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Israeli strike kills two Palestinian journalists in Gaza, officials say

By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -An Israeli air strike on a car near Rafah in southern Gaza on Sunday killed two Palestinian journalists who were reporting, according to health officials in Gaza and the journalists’ union there. Hamza Al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya were both freelancers. Al-Dahdouh had done freelance work for Al Jazeera and was …

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Japan minister, in Kyiv bomb shelter, pledges funds to fight drones

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, forced into a bomb shelter by an air alert in Kyiv on Sunday, pledged millions of dollars to NATO to help Ukraine avert Russian drone strikes and announced donations of generators and transformers. “Russia has continued threats and attacks with missiles and drones in …

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Storm may not be wintry enough to end New York City’s snow drought

By Joseph Ax and Brendan O’Brien NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York City’s historic, two-year snow drought may not come to an end this weekend, despite the arrival of a winter storm system that began passing through the most populous U.S. city and across the East Coast on Saturday. The city’s 8.5 million residents have not …

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Fire leaves nearly 7,000 Rohingya homeless in Bangladesh camp

By Sudipto Ganguly and Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – A fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh in the early hours of Sunday, destroying about 800 shelters and rendering thousands homeless, officials said. Fire service officials and Rohingya volunteers brought the blaze under control around three hours after it hit Camp 5 …

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US grounds some Boeing MAX planes for safety checks after cabin emergency

By David Shepardson, Valerie Insinna and Tim Hepher (Reuters) -U.S. regulators on Saturday temporarily grounded 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 jetliners for safety checks following a cabin panel blowout that forced a new Alaska Airlines jet carrying passengers to make an emergency landing. A piece of fuselage tore off the left side of the jet …

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Conservative group says UK budget watchdog mustn’t hold back growth

LONDON (Reuters) – More than 40 pro-low tax lawmakers from Britain’s ruling Conservative Party have accused official forecasters of making errors that influenced policymaking and called on the government to ensure they were not “holding back the country’s recovery”. In the latest attack on the watchdog, the Conservatives urged finance minister Jeremy Hunt to fix …

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Western diplomats seek to prevent Gaza spillover after three months of war

By Ari Rabinovitch, Simon Lewis and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/AMMAN/CAIRO (Reuters) -Top U.S and European diplomats campaigned in the Middle East on Sunday to keep the Gaza war from spreading across the region, but three months into the conflict, more bloodshed underlined the challenge as Israel presses ahead with its operations. U.S. Secretary of State Antony …

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Bangladesh turnout low in election set to keep PM Hasina in power

By Sudipto Ganguly and Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) -Bangladeshis largely stayed away from the polls in a general election on Sunday set to give Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina a fourth straight term, after a vote boycotted by the main opposition party and marred by violence. Rights groups have warned of virtual one-party rule by Hasina’s …

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Spirit Aero made blowout part but Boeing has key role -sources

By Valerie Insinna, Tim Hepher and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Aerospace supplier Spirit AeroSystems manufactured and initially installed the fuselage part on a brand-new Boeing 737 Max 9 jet that suffered a blowout on Friday, but Boeing also has a key role in the usual completion process, sources told Reuters. Because of a complex, …

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Vietnam’s VinFast to set up $500 million EV facilities in India

HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnamese electric vehicle (EV) maker VinFast signed an agreement on Saturday to set up its first manufacturing facilities in India, as the ambitious company seeks to penetrate the world’s third-largest vehicle market. VinFast and the southern state of Tamil Nadu agreed to work toward an investment of up to $2 billion, with …

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