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Israel planted explosives in 5,000 Hezbollah’s pagers, say sources

By Laila Bassam and Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Reuters) -Israel’s Mossad spy agency planted explosives inside 5,000 pagers imported by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday’s detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters. The operation was an unprecedented Hezbollah security breach that saw thousands of pagers detonate across Lebanon, killing nine people and wounding nearly 3,000 others, including the group’s fighters and Iran’s envoy to Beirut. The Lebanese security source said the […]

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs pleads not guilty to sex trafficking; judge denies bail

By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean “Diddy” Combs used his fame as one of hip-hop’s biggest names to coerce women into demeaning sexual acts as part of a long-running scheme of sex trafficking and racketeering, prosecutors said on Tuesday in bringing three criminal charges against him. Combs, 54, pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court hours after the 14-page indictment was unsealed. U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn Tarnofsky denied bail for Combs, […]

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North Korea fires short-range ballistic missiles for second time in a week

By Hyonhee Shin and Kantaro Komiya SEOUL/TOKYO -North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday toward its east coast, South Korea and Japan said, days after Pyongyang unveiled a uranium enrichment facility and vowed to beef up its nuclear arsenal. The missiles lifted off from Kaechon, north of the capital Pyongyang, at around 6:50 a.m. (2150 GMT Tuesday) in a northeast direction and flew about 400 km (249 miles), South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of […]

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First conviction under Hong Kong’s new national security law for wearing “seditious” T-shirt

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Hong Kong man on Monday pleaded guilty to sedition for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan, becoming the first person convicted under the city’s new national security law passed in March. Chu Kai-pong, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of “doing with a seditious intention an act”. Under the new security law, the maximum sentence for the offence has been expanded from two years to seven […]

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Putin orders Russian army to become second largest after China’s at 1.5 million-strong

By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the regular size of the Russian army to be increased by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million active servicemen in a move that would make it the second largest in the world after China’s. In a decree published on the Kremlin’s website, Putin ordered the overall size of the armed forces to be increased to 2.38 million people, of which he said 1.5 million should be […]

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Central Europe braces for further flooding ‘apocalypse’ as death toll rises

By David W Cerny, Radovan Stoklasa and Janis Laizans JESENIK/LITOVEL, Czech Republic (Reuters) – Residents of several areas of Poland and the Czech Republic rushed to evacuate on Monday as others in central Europe began cleaning up after the worst flooding in over two decades left a trail of destruction and a rising number of deaths. Border areas between the Czech Republic and Poland were hit hard over the weekend as heavy rain that has […]

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Ex-BBC presenter Huw Edwards given suspended sentence for indecent child images

LONDON (Reuters) -Former British TV presenter Huw Edwards, the long-time face of the BBC’s flagship news programme, was given a suspended sentence at a London court on Monday after admitting making indecent images of children. Monday’s sentencing sealed a fall from grace for Edwards, a household name in Britain for around two decades who as the BBC’s leading news anchor announced the death of Queen Elizabeth to the nation in 2022. Edwards, 63, pleaded guilty […]

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Suspect in Trump assassination attempt may have lain in wait for 12 hours

  By Gram Slattery and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A man suspected of hiding for nearly 12 hours in an apparent attempt to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course was charged with two gun-related crimes on Monday, a day after authorities say he was spotted in the bushes with a rifle as the former U.S. president played nearby. The suspect never had the Republican presidential candidate for the Nov. 5 election in […]

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Meta bans RT and other Russian state media networks

By Katie Paul NEW YORK (Reuters) -Facebook owner Meta said on Monday it was banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks from its platforms, claiming the outlets had used deceptive tactics to carry out covert influence operations online. “After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity,” the social media […]

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Myanmar’s flooding death toll rises to 113, state media reports

(Reuters) – Myanmar’s death toll from floods rose to at least 113 as of Saturday evening, the country’s military government said on Sunday, following heavy rains brought on by Typhoon Yagi that has caused havoc across parts of Southeast Asia. At least 320,000 people have been displaced and 64 were still missing, government spokesman Zaw Min Tun said, according to a late-night bulletin on state-run MRTV. “The government is conducting a rescue and rehabilitation mission,” […]

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Ukraine would have military reason for striking deeper into Russia – NATO committee chief

PRAGUE (Reuters) – Ukraine would have a good military reason to strike deeper into Russia using Western weapons, a senior NATO military official said on Saturday. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday as Ukraine’s allies discuss whether to give a go-ahead for Kyiv to use long-range missiles against targets in Russia. President Vladimir Putin has said the West would be directly fighting Russia if it […]

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Shanghai braces for direct hit from Typhoon Bebinca

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Shanghai halted transportation links, recalled ships and shut tourism spots including Shanghai Disney Resort on Sunday as it braced for Typhoon Bebinca, in what could be the strongest tropical cyclone to hit the Chinese financial hub since 1949. The Category 1 typhoon, packing maximum sustained wind speeds near its centre of around 144 kilometres per hour (89 miles per hour), was about 500 kilometres southeast of Shanghai as of 1:00 p.m. (0500 […]

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