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April 22 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday criticised the former leadership of the International Olympic Committee as “shameful” and “cowardly” and said he hoped for a new approach from those now in charge of the Olympic movement. Putin made the remarks during a Kremlin ceremony honouring Russian boxers, according to Russian news …
MEXICO CITY, April 22 (Reuters) – A Mexican senate committee asked Chihuahua Governor Maria Eugenia Campos and the state’s attorney general Cesar Gustavo Jauregui to provide details on a car crash that killed two U.S. officials and two Mexican officials. The Chihuahua authorities were asked to appear at the constitutional affairs and public safety committees …
KYIV, April 23 (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry made an unannounced visit to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Thursday in a show of support for the country in its fifth year of war with Russia. “It’s good to be back in Ukraine,” Prince Harry said on his arrival at a Kyiv railway station early on …
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish lawmakers passed a bill late Wednesday that includes restricting access to social media platforms for children under 15, state media reported. Its passage comes a week after a 14-year-old boy killed nine students and a teacher at a middle school in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey, in a gun attack. Police are investigating …
HELSINKI, April 23 (Reuters) – Finland will increase defence spending to 3.2% of gross domestic product by 2030, the government said, as it decided to cut other expenditure and drafted its budget for the next four years. Finland’s economy has been ailing since neighbouring Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, prompting Helsinki …
(Corrects headquarters of Crisis Text Line to New York, in paragraph 15) April 22 (Reuters) – Thousands fewer young Americans than expected took their own lives during the first two-and-a-half years following the launch of a national “988” suicide-prevention hotline in the U.S., according to a Harvard-based study published on Wednesday. Researchers also found that …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Anthropic on Wednesday told an appeals court that it can’t manipulate its artificial intelligence tool Claude once it is deployed in classified Pentagon military networks — an assertion aimed at debunking the Trump administration’s attempt to brand the rapidly growing technology company as a supply chain risk. The statement made as part …
WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republicans were poised on Wednesday to advance a $70 billion plan to fund the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agencies for the next three years, while ignoring demands from Democrats for guardrails on immigration enforcement agents and their operations. The funding plan, laid out in a …
The 21-year-old whose legal name is David Burke returns to a Los Angeles court for a hearing Thursday, just three days after he was charged and pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, and seven months after the girl’s dismembered body was found in his Tesla in the Hollywood Hills. In a rare move, he is …
A second round of talks between Israel and Lebanon was set to start Thursday in Washington, while the prospects of Iran-U.S. talks in Pakistan seemed dubious as the Islamic Republic accused the Americans of a “lack of good faith” in negotiations. The standoff between the U.S. and Iran has effectively choked off nearly all exports …