By Andrea Shalal, Steve Holland and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. F-22 fighter jet on Friday shot down an unidentified object flying high over Alaska, U.S. officials said, less than a week after the military brought down a Chinese balloon that had flown across the United States. A Sidewinder missile downed the latest craft, …
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By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) -Russian missiles hit power facilities on Friday across Ukraine, where President Volodymyr Zelenskiy returned from a tour of Western capitals and Ukrainian officials said a long-awaited Russian offensive was underway in the east. Ukraine’s armed forces said in an evening update that Russian forces fired more than 100 missiles throughout …
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By Kemal Aslan, Maya Gebeily and Khalil Ashawi ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria, (Reuters) -Rescue crews saved a 10-day-old baby and his mother trapped in the ruins of a building in Turkey on Friday and dug several people out from other sites as President Tayyip Erdogan said authorities should have reacted faster to this week’s huge earthquake. …
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By Jarrett Renshaw and Hyunjoo Jin (Reuters) -Tesla CEO Elon Musk has often talked about opening his Supercharging network to competitors, but has never actually done so in the United States, where the company dominates the electric vehicle market. Now, the brash CEO may have 7.5 billion reasons to accelerate those plans. The Department of …
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By Dan Williams and Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Two Israelis including a child were killed by a Palestinian driver who rammed his car into a group of people at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Friday, Israeli police said. A volunteer medic with United Hatzalah ambulance service, Ariel Ben-David, told Army Radio: …
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(Reuters) – Global ratings agency Moody’s downgraded Ukraine’s sovereign rating to ‘Ca’ from ‘Caa3’ on Friday, as it expects the war with Russia to create long-lasting challenges for the country. The Moody’s downgrade comes amid a new Russian offensive ahead of the first anniversary of the war that started on Feb. 24, with Russia hitting …
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(Reuters) – Russia’s Justice Ministry on Friday placed Zemfira, one of post-Soviet Russia’s most popular singers, on a list of foreign agents on grounds that she supported Ukraine and criticised Russia’s “special military operation” in that country. Tass news agency quoted a ministry statement as saying that Zemfira, whose full name is Zemfira Ramazanova, “openly …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The official emblem which will be used for the celebrations to accompany the coronation of Britain’s King Charles in May was unveiled on Friday, with the design giving a nod to the monarch’s many years of environmental campaigning. The emblem features flora from all the four nations that make up the United …
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By Amanda Ferguson and Conor Humphries BELFAST (Reuters) – Northern Ireland’s largest unionist party faces a historic dilemma if EU and British negotiators clinch a post-Brexit trade deal: redraw their red lines or risk signing a death warrant for decades of power-sharing with Irish nationalists. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) could take a chance and endorse a …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica and Vodafone on Friday secured unconditional EU antitrust approval for their advertising joint venture to take on Big Tech. “The transaction, as notified, would not significantly reduce competition in French, German, Italian and Spanish markets,” the European Commission said in a statement. Reuters exclusively reported on the imminent …
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