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BERLIN, April 7 (Reuters) – Young men will continue to be able to travel abroad without prior permission despite Germany’s new military service law, the defence ministry said on Tuesday, adding that it would issue a blanket exemption this week to avoid unnecessary bureaucracy. The law includes a provision requiring men aged 17 to 45 …
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley says it is time to move past her Final Four skirmish with UConn coach Geno Auriemma that became the talk of the tournament. Staley released a statement on South Carolina’s X account on Tuesday in which she expressed her respect for Auriemma and said …
Lawmakers are pressing securities regulators to crack down on prediction markets amid several recent incidents of people using the increasingly popular platforms to bet on events tied to the Iran was and other government actions. In an April 6 letter to Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig, seven House Democrats demanded that the agency …
For years, manufactured home park owners across Arizona would restrict what types of air conditioners or cooling devices people used on their mobile homes because they were noisy or ugly. That was until 2024, when a coalition of groups changed state law to make the practice illegal. Now a new legislative session is in full …
It was the first moonship-to-spaceship radio linkup ever. NASA’s Apollo crews had no off-the-planet company back in the 1960s and 1970s, the last time humanity set sail for deep space. For Christina Koch on Artemis II and Jessica Meir aboard the space station, it marked a joyous space reunion despite being 230,000 miles (370,000 kilometers) …
LONDON, April 7 (Reuters) – Nigel Farage’s Reform UK said on Tuesday it was proposing to deny visas to people from countries seeking amends for transatlantic slavery, a move swiftly condemned by the Caribbean reparations commission as a “legacy of toxic racism”. The anti-immigration and populist party Reform UK, which has only eight national lawmakers …
By David Shepardson and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) – Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said on Tuesday that customs officials could stop processing international travelers at major U.S. airports in “sanctuary cities” that have declined to cooperate with the Trump administration’s hardline immigration crackdown, a move that could severely impact U.S. trade and …
PARIS, April 7 (Reuters) – French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Tuesday that he hoped U.S. President Trump would not go ahead with his latest threats against Iran. “One does not erase a civilisation…This ultimatum is not the first that President Trump has set since the war started,” Barrot told France 2 television. “Obviously …
BEIRUT, April 7 (Reuters) – Bombardment in southern Lebanon on Tuesday forced a convoy of humanitarian aid organized by the Vatican’s embassy for a besieged Christian town to turn back, a priest in the town told Reuters. Thousands of Christians in several southern Lebanese towns have stayed in their homes despite the escalating fighting between …
NEW YORK, April 7 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected UBS’ bid to modify a $1.25 billion settlement from 1999 of Holocaust-related litigation against Swiss banks by shielding it from claims based on new revelations about Nazi-linked accounts. U.S. District Judge Edward Korman in Brooklyn, New York, said UBS was seeking an advisory …