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Russian dissident Gorinov fails in appeal against sentence for 'justifying terrorism'

(Reuters) - A Russian court on Thursday rejected an appeal by dissident Alexei Gorinov against a three-year prison sentence for "justifying terrorism", a human rights group said.

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Former Putin challenger is declared bankrupt by Russian court

(Reuters) - Russian opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin, who tried unsuccessfully to run against Vladimir Putin in a presidential election last year, was declared bankrupt by a Moscow court on Thursday, state media reported.

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Austria to shut border crossings to Hungary, Slovakia over foot and mouth

VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria will close two smaller crossings at its border with Slovakia and 21 at its border with Hungary from Saturday, in a bid to prevent foot-and-mouth disease from entering the country, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

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Hungary welcomes Netanyahu and announces it's quitting top war crimes court

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Hungary's capital early Thursday (April 3) to a red carpet treatment despite a warrant for his arrest issued by the world's top war crimes court.

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Israel's closeness to Trump fails to spare it from high tariffs

NEW YORK (Bloomberg): If Benjamin Netanyahu thought his closeness to Donald Trump would spare Israel from high US tariffs, he was wrong.

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Russia says U.S. threats of military strikes against Iran are unacceptable

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday that threats of military strikes against its ally Iran were unacceptable and warned that attacking the Islamic Republic could lead to potentially catastrophic results if nuclear installations were bombed.

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US committed to funding Angola's Lobito rail corridor despite spending cuts, diplomat says

LUANDA (Reuters) - The United States remains committed to funding the Lobito rail corridor, a project to help transport critical minerals from the central African copperbelt to the West, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive spending cuts, a U.S. diplomat said.

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Uninhabited islands with only penguins as residents among targets of US tariffs

SYDNEY: The Australian external territories of Heard and McDonald Islands – which boast colonies of penguins but no humans – are among the places targeted by sweeping US tariffs announced by President Donald Trump.

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Exclusive-Musk team issued inaccurate USAID firing notices, must send correct versions, say sources

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Termination notices sent by billionaire Elon Musk's cost-cutting team to U.S. Agency for International Development staff were so rife with errors that corrected versions are being issued to avoid affecting pensions and pay, according to five sources familiar with the issue.

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Russia bans Elton John AIDS Foundation to defend 'spiritual and moral values'

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's General Prosecutor on Thursday banned the activities of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, accusing it of taking a negative stance towards countries like Russia that protect "traditional spiritual and moral values".

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Judge to weigh if Trump administration violated order not to deport Venezuelans

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge will hold a hearing on Thursday over whether the Trump administration violated his order temporarily blocking the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members under a rarely-invoked 18th century law. 

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Russia's foreign ministry says France 'killed democracy' with Le Pen conviction

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that France had "killed democracy" with the conviction of far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

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Putin envoy Dmitriev says some forces are trying to sow discord between Russia and US

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin's investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev, who is visiting Washington this week, said on Thursday that unidentified forces were trying to sow tension between Russia and the United States.

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Rubio: US is committed to NATO, but Europe must spend more on defence

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The United States is as committed to NATO as ever but demands that European allies spend substantially more on defence, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday, while adding that the U.S. would give allies some time to do that.

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Turkish police detain 11 over opposition-led economic boycott

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police have detained 11 people as part of an investigation into social media calls for an economic boycott backed by the opposition following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, state media reported on Thursday.

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US South, Midwest face 'generational' flood threat after severe storms, two dead

(Reuters) -The National Weather Service warned on Thursday of "generational" floods in the U.S. South and Midwest as storms ripped across a swath of the country from Texas to Michigan, whipping up tornadoes and killing two people.

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Myanmar earthquake toll crosses 3,000; heat and rains fuel disease risk

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Extreme heat and heavy rain in Myanmar could cause disease outbreaks among earthquake survivors camping in the open, global aid bodies warned on Thursday, complicating rescue efforts made difficult by a civil war, as the death toll surpassed 3,000.

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Senegal lifts amnesty for some offences during deadly 2021-24 protests

DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal's parliament has approved revisions to an amnesty law covering 2021-24 protests, paving the way for possible prosecutions over the deaths of dozens of protesters.

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Greek feta producers fret over exports after US tariffs

KALAVRITA, Greece (Reuters) - A small cooperative of 1,200 stock breeders producing feta, Greece's trademark white soft cheese, in the southern Peloponnese peninsula had one big target this year: a market foray in the United States.

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For Trump, tariff gamble brings political risk

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -He called it "Liberation Day," but President Donald Trump's Wednesday unveiling of reciprocal tariffs could cause political headwinds for his party and economic pain for his constituents if his promises to recast the economy do not work out.