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By Crispian Balmer ROME, June 14 (Reuters) – General Roberto Vannacci launched his new far-right party on Sunday, posing a direct challenge to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s grip on power as he seeks to pull Italy in a more hardline, nationalist direction ahead of elections next year. Introduced by a party official as a modern-day Julius Caesar, the 57-year-old former paratrooper was greeted by chants of “Generale, Generale, Generale” as […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Days before the U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia, President Donald Trump has endorsed U.S. Rep. Mike Collins over former football coach Derek Dooley, putting his stamp of approval on another loyalist who some conservatives believe could be a risky bet in November. The Republican candidates are competing Tuesday for the chance to take on Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in one of the most closely watched campaigns in […]

June 14 (Reuters) – Kansas City, England’s base for the World Cup, was hit with a tornado warning just hours after the team arrived, as the weather service told residents to take shelter to avoid a severe thunderstorm. The weather service said the storm could cause winds as fast as 80 miles (129 km) per hour, and tornado sirens were sounded on Saturday evening. “Take shelter in a sturdy building, […]

By Rohith Nair MIAMI, June 14 (Reuters) – Somali soccer referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, who was denied entry into the United States to officiate at the World Cup, will be paid his full tournament fee. The Trump administration said the United States had denied Artan entry for the World Cup because of his ​links to “suspected members of terror organizations”. A source familiar with the matter said even though Artan […]

BRUSSELS, June 14 (Reuters) – The European Commission said on Sunday that it is assessing the practical implications of a U.S. export control directive impacting artificial intelligence company Anthropic and that measures should not be discriminatory against partners. Anthropic said on Friday it would “abruptly disable” its most advanced AI models for all users after the U.S. government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, citing […]

ATLANTA (AP) — When Georgia lawmakers return to the Capitol this week for a special session, they are expected to try to clean up an election mess of their own making. The election system used throughout the political battleground state relies on a QR code printed on ballots to tally the votes. Legislators passed a law two years ago barring the use of that barcode for the official vote count […]

LONDON, June 14 (Reuters) – British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson said he was detained at Heathrow Airport on Saturday and had his phone seized, after a week when he posted heavily online about racist and anti-immigrant riots in Northern Ireland.  Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, said on X he was held on Saturday evening for around three hours under the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act.  “My phone has […]

By Gradel Muyisa and Benoit Nyemba NIZI, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 14 (Reuters) – After the Kpangba displacement camp became the first in this part of war-torn Congo to record deaths from Ebola two weeks ago, health workers rushed to trace those who had come into contact with the deceased to break chains of transmission.   But the workers – from the provincial health ministry, the World Health Organization and […]

MOSCOW, June 14 (Reuters) – One person was killed and nine more were injured on Sunday after Ukrainian drones hit an apartment building in the Russian city of Oryol, south of Moscow, the regional governor said. Photographs published by Oryol Regional Governor Andrei Klychkov showed blown-out and blackened windows of several stories of a high-rise apartment building in the city of some 300,000. Klychkov said the situation was under the […]