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By Stephane Mahe and Catarina Demony NANTES (Reuters) – Dieudonne Boutrin is a descendant of people enslaved in the Caribbean. Pierre Guillon de Prince’s ancestors, from Nantes, were ship-owners transporting …

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has detained three more people suspected of involvement in last month’s mass shooting at a concert hall near Moscow, the FSB security service was quoted as saying …

By Anna Voitenko and Sergiy Chalyi CHERNIHIV REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine is working round the clock to build defensive fortifications to stop Russia’s troops advancing any further 26 months …

By Tom Balmforth and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – A Ukrainian uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) that hit Russia’s Tatarstan region this week was likely a modified Aeroprakt A-22 Ukrainian-made light …

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) -Billionaire investor Nelson Peltz lost but he also won. Hours after shareholders voted to keep the octogenarian hedge fund manager off the board at …

By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Ukraine’s partners are not providing enough air defence to protect against Russian missile attacks even though they have more than 100 Patriot systems in …

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia and NATO are now in “direct confrontation”, the Kremlin said as the U.S.-led alliance marked its 75th anniversary on Thursday. NATO’s successive waves of eastern enlargement are …

By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) -Three former Supreme Court justices have joined more than 600 members of the British legal profession in calling for the government to halt arms sales …

By Catarina Demony (Reuters) – Support is building among Africa and Caribbean nations for the creation of an international tribunal on atrocities dating to the transatlantic trade of enslaved people, …

By Ahmed Hagagy Kuwait (Reuters) -Voting began on Thursday in Kuwait’s first election since Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah assumed power late last year determined to push through economic reforms after …

By Amina Niasse NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. layoff announcements rose 7% in March to the highest since January 2023, led by technology and government-sector job eliminations, though cuts announced …

By Robert Harvey MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) – When engineers at Russian oil firm Lukoil discovered a turbine had broken at their largest refinery on January 4, they quickly realised the problem …

(Reuters) -Six months since Hamas gunmen stormed into southern Israel on a killing spree, Israel’s ground campaign to annihilate the Islamist movement has turned much of the Gaza Strip into …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A backup power line supplying the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine has gone down, the Russian-controlled management of the plant said on Thursday. Ukraine’s state-run …

By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Tropical forest loss declined last year, but other indicators show that the world’s woodlands remain under tremendous pressure, according to an analysis released …

The standoff between Israel and Iran could threaten to put U.S. troops in an already chaotic Middle East at heightened risk, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Israel launched …

CNN host Wolf Blitzer got corrected by a guest Wednesday after Blitzer took comments former President Donald Trump made about illegal immigration out of context. Trump called the alleged killer …

A Florida voter told MSNBC host Jose Diaz-Balart that not closing the southern border was “unsafe” for the country in an interview that aired Wednesday. President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign …

The Supreme Court’s approval rating has increased after it ruled that states could not disqualify former President Donald Trump from their 2024 ballots, according to a new poll published by …

The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s New York hush money case denied on Wednesday his bid to delay the case based on presidential immunity. Judge Juan Merchant denied the entirety …

When Joe Biden assumed the presidency in January 2021, economic growth was brisk, unemployment had fallen for seven consecutive months, inflation stood at 1.4 percent, and conservatives were relieved that …

Utah, Idaho and Wyoming all share common borders and something else that matters more. According to data the Census Bureau gathered in 2020, these were three of the four states …

Disney shareholders on Wednesday voted down a bid by hedge fund Trian Partners to put two activist investors on the board to help boost the company’s stock price, according to …

A panelist on CNN’s “Inside Politics” was left stunned on Wednesday when a Wall Street Journal poll showed President Joe Biden with a very narrow lead on a signature issue …