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WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) – U.S. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday said that law enforcement believes that the alleged White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter was targeting Trump administration officials. “It does appear that he, he did, in fact, have set out to target folks that work in the administration, likely including the President,” Blanche told NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” adding that the suspect likely traveled by train […]

JERUSALEM, April 26 (Reuters) – Israel’s president said on Sunday that he will consider Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pardon request in his long-running corruption trial only after efforts to reach a plea deal are exhausted, signalling no decision will come soon. Netanyahu’s legal troubles, which began with investigations around a decade ago, have polarised Israelis and shaken national politics through five rounds of elections between 2019, the year of his […]

April 26 (Reuters) – Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi held talks in Oman on Sunday and discussed security in the Strait of Hormuz and broader Gulf waters and diplomatic efforts to end the Iran-U.S. conflict, according to an Iranian foreign ministry statement. In talks in Muscat with Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said, Araqchi said the U.S. military presence in the Middle East was fuelling insecurity and division and called […]

BELFAST, April 26 (Reuters) – An attempted murder investigation has begun after a car explosion on Saturday night outside a police station south of Belfast, Northern Ireland’s police service said on Sunday. “We have commenced an attempted murder investigation which will be led by our Terrorism Investigation Unit,” the force said in a statement. (Reporting by Amanda Ferguson, writing by Sam Tabahriti;Editing by Elaine Hardcastle) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Separatists in northern Mali said they joined Islamic militants in launching one of the biggest coordinated attacks on the Malian army in the capital and several other cities that left at least 16 wounded. It was the first time that a Tuareg-led separatist group, the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), said it had operated alongside the al-Qaida-linked militant group JNIM, which also claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attacks […]

LONDON (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland have declared a security alert in the town of Dunmurry, on the outskirts of Belfast, after reports that a car bomb exploded near a police station. Homes in the vicinity have been evacuated and members of the public are advised to avoid the area, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said on Sunday. “It is distressing and disturbing to wake up to the […]

SYDNEY, April 26 (Reuters) – Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Sunday said she would visit Japan, China, and South Korea this week for talks on energy security in the face of disruptions caused by the Middle East conflict. Wong said in a statement that meetings with her counterparts in the three countries would “help ensure we are coordinating effectively” amid upheaval on global energy markets. • Wong said in Tokyo she would meet Japan’s […]

BAMAKO, April 26 (Reuters) – Sustained gunfire rang out in a garrison town near Mali’s capital on Sunday, a Reuters witness said, a day after an al Qaeda affiliate and Tuareg rebels carried out one of the largest coordinated attacks in the country in recent years. The gunfire in the town of Kati suggested that fighting had entered a second day, despite the army saying it had reasserted control. The […]

BUDAPEST, April 26 (Reuters) – Hungary’s incoming prime minister Peter Magyar said on Sunday he would go to Brussels on Wednesday for informal talks with European Commission President Ursula von der ​Leyen to unblock funds frozen by the bloc over disputes with his predecessor. “There is no time to waste,” Magyar, whose landslide victory in an April 12 election ended nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s 16-year rule, ​said in a […]