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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Thursday told Republicans hoping to investigate President Joe Biden that their requests for information for probes, including on the Afghanistan …

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths will visit Afghanistan in the coming weeks and seek to meet the highest possible officials within the Taliban-led administration …

By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Chinese military plane came within 10 feet (3 metres) of a U.S. air force aircraft in the contested South China Sea last week and …

By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – Residents of Mississippi’s capital are ending the year unable to count on clean running water in their homes after a freezing winter storm brought a …

(Reuters) -Belarus protested to Ukraine’s ambassador on Thursday after saying it had downed a Ukrainian S-300 air defence missile in a field, during one of Russia’s heaviest aerial onslaughts against …

By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as Israel’s prime minister on Thursday in a comeback at the head of a hard-right cabinet that promises to expand …

By Fatos Bytyci RUDARE, Kosovo (Reuters) -Serbs started dismantling barricades in northern Kosovo on Thursday, hours after Kosovo reopened its main border crossing with Serbia, easing a surge in tensions …

By Nate Raymond, Jonathan Stempel and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing AmerisourceBergen Corp, one of the nation’s largest drug distributors, of helping …

Europeans Resort To Desperate Measures To Find Heat Amid Energy Crisis John Hugh DeMastri on December 29, 2022 European countries are looking to recycle the heat generated by data centers …

Biden’s ATF Continues Its Crackdown On ‘Ghost Guns’ Trevor Schakohl on December 28, 2022 The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) specified Tuesday that Gun Control Act (GCA) …

Alexa Schwerha on December 29, 2022 Following the holiday break, Boston Public Schools plans to reinstate a mask mandate to minimize COVID-19 absenteeism. According to NBC Boston, city officials are …

Belarus Claims Its Air Defenses Downed Ukrainian Missile Micaela Burrow on December 29, 2022 Belarus’ defense ministry said it shot down a Ukrainian S-300 missile that landed in Belarussian territory …

Kate Anderson on December 29, 2022 Republican Rep.-elect George Santos of New York is being investigated by federal and local prosecutors after a New York Times investigation showed the future …

Here’s How An Air Force Plan To Scrap A Key Spy Plane Could Hurt The US’ Effort To Stop Drugs Coming Across The Border Micaela Burrow on December 29, 2022 …

MICHAEL BARONE: Are Silicon Valley’s Most Notorious Fraudsters Today’s Robber Barons? Michael Barone on December 29, 2022 Will Silicon Valley go down in history the way of the robber barons? …

Biden Admin To Expand Trump-Era Border Policy To Expel More Illegal Immigrants: REPORT Jennie Taer on December 29, 2022 The Biden administration is considering expanding the Trump-era illegal immigrant expulsion …

By Gabriel Araujo and Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian police said they had arrested at least four people and carried out nationwide raids on Thursday in investigations into an alleged …

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s rightist government has approved measures to fine charities who rescue migrants at sea and impound their ships if they break a new, tougher set of rules …

By Eduardo Baptista and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) – After China scrapped three years of zero-COVID curbs in 30 days, setting off a massive wave of infections, Beijing’s policymakers face …

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The death toll from a gas tanker blast in Johannesburg on Christmas Eve has climbed to 27, the provincial health department said on Thursday. The explosion in …

By Kwang Jira[censored] Kuhakan POIPET, Cambodia (Reuters) -At least 19 people, many of them Thais, were killed and up to 30 were missing after a fire tore through a casino-hotel …

By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Benjamin Netanyahu will need all his experience as Israel’s longest-serving prime minister as he returns at head one of the most right-wing governments in …

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Former Pope Benedict’s condition remains “grave” but stable, the Vatican said on Thursday, adding in a statement that he had rested well during the night and was …

By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Moqtada al-Sadr, the Muslim Shi’ite cleric who dominated Iraqi politics for two decades, seems isolated for now after his move to step back from …