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Chadian interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby speaks during the launch of his presidential campaign ahead of the May elections in N'Djamena, Chad April 14, 2024.

Some US troops set to depart Chad, at least temporarily

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is planning to temporarily withdraw some of its troops from Chad, U.S. officials said on Thursday, a move that comes just days after Washington was forced to agree to remove its troops from neighboring ...

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'Uncommitted' organizers will join campus protesters in Michigan over Gaza

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A coalition of University of Michigan students rally at an encampment in the Diag to pressure the university to divest its endowment from companies that support Israel or could profit from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, on the University of Michigan college campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., April 22, 2024.

China must stop aiding Russia if it seeks good relations with West, NATO says

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a press conference, at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, April 4, 2024.

Support gathers for controversial New York bill on sovereign debt ahead of legislature return

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Zelenskiy thanks Johnson, Schumer for helping get US aid bill passed

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Israeli government seeks another extension on ultra-Orthodox conscription dispute

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A nurse prepares to administer a malaria vaccine to an infant at the health center in Datcheka, Cameroon January 22, 2024.

West Africa's Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone launch malaria vaccination

Pulcherie Adjoha |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

By Pulcherie Adjoha COTONOU (Reuters) - Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone launched large-scale malaria vaccine programmes on Thursday under an Africa-focused initiative that hopes to save tens of thousands of children's lives per year across the ...

A Palestinian girl walks past the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 25, 2024.

Egypt in renewed mediation push for Gaza truce, sources say

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has asked for a follow-up meeting with Israel in renewed efforts to mediate a deal for a ceasefire and the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip, two Egyptian security sources said on Thursday. Egyptian, Israeli and U.S.

Palestinians cover a body, which was buried in a mass grave, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in northern Gaza Strip, April 15, 2024.

Explainer-Mass graves in Gaza: what do we know?

Anthony Deutsch, Stephanie van den Berg |Updated 1 hour ago |5 min read

By Anthony Deutsch and Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The discovery of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals, said by Palestinian authorities to contain hundreds of bodies, have triggered calls by the U.N. rights chief and others for ...

Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, California, USA, 04 October 2022. Harvey Weinstein was extradited from New York to Los Angeles to face sex-related charges. Etienne Laurent/Pool via

The rise and fall of movie maker Harvey Weinstein

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |3 min read

(Reuters) - Harvey Weinstein, the former Hollywood producer who transformed the independent film world with Oscar-winning movies such as "Shakespeare in Love" and "The English Patient," was convicted of sex crimes in two states, but his New York ...

World Central Kitchen (WCK) founder Chef Jose Andres answers one dead child is too many when asked what he would say to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while participating remotely in an online Reuters interview from Eastern Shore, Maryland, U.S., in this video grab taken on April 3, 2024.

Chef Jose Andres mourns World Central Kitchen workers killed in Gaza at Washington Cathedral

Jeff Mason |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Celebrity Chef Jose Andres called seven aid workers killed by Israeli forces in Gaza "the best of humanity" on Thursday during a memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral that was attended by ...

Argentine paleontologists Rodrigo Alvarez and Sebastian Rozadilla look at fossils of the 'Chakisaurus nekul', a newly-discovered herbivorous dinosaur that lived about 90 million years ago in the Patagonia region, at the Buenos Aires' Natural Science museum, in Buenos Aires, Argentina April 24, 2024.

Argentine scientists find speedy 90-million-year-old herbivore dinosaur

Miguel Lo Bianco |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

By Miguel Lo Bianco BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Paleontologists from Argentina announced the discovery of a new medium-sized herbivorous dinosaur, which was a fast runner and lived about 90 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period in present ...

A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland August 14, 2012.

US FDA sends warning to Cardinal Health for marketing unapproved devices

Reuters |Updated 5 minutes ago |1 min read

(Reuters) -The U.S. health regulator has sent a warning letter to Cardinal Health after an inspection of its facility in Illinois showed that the company was marketing unapproved devices. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during its ...

Kim Kardashian attends the Breakthrough Prize awards in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 13, 2024.

US VP Harris hosts Kim Kardashian to discuss criminal justice reform

Nandita Bose |Updated 2 hours ago |2 min read

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will host reality-television star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian at the White House on Thursday to discuss criminal justice reform, after President Joe Biden granted ...

Reactions to court overturning Harvey Weinstein NY rape conviction

Reuters |Updated 2 hours ago |2 min read

(Reuters) - Reactions were widespread to the overturning of Harvey Weinstein's 2020 New York conviction for sexual assault and rape on Thursday: DOUGLAS WIGDOR, LAWYER FOR EIGHT WEINSTEIN ACCUSERS: “Today’s decision is a major step back in ...

The United Nations building is pictured in New York City, U.S., February 23, 2023.

UN chief calls for swift deployment of security mission to Haiti

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(shortens headline) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls on the new authorities in Haiti "to expedite the full implementation of the transitional governance arrangements" and for the swift deployment of an ...