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

Rodrigo Campos |Updated 6 minutes ago |3 min read

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 ...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) shake hands before their meeting in Washington, U.S., December 12, 2023. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via

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

Reuters |Updated 25 minutes ago |1 min read

(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 ...

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish person walks, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood, April 21, 2024.

Israeli government seeks another extension on ultra-Orthodox conscription dispute

Dan Williams |Updated 34 minutes ago |2 min read

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 ...

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 35 minutes 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 ...

Retired hockey broadcaster Bob Cole.

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Hockey broadcast legend Bob Cole dead at age 90

Lance Hornby · Postmedia News |Updated 36 minutes ago |1 min read Premium content

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 ...

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

Reuters |Updated 53 minutes ago |1 min read

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 54 minutes 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 55 minutes 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 ...

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