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The most advanced U.S. warship and two accompanying destroyers docked at Naval Station Norfolk with about 5,000 sailors waiting to see their families for the first time since June. Besides combat operations and traversing continents, the sailors aboard the carrier faced a noncombat-related fire that left hundreds without places to sleep and forced lengthy repairs …
Two campaign staffers working for a right-wing candidate in Colombia’s upcoming presidential election have been shot and killed, officials said Saturday. Gunmen on motorcycles killed the two men Friday night in the central-west Meta Department, said the candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella. Meta is a stronghold of rebel fighters who rejected a historic 2016 peace …
LONDON, May 16 (Reuters) – Former health minister Wes Streeting said on Saturday that he would challenge British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in any leadership contest held, days after stepping down and urging Starmer to set a timetable for his departure. “We need a proper contest with the best candidates on the field, and I …
ROME (AP) — Jannik Sinner beat Daniil Medvedev 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 when their rain-delayed semifinal resumed on Saturday and set up an Italian Open final against Casper Ruud. Top-ranked Sinner is one victory away from becoming only the second man after Novak Djokovic to win all nine Masters 1000 titles. Djokovic has won each Masters …
Félicien Kabuga, 91, was accused of encouraging and bankrolling the mass killing of Rwanda’s Tutsi minority. His trial began in 2022, nearly three decades after the 100-day massacre that left 800,000 dead. In 2023, the judges declared him unfit to continue standing trial because he had dementia and said they would establish a procedure to …
CANNES, France, May 16 (Reuters) – Austrian director Marie Kreutzer recalled on Saturday it was difficult to make her Cannes Film Festival entry “Gentle Monster,” a family drama about the fallout from an investigation into child sexual abuse images that offers no easy answers. “I could feel that everywhere, when I went somewhere with the …
BUCHAREST, May 16 (Reuters) – An unexploded projectile was discovered on a property in southeastern Romania near the European Union and NATO member’s border with Ukraine on Saturday, its defence ministry said. Romania shares a 650-km (400-mile) land border with Ukraine. Russian drones attacking Ukraine’s ports on the Danube river have repeatedly breached its airspace …
SAO PAULO, May 16 (Reuters) – A second-round runoff in October between Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro would result in a draw, the latest Datafolha poll released on Saturday indicated. • According to the poll, a second-round runoff between Lula and Flavio, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, …
THE HAGUE, May 16 (Reuters) – Lucien Kabuga, a suspect in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, has died in custody, a U.N. court said on Saturday. He was 93. Kabuga was arrested in France in 2020 after more than two decades on the run and extradited to The Hague. He was later ruled unfit to stand …
France’s Pasteur Institute said it has fully sequenced the Andes virus detected in a French passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship and found it matched viruses already known in South America, with no evidence so far of new characteristics that would make it more transmissible or more dangerous. “The analyzed virus corresponds to the …