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Violence against environmental journalists rises, UNESCO says
By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Journalists who report on environmental issues face increasing violence around the world from both state and private actors, UNESCO said on Thursday, highlighting that 44 of these journalists have ...
New Zealand foreign minister calls China relationship complex
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's foreign minister on Friday described the country's relationship with China as "complex," and called out the hardening rhetoric across the Taiwan Strait, human rights violations in Hong Kong and ...
US Army says Congress doubled funds for 155 artillery
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army said Congress doubled to $6 billion its funding request for buying and building 155 millimeter artillery rounds to replace stocks depleted by shipments to Ukraine and now Israel, an Army official ...
US and Saudi Arabia nearing agreement on security pact, sources say
By Humeyra Pamuk, Alexander Cornwell and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON/DUBAI (Reuters) - The Biden administration and Saudi Arabia are finalizing an agreement for U.S. security guarantees and civilian nuclear assistance, even as an Israel-Saudi ...
Iraqi militant group launches missiles on Tel Aviv targets, source says
(Reuters) - The Islamic resistance in an Iraq militant group launched attacks on targets in Israel with cruise missiles from Iraqi territory, a source in the group said. (Reporting by Timour Azhari; Editing by Chris Reese)
DaVita gains after upbeat quarterly profit prompts annual forecast raise
(Reuters) - DaVita raised its annual profit forecast on Thursday banking on strong demand for its kidney dialysis services, sending its shares up 3.7% in trading after the bell. The healthcare services provider raised the lower end of its 2024 ...
California boat captain gets four years in prison for fire deaths of 34 people
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The captain of a dive boat that caught fire and sank off the California coast in 2019, killing 34 people in one of the state's deadliest maritime disasters, was sentenced on Thursday to four years in prison for his ...
Students erect pro-Palestinian encampments across major Canadian universities
By KyawSoe Oo and Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - Quebec Premier Francois Legault said on Thursday the encampment at Montreal's McGill University should be dismantled as more students erected pro-Palestinian camps across some of Canada's ...
Britain's Cameron, in Kyiv, promises Ukraine aid for 'as long as it takes'
By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary David Cameron promised three billion pounds ($3.74 billion) of annual military aid for Ukraine for "as long as it takes" on Thursday, adding that London had no objection to the weapons ...
Bird flu likely circulated in US cows for four months before diagnosis -paper
By Tom Polansek and Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Bird flu likely circulated in U.S. dairy cows on a limited basis for about four months before federal officials confirmed the disease that has now spread to nine states, according to a new ...