Israel strikes eastern Rafah as ceasefire talks end with no deal
CAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza Strip/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Israeli tanks and warplanes bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday, Palestinian residents said, after President Joe Biden said the United States would withhold weapons from Israel if its forces mount a major invasion of the southern Gaza city. A senior Israeli official said t...
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UPDATE: Trump lawyer questions Stormy Daniels' account of sex with Trump
UPDATED 4:20 P.M. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump's lawyer sought to show inconsistencies in porn star Stormy Daniels' various tellings of a 2006 sexual encounter she has said she had with Trump, part of an effort on Thursday to undermine her credibility as a witness in the first criminal trial of a sitting or former ...
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Israeli defense minister tells 'friends and enemies' Israel will achieve war aims
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told Israel's "enemies and friends" on Wednesday that it would do whatever necessary achieve its war aims in Gaza and the north, in an apparent response to U.S. pressure to halt its operation in Rafah. The comments, at a ceremony to commemorate Israel's war ...
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US set to impose tariffs on China EVs and other strategic sectors, Bloomberg reports
(Reuters) -The Biden administration is set to announce new China tariffs next week that target strategic sectors including electric vehicles, batteries and solar equipment, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. The full announcement, scheduled for Tues...
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Australia targets social media with parliamentary probe
By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia announced on Friday that it would hold a parliamentary inquiry to look into the negative impacts of social media platforms, saying they have significant reach and control over what Australians see online, ...
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China's push for greener aluminium hit by erratic rains, power cuts
BEIJING (Reuters) - Erratic rainfall in China's southwest is frustrating a multibillion-dollar push to green an aluminium industry that accounts for almost 60% of global output and, by some estimates, emits more carbon dioxide than Australia. Lured...
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Singapore's OCBC posts record Q1 profit, lifts margin guidance for 2024
By Yantoultra Ngui SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore's second-largest bank Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) posted on Friday a better-than-expected 5% rise in first-quarter profit and forecast its net interest margin at the higher end of a 2.20% to 2.2...
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Dollar nurses losses after another set of soft jobs data
By Vidya Ranganathan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar had a soft tone in early Asian trading on Friday after losing ground overnight to the euro and sterling on the back of U.S. data showing further signs of a cooling labour market and hence h...
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Oil prices up on stronger Chinese data, Middle East conflict
By Katya Golubkova TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Friday, continuing upwards trend on the signs of improving economy in China and as negotiations to halt hostilities in the stand-off between Israel and Hamas yielded no results. Brent futures ...
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US Senate passes sweeping aviation safety, consumer bill
By David Shepardson and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate late on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a broad aviation bill to boost air traffic controller staffing, increase funding to avert runway close-call incidents and speed refunds fo...
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