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Fired Russian minister found dead in his car with gunshot wound

Russia's fired transport minister has been found dead in his car outside Moscow with a gunshot wound and the principal hypothesis is that he took his own life, state investigators said, hours after President Vladimir Putin dismissed him.

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Netanyahu meets Trump as Israel, Hamas discuss ceasefire

U.S. President Donald Trump, hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, said the United States had scheduled talks with Iran and indicated progress on a controversial effort to relocate Palestinians out of Gaza.

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South Korea's balloon crackdown hits anti-North Korea activists

Activist Lee Min-bok’s equipment for sending anti-Kim Jong Un leaflets has sat unused for months, as he and others halted missions fearing a crackdown under pro-engagement leader Lee Jae Myung, ahead of his June election win.

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As Trump meets Netanyahu, protesters rally against Gaza war outside

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the White House to demand an end to the conflict in Gaza as President Donald Trump met with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Ireland to excavate mass grave at Church-run Mother and Baby home

A team of forensic archaeologists and crime scene experts will next week begin excavating and trying to identify the remains of around 800 infants who died at an Irish church-run home for unmarried mothers.

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Argentina's Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo identify 140th 'grandchild'

Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, the human rights organization that has been searching for children kidnapped during Argentina's last military dictatorship (1976-1983) for decades, announced that it had restored the identity of its 140th g...

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Woman's store in eastern Ukraine destroyed for third time

Tamara Pozdnyakova woke up on June 30 in her apartment in Donetsk to a flurry of missed calls. Did she know that the shopping center, home to her clothing store, had been hit by missile strikes, her friends asked.

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Britain, France hope migrant 'taxi boat' plan will slow crossings

France and Britain hope to unveil measures at their summit this week that will reportedly allow French police to intercept 'taxi boats' - a new phenomenon - around 980 feet from shore rather than only if lives are at risk, as is currentl...

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Trump: U.S. trade deals near, but BRICs nations may get extra tariff

The United States is close to finalizing several trade pacts in the coming days and will notify other countries of higher tariff rates by July 9, President Donald Trump said on Sunday, though he later also flagged a new policy, saying BR...

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Facing battlefield setbacks, Ukraine withdraws from mine ban treaty

Oleksiy, a 26-year-old Ukrainian soldier, is six months into a difficult recovery after losing most of his left leg to an anti-personnel mine. Despite his injuries, he says Ukraine is right to withdraw from a treaty banning such weapons.

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Trump criticizes Musk's new 'America Party' as feud grows

President Donald Trump called Elon Musk's plans to form a new political party "ridiculous," launching new barbs at the tech billionaire.

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South Korea court to hold hearing on Yoon's detention warrant

A Seoul court plans to hold a hearing on Wednesday to review a request by special prosecutors to detain former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, a court official said.

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Zelenskyy says latest Trump call the 'most productive' yet

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday (July 5) that his latest conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump this week was the best and "most productive" he has had to date.

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Horror hooks movie-goers, injecting cinemas with fresh energy

Murderous toys, vampires and zombies are killing it in movie theaters, at a time when saviors, sequels and reboots have grown stale among audiences – entertainment industry veterans say.

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Former Arsenal soccer player Partey charged with five counts of rape

Thomas Partey, who formerly played for English Premier League soccer club Arsenal, has been charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, London's Metropolitan Police said on Friday (July 4).

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West Bank town becomes 'big prison' as Israel fences it in

A five-meter-high metal fence slices across the eastern edge of Sinjil, a Palestinian town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. It's a particularly stark example of barriers that have sprung up across the territory, becoming an overwhelmin...

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Russia hits Kyiv with largest drone attack after Trump-Putin call

Russia pummeled Kyiv with the largest drone attack of the war, injuring at least 23 people and damaging buildings across the capital only hours after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with Russia's Vladimir Putin, officials said.

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Trump: Letters telling countries their tariff rate going out Friday

President Donald Trump said Washington will start sending letters to countries on Friday specifying what tariff rates they will face on imports to the United States, a clear shift from earlier pledges to strike scores of individual deals.

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Crimean Tatars fear homeland will be ceded to Russia in peace deal

Leniie Umerova, a member of the Crimean Tatar community indigenous to the Black Sea peninsula that was annexed from Ukraine by Russia in 2014, was imprisoned for nearly two years after crossing into Russia. Now in Kyiv, the 27-year-old f...

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Ukrainian F-16 pilot's death shows perils of air defense, commander says

A Ukrainian senior commander said at the funeral for Maksym Ustymenko that the experienced F-16 fighter pilot's death shows the high-risk tactics Kyiv will increasingly adopt if it is unable to obtain critical new air defenses.

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Mahmoud Khalil adjusts to life after release amid deportation fight

It's been less than two weeks since U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz ordered Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil released on bail. Reuters spoke with Khalil at his Manhattan apartment earlier this week amid his ongoing fight ...

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Viral quake doomsday rumors spook tourists to Japan

Viral rumors of impending disaster stemming from a comic book prediction have taken the sheen off Japan's tourism boom, with some airlines cancelling flights from Hong Kong due to plunging passenger numbers.

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Indonesia suspends search for 30 missing after ferry sinks near Bali

Indonesian rescuers on Thursday (July 3) temporarily halted a search for 30 people still missing after a ferry carrying 65 people sank near the island of Bali with the loss of six lives, the national search and rescue agency said.

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Afghan refugees stuck in Pakistan as Germany halts entry program

Kimia fled Afghanistan in 2024 after being accepted on to a German humanitarian admission program aimed at Afghans considered at risk under the Taliban. A year later, Kimia is stuck in limbo.

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Iran nuclear program degraded by up to two years: Pentagon

The Pentagon said that U.S. strikes 10 days ago had degraded Iran's nuclear program by up to two years, suggesting the U.S. military operation likely achieved its goals despite a far more cautious initial assessment that leaked to the pu...

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Protesters rally at Downing Street against Palestine Action ban

British lawmakers voted to ban pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, after its activists broke into a military base and damaged two planes in protest at what it says is Britain's support for Israel.

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Trump says he will put 20% tariff on Vietnam, cooling tensions

The United States will place a lower-than-promised 20% tariff on many Vietnamese exports, Donald Trump said, cooling tensions with its tenth-biggest trading partner days before the U.S. president could raise levies on most imports.

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More than 350 unburned bodies found at Mexico crematorium

Mexican police have discovered more than 350 corpses piled up, embalmed and abandoned at a private crematorium in Ciudad Juarez, local prosecutors reported on Tuesday (July 1).

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'We hope he's honest this time,' Gazan says of Trump's proposed truce

Word from U.S. President Donald Trump that Israel has agreed to the conditions needed to finalize a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza raised hopes on Wednesday in the enclave, where health officials said at least 20 people had been killed in Isra...

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U.S. slows missile shipments to Ukraine over low stockpiles

U.S. shipments of air defense missiles are slowing amid concerns that U.S. stockpiles are too low, two people familiar with the decision said.

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