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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 […]

A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person in Russia’s southwestern Oryol region, local officials said Sunday, while a separate strike hit an oil facility as part of Kyiv’s campaign of strikes on military and energy targets deep inside Russia. Oryol regional Gov. Andrei Klychkov said Sunday that one person died and nine were wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a residential building overnight in the regional capital, also called Oryol. […]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Iran and the U.S. inched closer to a deal to end the Iran war, as Qatari mediators traveled to Tehran on Sunday to finalize the agreement, according to two regional officials. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, expressed cautious optimism that the U.S. and Iran were finally approaching an agreement that could halt hostilities […]

By Emily Green and Herbert Villarraga TIJUANA, Mexico, June 14 (Reuters) – Some 25 miles (40 km) south of the U.S.-Mexico border, nestled between taquerias in the suburbs of Tijuana, hangs a flag in the Mexican colors of green, white and red. But its design is far from common in these parts. Inside is what owner Saied Assadi says is only the second Iranian restaurant in all of Mexico. “Food […]

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, June 14 (Reuters) – A senior Iranian official told Reuters a final draft of the memorandum of understanding with the U.S. covered a range of issues, from Tehran’s nuclear work to reopening the Strait of Hormuz and U.S. waivers on oil sanctions, with a final deal to be discussed in the 60 days following agreement by the two sides. The Iranian official said the draft memorandum […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Six months after President Donald Trump warned states not to regulate artificial intelligence, they are increasingly doing just that. Congress has stalled on producing federal regulation of artificial intelligence as states forge ahead and scrutinize how chatbots interact with children, how AI systems are used by employers and what developers must do to try to prevent an AI-caused catastrophe. State lawmakers have stepped back from earlier, […]

By Leah Douglas and Jason Lange WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) – Brian Rauch has felt the squeeze of higher gas prices on his 30-mile (50-km) drives from his home in rural Stevensville, Montana, to the doctor’s office. He has also noticed food prices going up and, as an Air Force veteran, sees little rationale for the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. These are among the reasons the 42-year-old increasingly disapproves of […]