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Support gathers for controversial New York bill on sovereign debt ahead of legislature return
By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) - A number of former heads of state and policy makers have urged New York State lawmakers to push ahead with a bill that would alter the legal landscape governing over $800 billion in sovereign bonds from ...
Zelenskiy thanks Johnson, Schumer for helping get US aid bill passed
(Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed his gratitude on Thursday for the U.S. aid bill for Ukraine during calls with U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Zelenskiy said on X ...
Israeli government seeks another extension on ultra-Orthodox conscription dispute
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli government sought another deferral on Thursday of a looming Supreme Court-enforced deadline for it to come up with a new military conscription plan that would address mainstream anger at ...
West Africa's Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone launch malaria vaccination
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 ...
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Hockey broadcast legend Bob Cole dead at age 90
Bob Cole, an iconic voice of Hockey Night In Canada , has died at age 90. The man who called so many huge games on radio and then television, from the 1972 Canada-Russia series, to Red Army versus the Philadelphia Flyers, to Stanley Cup wins by ...
Egypt in renewed mediation push for Gaza truce, sources say
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.
Explainer-Mass graves in Gaza: what do we know?
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 ...
The rise and fall of movie maker Harvey Weinstein
(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 ...
Chef Jose Andres mourns World Central Kitchen workers killed in Gaza at Washington Cathedral
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 scientists find speedy 90-million-year-old herbivore dinosaur
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 ...