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Israeli soldiers operate next to the UNRWA headquarters, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the Gaza Strip, February 8, 2024.

U.S. review on IDF unit over rights allegations still ongoing, source says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has received new information from the Israeli authorities about a specific Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) unit that Washington was reportedly going to designate over human rights allegations in the West ...

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Russia attacks Ukraine's rail lines to disrupt supply of U.S. arms, source says

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Israeli assault on Rafah would bring 'disaster' to Middle East, aid group warns

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Jan Egeland, Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) attends an interview with Reuters in Sin El Fil, Lebanon April 26, 2024.

Romanian court sends Andrew Tate's human trafficking case to trial

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Ceasefire monitoring centre in Nagorno-Karabakh shuts as Russian peacekeepers withdraw

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WTO countries to reboot dispute reform negotiations

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Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and his wife Begona Gomez appear on a news channel in a bar, following his decision to suspend public duties after the court launched a preliminary investigation into his wife, in Bilbao, Spain, April 25, 2024.

Supporters of Spain's Sanchez call rallies, leftists abroad urge him to stay

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

MADRID (Reuters) - Supporters of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez prepared on Friday to hold rallies to urge him to stay on after he announced this week he was considering stepping down as a court looks into allegations of business corruption ...

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame pose for the media, ahead of their meeting inside 10 Downing Street in London, Britain April 9, 2024. Alberto Pezzali/Pool via

Let us press on with UK migrant plan, Rwanda tells critics

Philbert Girinema |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

By Philbert Girinema KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame's government said on Friday it would take as many migrants as Britain sends its way and urged "shouting" critics of the deportation plan to now let both nations proceed. ...

Fire at Brazil guesthouse leaves at least 10 dead, 11 injured

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |1 min read

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - At least 10 people died and 11 were injured in the early hours of Friday morning in a major fire at a guesthouse in Brazil's southern city of Porto Alegre, said the Rio Grande do Sul state fire department, which is still ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, April 26, 2024. Mark Schiefelbein/Pool via REUTERS

Blinken says Gaza protests a hallmark of democracy, decries 'silence' on Hamas

Simon Lewis |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

By Simon Lewis BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday protests at U.S. universities over U.S.-ally Israel's war in Gaza are a hallmark of American democracy, but criticized what he called the "silence" about ...

Signage is seen outside of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in White Oak, Maryland, U.S., August 29, 2020.

US FDA says about 1 in 5 commercial milk samples tested positive for bird flu traces

Reuters |Updated 6 minutes ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - About one in five samples of commercial milk in the U.S. tested positive for traces of bird flu in a national survey, with a greater proportion coming from areas with infected herds, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. There ...

A person attends a protest as people call for the immediate release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 attack on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel April 25, 2024.

Egyptian delegation in Israel for talks on Gaza hostages

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Egyptian delegation met Israeli officials on Friday, looking for a way to restart talks to end the war in Gaza and return the remaining Israeli hostages, an official briefed on the meetings said. The official, who spoke ...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a news conference, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine on August 23, 2022.REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo

Ukraine's Zelenskiy calls for air defense systems as allies meet

Reuters |Updated 4 minutes ago |1 min read

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday called for additional air defense systems to be sent to Kyiv to help protect against Russian strikes, adding that a pause in U.S. funding had helped Moscow seize the ...

A general view of the Vietnam National Assembly (Parliament) is seen during the opening ceremony of its 2015 spring session in Hanoi May 20, 2015.

Vietnam parliament chief quits amid deepening political turbulence

Khanh Vu, Phuong Nguyen |Updated 1 hour ago |3 min read

By Khanh Vu and Phuong Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) - The chairman of Vietnam's parliament Vuong Dinh Hue resigned over unspecified "violations and shortcomings", the ruling Communist Party said on Friday, a new sign of political turbulence weeks after ...

An airplane flies past an Apollo Hospital building in New Delhi, India, December 6, 2023.

India's Apollo Hospitals' unit to raise $297 million from PE firm Advent

Reuters |Updated 7 minutes ago |1 min read

BENGALURU (Reuters) - Private equity firm Advent International will invest 24.75 billion rupees (nearly $297 million) in Apollo Hospitals' unit Apollo HealthCo, the hospital chain operator said on Friday. ($1 = 83.3510 Indian rupees) (Reporting ...

Soldiers from the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) patrol on a vehicle, next to an area destroyed by Myanmar's airstrike in Myawaddy, the Thailand-Myanmar border town under the control of a coalition of rebel forces led by the Karen National Union, in Myanmar, April 15, 2024.

Thailand urges bigger ASEAN role in resolving Myanmar conflict

Reuters |Updated 2 hours ago |2 min read

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand called on Friday for the regional bloc ASEAN to take a more proactive role in trying to resolve the crisis in military-ruled Myanmar, after weeks of fighting near its border that halted trade and led to a brief influx ...