Category: Top News
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Private US moon lander reaches lunar orbit ahead of touchdown attempt
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -A moon lander built by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines reached lunar orbit on Wednesday, heading for an attempt at the first U.S. touchdown on Earth’s nearest celestial neighbor in more than 50 years, and the first ever by a private spacecraft. The six-legged robot lander, dubbed Odysseus, entered a circular orbit…
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Blinken tells Lula that US disagrees with his Israel remarks
By Simon Lewis BRASILIA (Reuters) -U.S. top diplomat Antony Blinken and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had a “frank exchange” on Wednesday in which the secretary of state made it clear to Brazil’s leader the U.S. did not agree with his recent remarks about Israel’s war in Gaza. Lula is in the middle of…
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Reactions to the death of Russian opposition leader Navalny
(Reuters) – Following are reactions in Russia and abroad to the death of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, reported on Friday by prison authorities in the Yamalo-Nenets region where he had been serving his sentence. RUSSIAN OFFICIALS KREMLIN SPOKESMAN DMITRY PESKOV Peskov said President Vladimir Putin had been told about Navalny’s death. The reaction…
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Putin foe Alexei Navalny dies in jail, West holds Russia responsible
By Guy Faulconbridge and Felix Light MOSCOW (Reuters) -Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable domestic opponent, fell unconscious and died on Friday after a walk at the “Polar Wolf” Arctic penal colony where he was serving a three-decade sentence, authorities said. The death of Navalny, a 47-year-old former lawyer, robs the disparate Russian…
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Putin, in rare US interview, says Russia has no interest in wider war
(This Feb. 8 story has been refiled to add the dropped word ‘to’ in paragraph 2) By David Ljunggren, Ronald Popeski and David Brunnstrom (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview that aired on Thursday that Russia will fight for its interests “to the end” but has no interest in expanding its…
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U.S. eyeing Japanese shipyards for warship overhauls, says U.S. ambassador
YOKOSUKA, Japan (Reuters) – The United States and Japan will look at the viability of using Japanese shipyards to overhaul U.S. navy warships that patrol East Asian waters, the U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said on Friday at the Yokosuka naval base near Tokyo. Doing refits in Japan could help the U.S. keep more…
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Trump is warned he may be ejected from Carroll trial
By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge warned Donald Trump on Wednesday he could be kicked out of writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial if he kept making disparaging comments that the jury could hear. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan’s threat came after a lawyer for Carroll said Trump was…
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Baby saved from Gaza rubble after mother killed in Israeli strike
By Arafat Barbakh GAZA (Reuters) – The rescuers in orange vests shouted as they reached a baby girl still alive in the rubble of an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip’s Rafah city after yet another night of bombardment of the Palestinian enclave. Baby Mariam Abu Akel’s skin was grey with dust and she…