By Ange Kasongo KINSHASA (Reuters) -Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has been re-elected for a second term after getting more than 73% of the vote in a Dec. 20 poll, the country’s election commission CENI said on Sunday. The declaration of the result follows days of opposition complaints about the way the election …
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(Reuters) – U.S. singer, dancer and “American Idol” star Paula Abdul filed a lawsuit accusing British television executive Nigel Lythgoe of sexually assaulting her when they worked together on two popular talent shows, according to court documents. Abdul, who rose to fame as a chart-topping singer in the late 1980s, alleged in a lawsuit filed …
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By Vitalii Hnidyi KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russia pounded the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv with missiles and drones in the hours leading into New Year’s Eve, Ukrainian officials said, hours after Moscow accused Kyiv of carrying out a deadly air assault just across the border on nearby Belgorod. In the first wave of Russia’s attacks, at …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s “reunification” with Taiwan is inevitable, President Xi Jinping said in his New Year’s address on Sunday, striking a stronger tone than he did last year with less than two weeks to go before the Chinese-claimed island elects a new leader. The Jan. 13 presidential and parliamentary elections are happening at a time …
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(Reuters) -Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen have stepped up attacks on vessels in the Red Sea to show their support for Palestinian Islamist group Hamas fighting Israel in Gaza. The attacks, aimed at a route that allows East-West trade, especially of oil, to use the Suez Canal to save the time and expense of circumnavigating …
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By Cynthia Kim, Josh Smith and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea vowed to launch three new spy satellites, build military drones, and boost its nuclear arsenal in 2024 as leader Kim Jong Un said U.S. policy is making war inevitable, state media reported on Sunday. Kim lashed out at Washington in lengthy remarks wrapping …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Fadi Shana, IbraheemAbu Mustafa and Saleh Salem GAZA, RAFA, CAIRO (Reuters) -“My life, my eyes, my soul,” a husband writes on the white shroud wrapped around his wife after the war devastating Gaza took her life. A bereaved son writes “my mother and everything” on the burial cloth covering his mother, another …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Arafat Barbakh and Dan Williams CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel must take full control of the Gaza Strip border corridor with Egypt to ensure a “demilitarisation” of the area, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday, as Israel’s military pushed deeper into central and southern Gaza. Speaking at a press conference, Netanyahu said: …
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(This Dec. 30 story has been corrected to tweak the headline into ‘has sentenced’ from ‘has jailed’) (Reuters) – Russian courts have sentenced more than 200 Ukrainian fighters to prison terms since Moscow started its military operation in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the state RIA news agency published on …
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By Yew Lun Tian and Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -A sweeping purge of Chinese generals has weakened the People’s Liberation Army, exposing deep-rooted corruption that could take more time to fix and slow Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s military modernization drive amid geopolitical tensions, analysts say. China’s top lawmakers senior military officers from the national legislative …
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