Residents fear for safety as Indonesia's Mount Ruang volcano erupts
TAGULANDANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Antelmus Paulus, 67, is in despair after the eruption on Tuesday of Indonesia's Ruang volcano rendered his home on Tagulandang island uninhabitable and prompted authorities to evacuate more than 12,000 people. Ant...
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Paris' Sciences Po school rejects protesters' demand to review ties with Israel
PARIS (Reuters) - Paris' Sciences Po university has rejected demands by protesters to set up a working group to review its relations with Israeli universities, its interim director Jean Basseres told reporters on Thursday, following a townhall with...
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Awaiting US aid, Ukraine's gunners fire sparingly at advancing Russians
By Dan Peleschuk DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) - The soldiers manning a U.S.-supplied M777 howitzer close to the front in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region have seen the enemy advance in recent weeks, slowly but surely, and wish they could do mo...
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EU official calls Georgia's 'foreign agents' bill unacceptable
TBILISI (Reuters) - A senior European Union official warned the Georgian government on Thursday that its proposed legislation on "foreign agents" was unacceptable and would be an obstacle to the country's hopes of joining the EU if adopted in its c...
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Palestinian Embassy seeks temporary status for Gazans who entered Egypt during war
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) - The Palestinian Embassy in Egypt is seeking temporary residency permits for tens of thousands of people who have arrived from Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas, which it says would e...
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Hungary's media-savvy newcomer aims to disrupt political status quo
By Anita Komuves BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Peter Magyar was taking selfies with supporters in front of a busy Budapest market hall one Saturday morning last month when he asked them to give him a minute. He took out his phone, started a live Facebook vi...
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Taiwan reports second Chinese 'combat patrol' in a week
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's defence ministry on Thursday said that China had carried out a "joint combat readiness patrol" near the island for the second time in a week. Over the past four years, China's military has significantly ramped up its act...
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Japan town blocks view of Mt Fuji at photo spot to stop crowds
By Akiko Okamoto FUJI-KAWAGUCHIKO, Japan (Reuters) - Officials in a Japanese town are erecting a 2.5-meter (8.2 ft) high barrier to block a view of Mount Fuji and obstruct a photo spot that has been attracting so many visitors they have become a nu...
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Guerrilla pseudo-state complicates the search for peace in Colombia
By Luis Jaime Acosta YARI PLAINS, Colombia (Reuters) - A group of children holding red, yellow and blue balloons - the colors of Colombia's flag - run to the playground of a newly-opened school built and paid for by the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) g...
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China travel surges for May holiday but consumers remain wary
(This May 1 story has been refiled to say 'new cities' instead of 'lower-tier cities' in paragraph 13) By Sophie Yu and Alessandro Diviggiano (Reuters) - Travel by rail and car across China surged on Wednesday, the first day of a major public holid...
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Rebuilding bombed Gaza homes may take 80 years, UN says
GENEVA (Reuters) - Rebuilding homes in the Gaza Strip could drag into the next century if the pace follows the trend of previous conflicts, according to a U.N. report released on Thursday. Nearly seven months of Israeli bombardment have caused bill...
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Vietnam parliament approves speaker's resignation, state media says
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's legislature on Thursday approved the resignation of National Assembly chairman Vuong Dinh Hue, state media reported, the latest top official to step down amid an intensifying anti-graft crackdown by the ruling Communist ...
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Israeli war cabinet to meet on hostages, Rafah plan on Thursday
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Top Israeli ministers will convene on Thursday to discuss a proposed Gaza truce to free some hostages held by Hamas, as well as prospects for an army sweep of the southern tip of the enclave packed with displaced Palestinians,...
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Trump hush-money trial judge to weigh more fines for defying gag order
By Jack Queen, Jody Godoy and Andy Sullivan NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York prosecutors on Thursday will ask the judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial to impose more fines on the former U.S. president for violating a gag order tha...
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SNP lawmaker Swinney enters race to become Scotland's new leader
LONDON (Reuters) -Scottish National Party (SNP) lawmaker John Swinney said on Thursday that he would run in the contest to succeed outgoing leader Humza Yousaf as Scotland's first minister. "I intend to stand for election as leader of the Scottish Nati...
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Taliban plan regional energy trade hub with Russian oil in mind
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte Greenfield KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban has agreed with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to build a logistics hub in western Afghanistan aimed at making the war-torn nation a major logistics point for regional expo...
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Soccer star's murder highlights South Africa's crime problem as election nears
By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - In the South African township where Luke Fleurs grew up, some friends joined gangs before they reached high school age, but Fleurs found another path: he was so brilliant at soccer that he rose to be a prof...
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EU offers 1 billion euros in economic, security support to Lebanon
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The European Union has offered Lebanon a financial package of 1 billion euros ($1.07 billion) to support its faltering economy and its security forces, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday during a...
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South Korea raises diplomatic alert levels citing North Korea threats
By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's foreign ministry on Thursday raised the terrorism alert level for five diplomatic offices in the region citing intelligence that North Korea may attempt to harm its officials. The five locations include...
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Analysis-Low turnout, apathy in India election a worry for Modi's campaign
By Manoj Kumar and Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A lower turnout so far in India's long general election has rattled Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign managers, raising into question whether his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies...
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Israeli gov't gets new May 16 deadline in ultra-Orthodox conscription feud
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured another reprieve in a long-running Israeli dispute over exemptions of ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service, with the Supreme Court on Thursday deferring the deadline for a new con...
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Switzerland says Russia not invited 'at this stage' to Ukraine peace talks
ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss government said on Thursday that Russia has not been invited "at this stage" to talks to be held in Switzerland in mid-June aimed at helping bring about peace in the conflict between Moscow and Ukraine. "Switzerland is ...
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Palestinian security force kills Islamic Jihad gunman in rare internal clash
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian security officers killed a gunman in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, a rare intra-Palestinian clash whose circumstances were disputed and which the fighter's faction described as an Israeli-style "ass...
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34,596 Palestinians killed in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct.7, Gaza health ministry says
DUBAI (Reuters) - At least 34,596 Palestinians have been killed and 77,816 injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct.7, the health ministry in the enclave said in a statement on Thursday. (Reporting by Nidal al Mughrabi in Cairo; Ed...
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Sustainable living offers hope for future for Hungarian families
By Krisztina Than and Krisztina Fenyo LADANYBENE, Hungary (Reuters) - Laszlo Kemencei lives as sustainably as possible on his small farm in eastern Hungary. He believes the land is effectively borrowed from his young daughter, so he must do all he ...
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