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CAIRO,  (Reuters) – At least 29 Palestinians were killed while awaiting aid in two separate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip yesterday, Gaza’s health ministry said.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A powerful gang leader in Haiti has issued a threatening message aimed at political leaders who would participate in a planned transition council, as fires broke out amid a fresh surge of violence in the Caribbean nation’s capital.

BOCA CHICA, Texas, (Reuters) – SpaceX’s Starship rocket, designed to eventually send astronauts to the moon and beyond, completed nearly an entire test flight through space on its third try on Thursday, getting farther than ever before, but disintegrated on its return to Earth.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Steel Corp X.N, which has agreed to be bought by Japan’s Nippon Steel 5401.T

WASHINGTON,  – Two years into office, President Donald Trump authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to launch a clandestine campaign on Chinese social media aimed at turning public opinion in China against its government, according to former U.S.

TEL AVIV,  (Reuters) – Israel will try to “flood” the Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid from a variety of entry points, the main military spokesman said yesterday as international pressure mounted to address the growing problem of hunger in the besieged enclave.

ATHENS, (Reuters) – The European Commission said yesterday it was taking Greece to the EU’s top court for failing to revise its flood risk management plans, a key tool for EU countries to prepare themselves against floods.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin warned the West yesterday Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill yesterday that would give TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S.

(Reuters) – A paralyzed Texas man who lived 70 years inside an iron lung after he survived polio as a child has died, his family said.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin warned the West today Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the U.S.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has spread more aggressively than ever before in wild birds and marine mammals since arriving in South America in 2022, raising the risk of it evolving into a bigger threat to humans, according to interviews with eight scientists.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A deepening rift between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza red lines has set up a potential showdown between the two leaders and raised questions about whether the U.S.

 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden won enough delegates yesterday to seal the Democratic Party’s nomination, with a face-off against former President Donald Trump looming in what would be the first U.S.

SYDNEY/SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Investigators from Chile’s aviation authority are headed to New Zealand to head up the probe into a sudden midair dive by a LATAM Airlines LTM.SN

TOKYO, (Reuters) – Japan’s Space One’s small, solid-fuelled Kairos rocket exploded shortly after launch on its inaugural trip last night  as the firm tried to become the first Japanese company to put a satellite in orbit.

(Reuters) – Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped 61 people from a village in northern Kaduna state, days after nearly 300 students went missing in an attack by an armed gang, residents said yesterday.

PUNTO FIJO/CARACAS/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Iran and Venezuela are trying to patch together an oil alliance that began to fray last year, according to six people familiar with the matter, after the South American country fell behind on oil swaps that had boosted crude exports and helped stem domestic fuel shortages.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Ukraine pounded targets in Russia today with dozens of drones and rockets in an attack that inflicted serious damage on a major oil refinery and sought to pierce the land borders of the world’s biggest nuclear power with armed proxies.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israel was checking yesterday whether it had killed Hamas’s deputy military leader in an airstrike in Gaza, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said, as prospects faded for a ceasefire to coincide with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.