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By Nafisa Eltahir and Khalid Abdelaziz CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) -Sudan’s army called on Friday for reservists and retired soldiers to re-enlist, a move seemingly aimed at expanding its numbers amid a deadly conflict with a rival paramilitary and one that may fuel fighting despite a truce. The army initially said all retired soldiers and able men should arm themselves for self-defence, but later clarified this to call on former soldiers to […]

By Fatos Bytyci ZVECAN, Kosovo (Reuters) -Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic placed the country’s army on full combat alert and ordered army units to move closer to the border with Kosovo on Friday, after protesters and police clashed in a majority Serb town in the neighbouring country. “An urgent movement (of troops) to the Kosovo border has been ordered,” defence minister Milos Vucevic said in a live TV broadcast. “It is […]

By Jacqueline Thomsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A member of the far-right Oath Keepers on Friday was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for her role in the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump who tried to overturn his presidential election defeat. Jessica Watkins was convicted in November by a federal jury in Washington of obstruction of an official proceeding for […]

(Reuters) -Atmus Filtration Technologies Inc, the filtration solutions business of U.S. diesel engine maker Cummins Inc, fetched a valuation of $1.8 billion in a strong market debut on Friday. The company’s shares opened at $21.67, up 11% from their initial public offering price of $19.5 a share. Atmus raised about $275 million by selling 14.1 million shares. The company had previously guided the IPO could be priced at between $18 […]

(Reuters) – Britain’s Geraint Thomas took a big step towards winning his first Giro d’Italia as he avoided any significant time losses to Maglia Rosa rival Primoz Roglic in a brutal Queen Stage high in the Dolomites on Friday. Colombia’s Santiago Buitrago (Team Bahrain Victorious) crossed the Stage 19 finish line at Tre Cime Di Lavaredo in first place while behind him the battle for the overall lead raged on […]

By Olena Harmash and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian missile hit a clinic in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Friday, killing two people and wounding 30 in an attack that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called a crime against humanity. Video footage showed a devastated building with smoke pouring out of it and rescue workers looking on. Much of the upper floor of what appeared to be a three-storey […]

NAIROBI (Reuters) -Anti-graft watchdog Transparency International has withdrawn an award it gave Kenya’s outgoing chief prosecutor, it said on Friday, accusing him of dropping high profile corruption cases. The Kenyan chapter of the global watchdog had awarded Noordin Haji its Integrity Award in 2019, saying he had led his office in prosecuting dozens of corruption cases, which was seen as an historic achievement in a country beset by graft. Haji, […]

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Croatian police on Friday said a drug and firearm trafficking ring operating across Europe had been broken by a law enforcement operation that arrested 37 people and seized drugs, money and guns in eight countries since last year. In the final phase of the operation, raids on Wednesday in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands were carried out by police from those countries supported by […]

By Ann Saphir and Michael S. Derby (Reuters) -Federal Reserve policymakers got a dose of unexpectedly strong economic data on Friday that bolstered the case for further monetary policy tightening to bring down persistently high inflation. Consumer spending surged 0.8% last month from March, the Commerce Department reported. That’s good news as far as showing the economy’s not on the precipice of a recession, but bad news for policymakers looking […]