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Israel hands over bodies of 45 Palestinians after Hamas returns the remains of 3 soldiers
Israel handed over the bodies of 45 Palestinians on Monday, the Red Cross said, a day after militants returned the remains of three hostages. Israeli officials identified the three as soldiers who were killed in the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023 that triggered the war in Gaza. The exchange marked another step forward for the tenuous, US-brokered ceasefire intended to end the deadliest and most destructive war ever fought between Israel and Hamas. Since the truce took effect on Oct. 10, Palest
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Prince William plays soccer, volleyball in Rio on climate trip
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) -- Britain's Prince William played soccer with Brazil's Cafu and volleyball on Copacabana Beach as he took in the charms of Rio de Janeiro before attending the COP30 climate summit this week. The future king's first visit to Brazil is centered around his annual Earthshot Prize which awards one million pounds ($1.3 million) to five pioneering projects tackling threats to the environment. Climate change and nature are issues the 43-year-old heir has long championed, an
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Underwater sculpture park brings coral reef art to Miami Beach
MIAMI BEACH, Florida (AP) -- South Florida is seeing a wave of new cars, but they won't add to traffic or lengthen anyone's commute. That's because the cars are made of marine-grade concrete and were installed underwater. Over several days late last month, crews lowered 22 life-sized cars into the ocean, several hundred feet off South Beach. The project was organized by a group that pioneers underwater sculpture parks as a way to create human-made coral reefs. "Concrete Coral," commissioned by t
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Microsoft to invest over $15 billion in UAE
ABU DHABI (Reuters) -- Microsoft plans to bring its total investment in the United Arab Emirates to $15 billion by the end of 2029 and has the Trump administration's approval to export Nvidia chips for its data centers there, a senior executive told Reuters on Monday. The UAE has been spending billions of dollars to become a global artificial intelligence hub, leveraging its close relations with Washington to secure access to US technology, including some of the world's most advanced chips. "The
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Louvre heist was work of petty criminals
PARIS (Reuters) -- The audacious daytime robbery of historical jewels worth $102 million from the Paris Louvre museum last month was executed by petty criminals, rather than professionals from the world of organized crime, the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday. On a Sunday morning two weeks ago, two men parked a movers' lift outside the Louvre, rode up to the second story, smashed a window, cracked open display cases with angle grinders, and then fled on the back of scooters driven by two accompli
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Nigeria says US help against Islamist insurgents must respect its sovereignty
ABUJA, Nigeria (Reuters) -- Nigeria said on Sunday it would welcome US help in fighting Islamist insurgents as long as its territorial integrity is respected, responding to threats of military action by US President Donald Trump over what he said was the ill treatment of Christians in the West African country. Trump said on Saturday that he had asked the US Defense Department to prepare for possible "fast" military action in Nigeria if Africa's most populous country fails to crack down on the ki
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Trump's testing plans for US nuclear weapons won't include explosions, energy secretary says
PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — New tests of the US nuclear weapons system ordered up by US President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday. It was the first clarity from the Trump administration since the president took to social media last week to say he had “instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.” “I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system tests,” Wright said in an interview on
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Trump says China's Xi has assured him that he won't take action on Taiwan during Republican's term
PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — US President Donald Trump says that Chinese President Xi Jinping has given him assurances that Beijing would take no action toward its long-stated goal of unifying Taiwan with mainland China while the Republican leader is in office. Trump said that the long-contentious issue of Taiwan did not come up in his talks with Xi on Thursday in South Korea that largely focused on US-China trade tensions. But the US leader expressed certainty that China would not take action on
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Tariffs are Trump's favorite foreign policy tool
WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump sees tariffs — or the threat of them — as a powerful tool to bend nations to his will. He has used them in an unprecedented way, not only as the underpinning of his economic agenda, but also as the cornerstone of his foreign policy in his second term. He has wielded the import taxes as a threat to secure ceasefires from countries at war. He has used them to browbeat nations into promising to do more to stop people and drugs from flowing across their bo
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New UN report tackles 'inequality-pandemic cycle'
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) -- High inequality makes the world vulnerable to pandemics and creates a vicious cycle that puts public health and economies at risk, leading economists, health experts and the UN said Monday. The findings were based on two years of research by the UNAIDS-convened Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics and published in a report released ahead of meetings of the Group of 20 leaders in South Africa this month. "High levels of inequality, within and between countries, a
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Riot police separate opponents, loyalists of Serbia's president as tensions soar amid protests
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Hundreds of riot police Sunday separated opponents and loyalists of Serbia's autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic in central Belgrade as political tensions boiled after a year of persistent anti-government protests. Several thousand people faced off on both sides of the police cordons with officers in full gear standing in several rows between the shouting crowds who threw bottles, flares and stun grenades. Tensions in Belgrade soared a day after tens of thousands of peo
Nov. 3, 2025