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WorldKenya flood death toll hits 10 as dam overflow risk raises alarm
NAIROBI, May 2 (Reuters) - At least 10 people have died across Kenya after heavy rains triggered flooding and landslides in several regions, police said, as authorities warned rising river levels
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US, Philippines deploy anti-ship missile system in Batanes near Taiwan for war games
By Adrian Portugal BATANES, Philippines, May 2 (Reuters) - Philippine and U.S. forces on Saturday showcased the NMESIS anti-ship missile system in Batanes province, near Taiwan, during annual war
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Governor of Mexico’s Sinaloa state indicted in US drugs investigation says he will step down
The governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa said on Friday he will temporarily step down from his post, days after he was indicted in the US on drugs trafficking charges,
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Humpback whale stranded in Germany released into North Sea: media
A humpback whale that had been struggling to survive after beaching near the German coast was Saturday released into the North Sea off Denmark after being transported in a barge, a member of a rescue mission said.The whale left the barge it had been towed on from Wismar Bay on the Baltic coast at around 8:45 am (0645 GMT), said Karin Walter-Mommert from the rescue initiative.
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UK’s Starmer eyes banning some pro-Palestine protests
PM Keir Starmer says the phrase ‘globalise the Intifada’ should be ‘completely off limits’.
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Japan PM meets top Vietnam leaders in Hanoi
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met top Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi on Saturday, inking multiple agreements ahead of a speech where she is expected to lay out her vision for a "free and open" Asia-Pacific region.The two countries agreed to work more closely on "economic security including energy, important mineral resources, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and space", Takaichi said after meeting Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung.
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Nepal celebrates return of stolen 13th-century Buddha statue from New York
The Himalayan nation restores centuries-old statue, stolen in the 1980s, to its original temple in capital Kathmandu.
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Two killed in Russian attack on bus in Kherson
KYIV, May 2 () - A Russian drone attack on a bus in Ukraine's southern city of Kherson killed two people and injured seven more early on Saturday, officials said. Most of the casualties were public utilities workers, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin added on Telegram.
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Iran executes two for spying for Israel
May 2 (Reuters) - Iran executed two men on Saturday accused of spying for Israel, including one accused of gathering intelligence near the Natanz nuclear site in central Isfahan province, Iranian
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China urges reversal of UNIFIL departure from Lebanon as conflict escalates
The UNIFIL mission has faced a growing number of casualties as Israel and Hezbollah continue to fight.
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Reclusive Turkmenistan shows signs of cautiously opening up
By Felix Light ASHGABAT, May 2 (Reuters) - From a brightly lit, open-plan office Azat Seyitmuhammedov runs an e-commerce startup, Wabrum, that he founded almost a decade ago.
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In the PR battle for AI data centers, tech giants got a blue-collar ally
Building trades unions — long fashioned as the voice of the American worker — are now intertwined with the richest companies in the world as they create America's artificial intelligence economy. Unionized workers are employed on a huge number of massive data center projects and scrambling to recruit new apprentices to feed the explosive demand. Unions have aggressively answered complaints about data centers in ways that executives at tech giants and the development firms rarely do, unafraid to bluntly confront concerns about energy and water shortages, rising electric and water bills, or noise and quality-of-life objections.
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US sanctions are 'collective punishment,' says Cuba during May 1 marches
Cuba said Friday that US President Donald Trump's fresh sanctions on the island amounted to "collective punishment," as an enormous May 1 procession outside the American embassy in Havana vowed to "defend the homeland."Friday's fresh measures took effect during May 1 celebrations, which saw huge crowds in Havana march to the US embassy under the slogan "Defend the Homeland."
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Peru probes trafficking of citizens to fight for Russia in Ukraine
Peru’s public prosecutor says many of their citizens are victims of deception, lured by the promise of jobs.
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King Charles gets warm welcome in Bermuda after whirlwind US visit
King Charles III spent a day in the British island territory of Bermuda on Friday after a high-stakes visit to the United States where he sought to heal strained ties between Washington and London.Charles was visiting the archipelago without Queen Camilla, who had accompanied him to the United States.
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K-pop’s BTS comeback tour rallies South Korea’s global ‘soft power’ drive
K-pop sensations BTS ignited a wave of interest in South Korean culture that now extends from food to cosmetics.
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Separatists in Canada oil province seek independence referendum
Separatists in Alberta are preparing to submit a petition on Monday that they say has enough signatures to force a referendum on independence for the oil-rich Canadian province.After launching a petition in January, Stay Free Alberta, the group coordinating the independence push, had until the beginning of May to collect 178,000 signatures to force a referendum.
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War in the Middle East: latest developments
The latest developments in the Middle East war: - US approves arms sales to Qatar, Israel - The United States said it had approved a $4 billion sale of Patriot missiles to Gulf ally Qatar, as well as the sale of precision weapons systems to Israel for nearly $1 billion.Both sales were deemed to support US "foreign policy and national security" objectives, the State Department said in a series of notices to Congress, amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
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US Justice Department can use military lawyers to prosecute civilians, judge rules
By Nate Raymond May 1 (Reuters) - The Trump administration's assignment of military lawyers to help the Department of Justice prosecute civilians for offenses unrelated to the military does not
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Bus plunges into river after trainee driver crash, massive rescue response: reports
All four people on board were rescued after a trainee driver sent a bus careening into the River Seine near Paris Thursday, officials said.
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Lebanon says 13 killed in Israeli strikes in south
Lebanon's health ministry said 13 people were killed on Friday in Israeli strikes in the south, including in a town where Israel's army had issued an evacuation order despite a ceasefire.Lebanon's health ministry on Friday raised the toll from Israeli strikes since March 2 to more than 2,600 dead, including 103 emergency workers and paramedics.
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US bypasses congressional review for military sales of $8.6 billion to Middle East allies
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China was the birthplace of recreational drones. Now you can’t buy one in Beijing
In the flagship Beijing store of the world’s biggest drone maker, display racks designed to showcase DJI’s famous flying products sit awkwardly empty.
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Rebels take key military base in Mali's north
Mali's army and its Russian mercenary allies surrendered a strategic northern military stronghold to armed rebels on Friday, as Tuareg separatists and jihadists wage a unified front to bring down the country's junta.Earlier this week a spokesman for the Tuareg rebels not only vowed that they will conquer the country's north but predicted that the junta, which seized power in coups in 2020 and 2021, will "fall".
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US withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany, US officials say
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) - The United States is withdrawing 5,000 troops from NATO ally Germany, the Pentagon announced on Friday, as a rift over the Iran war widens
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US FDA approves Pfizer, Arvinas' breast cancer drug
By Padmanabhan Ananthan May 1 (Reuters) - The U.S.
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Republican governors pursue new congressional maps after US Supreme Court ruling
By Joseph Ax May 1 (Reuters) - The Republican governors of Alabama and South Carolina indicated on Friday they will try to push through congressional maps more favorable to their party ahead of
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Venezuelan protesters call government wage hike a joke
About 1,500 people demonstrated in Venezuela on Friday, denouncing a 26 percent income increase announced by the government as grossly insufficient in a crisis-hit economy.Announcing the new minimum wage package on Thursday, she said it was "the most significant increase in recent years" but acknowledged that it was still "not enough."
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At least 12 killed in latest Israeli attacks on Lebanon
Israel’s strikes continue, with more than 2,600 killed since March 2, despite an ongoing ceasefire.
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Gridlock as pandemic treaty talks fail to finish
The World Health Organization said Friday that divided member states want up to a year of further negotiations on the missing piece of an international agreement on handling future pandemics.- World 'largely unprepared' - In May 2025, WHO members adopted a landmark agreement on tackling future health crises, after more than three years of negotiations sparked by the shock of Covid-19.
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Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi hospitalised as health deteriorates
Mohammadi has lost consciousness twice and suffered a severe cardiac crisis, her foundation has announced.
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US court blocks mail-order access to abortion drugs, for now
By Daniel Wiessner May 1 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a federal rule allowing the abortion drug mifepristone to be dispensed through the mail, significantly
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How major US stock indexes fared Friday 5/1/2026
The U.S. stock market is rising toward more records after Apple, Estee Lauder and others joined the list of companies delivering fatter profits for the start of the year than analysts expected. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 40 points, and the Nasdaq composite added 1% to its own record. The Nasdaq composite rose 222.13 points, or 0.9%, to 25,114.44.
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Rebel checkpoints reported around Mali’s capital, northern town seized
JNIM and Tuareg separatists continue their attacks against Mali’s military government.
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New York archdiocese to pay $800 million to settle sex abuse cases
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - The Catholic Archdiocese of New York has agreed to pay $800 million in a settlement with 1,300 sex abuse survivors, one of the largest payouts in a wave
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Thousands march under May Day ‘workers over billionaires’ theme
More than 3,000 events were planned across the country, with teachers and labor unions leading marches nationwide.
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WHO delays pandemic treaty amid pathogen-sharing dispute
May 1 (Reuters) - World Health Organization member states said on Friday they had extended talks on pathogen-sharing rules, casting doubt on when a pandemic treaty adopted last year can come into
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Chinese hackers vulnerable to US arrest if they travel, FBI official says
By AJ Vicens April 30 (Reuters) - The Chinese government’s hiring of hackers has “gotten out of control” and provides cyber criminals with “a form of plausible deniability,” a senior FBI official said
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Colombia-Ecuador trade collapsing as tariff war intensifies, business groups say
By Tito Correa RUMICHACA BRIDGE, Colombia/Ecuador, May 1 (Reuters) - The flow of goods between Colombia and Ecuador is drying up, industry groups on the South American countries' border say, as high
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China says UN should revisit Lebanon peacekeeping mission decision
May 1 (Reuters) - China's ambassador to the United Nations said on Friday that there was a need to revisit the U.N.
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Middle East war's impact on shipping hitting refugee aid: UNCHR
The UN refugee agency on Friday said the Middle East war had sent its freight rates soaring, hitting the delivery of aid to refugees in the wider region and Africa."The Middle East crisis has generated far-reaching ripple effects well beyond the region, with growing consequences for global humanitarian supply chains and the delivery of aid," spokeswoman Carlotta Wolf told a press conference in Geneva.
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Gaza aid flotilla activists taken to Crete after Israeli interception
ATHERINOLAKKOS, Greece, May 1 (Reuters) - More than 100 pro-Palestinian activists aboard boats carrying aid bound for Gaza were taken to the Greek island of Crete on Friday after Israeli forces seized
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Legal team plans to meet with detained Myanmar ex-leader Suu Kyi this weekend
May 1 (Reuters) - The legal team of Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi plans to meet the detained former leader this weekend after she was transferred to house arrest in the capital by the military-backed
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Shiite cleric killed in grenade attack near Syrian capital of Damascus
Assailants killed a Shiite cleric Friday near the Syrian capital by hurling a grenade into his car, state media reported. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack that killed Farhan al-Mansour, the main preacher at a Shiite shrine in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab. State news agency SANA and state TV said that security was boosted in the southern suburb of Damascus, adding that security forces have launched an investigation to find the suspects behind the attack.
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Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi hospitalized after a health crisis in prison
Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been urgently transferred from prison to a hospital in northwestern Iran after a “catastrophic deterioration” of her health, her foundation said Friday. The Narges Mohammadi Foundation said the Nobel Prize laureate had two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis. Earlier Friday, Mohammadi had fainted twice in prison in Zanjan in northwestern Iran, according to the foundation.
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Former Brazil President Bolsonaro had shoulder surgery, remains hospitalized
SAO PAULO, May 1 (Reuters) - Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro successfully underwent right shoulder surgery on Friday, according to a note released by his medical team, which added that he
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