknowledges that some bad material still gets through its safety net.
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Turkey says missile launched from Iran destroyed by NATO
A ballistic missile launched from Iran and heading towards Turkish airspace via Iraq and Syria was destroyed by NATO air defence systems, Turkish officials said Wednesday.The defence ministry said it had been "engaged and neutralised by NATO air-and-missile defence assets deployed in the eastern Mediterranean".
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Israel orders Lebanese to leave swathe of the south 'immediately'
By Rami Ayyub, Ahmad Al Kerdi and Menna AlaaElDin JERUSALEM, March 4 (Reuters) - Israel warned residents to immediately leave a swathe of south Lebanon on Wednesday, ordering them to move north of the
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Zelenskiy spoke to leaders of Bahrain, Kuwait about Iran conflict
March 4 () - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he discussed the Middle East conflict on Wednesday with the king of Bahrain and the crown prince of Kuwait. Zelenskiy also said that his administration was in daily contact with the U.
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Nepal votes in key post-uprising polls
Nepal votes Thursday for a new parliament, six months after deadly anti-corruption protests toppled the government -- a high-stakes showdown between an entrenched old guard and a powerful youth movement.Youth-led protests under a loose Gen Z banner began as a demonstration against a brief social media ban, but were fed by wider grievances at corruption and a woeful economy.
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Google settles with Epic Games with offer to lower its app store commissions
Google will lower the lucrative fees imposed on its Android app store and offer a way for rival options to gain its stamp of approval, ending a bruising legal battle that led to one of several rulings condemning its tactics as an illegal monopoly. The proposed changes filed Wednesday with a federal court in San Francisco mark the latest twist in a case that began in August 2020 when video game maker Epic Games filed an antitrust case seeking make it easier for alternative payment options to compete against Google's Play Store system, which charges 15% to 30% commissions on a wide variety of in-app transactions. Google's concessions come five months after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the company's attempt to overturn a federal judge's order requiring a far more extensive overhaul of the Play Store following a 2023 trial that culminated in a jury declaring the setup an illegal monopoly.
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Blackout hits most of Cuba amid US oil chokehold
By Annett Rios and Alien Fernandez HAVANA, March 4 (Reuters) - A power outage struck most of Cuba including Havana, the state electric utility said on Wednesday, as the communist-run government
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Landslide kills over 200 people at Congo's Rubaya mine, mines ministry says
KINSHASA, March 4 (Reuters) - More than 200 people died on Tuesday in a landslide triggered by heavy rains at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's mines
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Macron urges Netanyahu to avoid ground offensive in Lebanon
France's President Emmanuel Macron said he urged Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to "refrain from a ground offensive" in Lebanon in their first phone call since last summer."I called on the Israeli prime minister to preserve Lebanon's territorial integrity and to refrain from a ground offensive," Macron said on X, after Israeli ground forces pushed into several border towns and villages in southern Lebanon.
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UK warship to leave for Cyprus next week: officials
A UK warship due to be sent to Cyprus amid the US and Israel's war with Iran will not set sail from Britain until next week, Western officials said Wednesday.The destroyer is being resupplied with ammunition and will sail next week, the officials told reporters in London.
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Iran's supreme leader gone, but opposition still at war with itself
The US and Israel began their war on Iran by killing its most powerful figure and exhorting Iranians to seize the moment for change, but a fractured opposition and unclear American aims leave the future leadership of a post-clerical Iran an open question. The opposition group seeks to portray itself as a leading Iranian force, but it is reviled by many for having fought on Iraq's side against Iran in a war in the 1980s.
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Israeli attacks, threats fuel mass displacement crisis in southern Lebanon
Tens of thousands have fled their homes in Lebanon’s south as Israel issues forced evacuation order for entire area.
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Kurdish dissident groups say they are preparing to join the fight against Iran with US support
Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based in northern Iraq are preparing for a potential cross-border military operation in Iran, and the U.S. has asked Iraqi Kurds to support them, Kurdish officials told The Associated Press. The Kurdish groups are widely seen as the most well-organized segment of the fragmented Iranian opposition and are believed to have thousands of trained fighters. Khalil Nadiri an official with the Kurdistan Freedom Party, or PAK, based in northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region said Wednesday that some of their forces had moved to areas near the Iranian border in Sulaymaniyah province and were on standby.
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Hegseth says U.S. "just getting started" as Iran war spreads
The U.S. is "accelerating, not decelerating" war on Iran, Hegseth says, as strikes intensify in the region and reach 1,000 miles away.
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Airstrike kills Iran-aligned militia commander south of Baghdad – police sources
BAGHDAD, March 4 (Reuters) - A commander from Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed armed factions, was killed in an airstrike on Wednesday, police sources said.
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US woman trapped in Dubai not confident she’ll be home soon
“The first 48 hours here was tough; it was very chaotic. People were sleeping on the floor.”
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Spain denies US claim of military cooperation on Iran as rift deepens
Spain on Wednesday doubled down on its opposition to Washington's use of its bases against Iran, after US President Donald Trump's threats of trade reprisals over the spat deepened a rift between the NATO allies.French President Emmanuel Macron, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and European Council chief Antonio Costa were among the allies rallying around Sanchez on Wednesday.
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White House says Spain has agreed to cooperate but Madrid denies
WASHINGTON, March 4 () - The White House said on Wednesday that Spain has agreed to cooperate with the U. military after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off trade, but Spain denied making such a deal.
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Spain denies White House claim it agreed to cooperate with US military
Spain reiterates its opposition to war on Iran despite Trump’s threat of cutting off trade with the European country.
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US Dems say Iran troop deployment ‘more likely’ ahead of war powers vote
Resolution aims to constrain Trump’s war capabilities, but faces uphill battle with veto likely if passed by Congress.
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US Interior Secretary Burgum meeting with Venezuela acting President Rodriguez
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Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, a contender for Iran’s leadership amid war?
Mojtaba Khamenei emerges as potential successor after death of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in US-Israel attacks.
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US says submarine sank Iranian warship off Sri Lanka
A US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, the Pentagon said, as the effects of the war in the Middle East spread to yet another country.The country's autonomous Kurdistan region has been dragged into the Middle East war with Iranian drones targeting US bases since the Middle East war broke out.
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Russia to free two Hungarian-Ukrainian POWs, Putin says
Russia will free two Ukrainian-Hungarian nationals captured while fighting for Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday, after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban appealed for their release in a phone call.In a meeting with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto in Moscow, Putin said the two soldiers were "forcibly conscripted" by Ukraine and that he personally made the decision to release them.
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Everything we know on the fifth day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran
The latest Middle East conflict continues spiraling days after Israel and the US launched their joint operation on Iran, triggering retaliatory strikes on Israel and neighboring Gulf states and plunging the region into fear and uncertainty.
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Iran says a girls' school was hit by a deadly air strike. Here's what we know.
Iranian officials say more than 170 people were killed in the strike. Neither the U.S. nor Israel has said it was behind the attack, but the Pentagon is investigating.
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Iran postpones Tehran farewell ceremony for Khamenei where large crowds were expected to gather
Iran has delayed a farewell ceremony for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following his assassination, citing crowd size and infrastructure challenges.
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Fewer Israeli strikes but also less aid in Gaza as Iran war rages
In his makeshift tent in Gaza City, displaced Palestinian Jamal Abu Mohsen says the bombs are falling less often these days."Air strikes have become fewer," Abu Mohsen told AFP from his tent in the north of Gaza.
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Surrenders Another Royal Property—Less Than a Month After His Arrest in Jeffrey Epstein Probe
Andrew, 66, has agreed to surrender the lease on another of his royal properties, East Lodge, which he has been renting since 1998.
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Trump’s endgame in Iran: Regime change without US ‘boots on the ground’
Analysts say it would be difficult, if not impossible, to bring down the Iranian system with US-Israeli air power alone.
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Analysis-Iran conflict may divert US weapons from Ukraine
KYIV/WASHINGTON March 4 (Reuters) - With the United States focused on its conflict with Iran, Ukraine could face a critical shortage of U.S. air defence missiles at a time when Russia shows no signs
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Russian LNG tanker sinks in Mediterranean, Moscow blames Ukrainian drones
MOSCOW, March 4 (Reuters) - A Russian tanker carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) sank in the Mediterranean on Wednesday after what Moscow described as an attack by Ukrainian drones launched from
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Hungary foreign minister says Russia will free two ethnic Hungarian prisoners of war
BUDAPEST, March 4 (Reuters) - Two ethnic Hungarian prisoners of war will be freed by Russia, Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday in a statement after meeting with Russian
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Civilian Death Toll in Iran Passes 1,000, Rights Group Says
Pete Hegseth said airstrikes would intensify across Iran, and that U.S. forces were delivering “death and destruction."
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Nearly 66,000 Afghans displaced amid fierce fighting on Pakistan border: UN
UN migration agency warns that escalating violence on Afghanistan-Pakistan border risks further displacement.
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Mexico court orders army to hand in missing documents on students that disappeared
By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY, March 4 (Reuters) - A Mexican court ordered the army to hand over long-awaited documents that could advance the landmark investigation into the 2014 disappearance of 43
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Turkey says NATO defences destroyed Iran missile, risking war expansion
By Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA, March 4 (Reuters) - Turkey said that NATO air defences destroyed an Iranian ballistic missile headed into Turkish airspace on Wednesday, marking the first time the alliance
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74 retired US generals, admirals back Iran strikes, warn Tehran seeks to ‘spill American blood’
Seventy-four retired U.S. generals and admirals publicly endorse joint military operations with Israel targeting Iran's regional threats and capabilities.
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UK MP's husband among three accused of spying for China
British police on Wednesday arrested three men on suspicion of spying for China, including the husband of a lawmaker from Prime Minister Keir Starmer's ruling Labour party.The UK leader has repeatedly defended his visit to China, the first by a British prime minister since 2018, as important to forge closer ties with the world's second largest economy.
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