By Gram Slattery SIOUX CENTER, Iowa (Reuters) -Donald Trump used his first visit to Iowa this year to attack Republican competitor Nikki Haley and to hit back against Democratic President Joe Biden, who denounced him as a threat to American democracy earlier on Friday. Speaking to a crowd of several hundred supporters just 10 days …
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KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – The Kharkiv region prosecutor’s office provided further evidence on Saturday that Russia attacked Ukraine with missiles supplied by North Korea, showcasing the fragments. A senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Russia hit Ukraine this week with missiles supplied by North Korea for the first time during its …
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By Kyung Hoon Kim and Kiyoshi Takenaka WAJIMA, Japan (Reuters) -The confirmed death toll from the New Year’s Day earthquake in Japan reached 110 on Saturday as a search for survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings entered a sixth day. The magnitude 7.6 quake struck the west coast, destroying infrastructure and snapping power links …
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By Ruma Paul and Sudipto Ganguly DHAKA (Reuters) -Polling booths were set ablaze in Bangladesh on the eve of Sunday’s general elections, while four people, including two children, were killed in a train fire that the government described as arson targeting democratic values. Friday’s fire broke out at about 9 p.m. (1500 GMT), injuring eight …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Major rivers across Britain were flooded on Friday after heavy rain, with the government issuing more than 300 flood warnings, travel operators announcing serious disruption and around 1,000 homes suffering damage so far. A succession of storms in recent weeks meant prolonged rainfall that started on Thursday fell on saturated ground and …
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By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s record low temperatures this week inspired a tourist on a trip to the Arctic to try a trick that had long intrigued him: throwing boiling water in the air when it’s extremely cold outside and seeing it turn into an instant cloud of icy dust. This is not …
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By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland VALLEY FORGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Joe Biden on Friday accused Republican Donald Trump, his likely 2024 election opponent, of instigating the Jan. 6 attacks and plotting revenge on those seeking to punish him, as the president put the future of U.S. democracy at the center of his bid for …
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VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden had scathing criticism of his likely 2024 election opponent Donald Trump and the Republicans who follow him in a speech on Friday commemorating the third anniversary of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol by Trump loyalists. Here are key excerpts: U.S. DEMOCRACY’S FUTURE …
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By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a judicial decision barring the former president from Colorado’s Republican primary ballot, taking up a politically explosive case with major implications for the 2024 presidential election. At issue is the Colorado Supreme Court’s Dec. …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Arafat Barbakh CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Europe’s senior diplomat Josep Borrell began a new diplomatic push on Friday to stop spillover from the Gaza war into Israeli-occupied West Bank, Lebanon and Red Sea shipping lanes. Their Middle East visits came three months since Hamas militants from …
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