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(This April 6 story has been corrected to say that 124,000, not 100,000, people were flown out of Kabul in paragraph 18) By Nandita Bose and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday released a summary of classified reports that mostly blamed the chaotic August 2021 U.S. pullout from Afghanistan on his predecessor, Donald Trump, for failing to plan for the withdrawal he had agreed on […]

(This April 6 story has been corrected to say that 124,000, not 100,000, people were flown out of Kabul in paragraph 18) By Nandita Bose and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday released a summary of classified reports that mostly blamed the chaotic August 2021 U.S. pullout from Afghanistan on his predecessor, Donald Trump, for failing to plan for the withdrawal he had agreed on […]

By Steve Keating AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) -Brooks Koepka took advantage of ideal morning scoring conditions to put the LIV Golf flag a commanding four shots clear at the top of the Masters’ early second-round leaderboard on Friday, as rain and thunderstorms took aim at Augusta National. Koepka, who shared the overnight lead with Norway’s Viktor Hovland and Spain’s Jon Rahm, returned a spotless five-under 67 to set a 12-under target […]

(Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday defended luxury trips he has taken over decades, funded by real estate magnate and Republican donor Harlan Crow, saying he had been advised that he was not required to report this type of “personal hospitality” under federal rules. In a statement, Thomas also said that he has always sought to comply with disclosure guidelines. ProPublica reported on Thursday that the long-serving […]

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A former model has filed a lawsuit claiming a one-time executive at movie studio Miramax raped her after luring her to a hotel with the promise of a meeting with the company’s then-Chief Executive Harvey Weinstein. The lawsuit was filed in New York state court on Thursday by Sara Ziff, who says the alleged assault by Fabrizio Lombardo, the former head of Miramax in Italy, […]

By Elvira Pollina and Emilio Parodi MILAN (Reuters) -Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is “better than he was”, his friend Fedele Confalonieri said on Friday after visiting him in hospital, where he is being treated for a lung infection caused by chronic leukaemia. The 86-year-old billionaire media tycoon was rushed to Milan’s San Raffaele hospital on Wednesday, triggering speculation that his life might be in danger and drawing a […]

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Tesla is recalling just over 400 Model 3 vehicles in the United States because front suspension lateral link fasteners may loosen. Tesla will tighten or replace the lateral link fasteners to address the issue that could allow the lateral link to separate from the sub-frame on the recalled 2018 and 2019 model year vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said a lateral link separation […]

MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s federal government asked states to identify emergency hotspots and ramp up-testing for COVID-19, after the country recorded its highest daily case count since September, a Reuters tally showed on Friday. There were 6,050 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the federal health ministry said on Friday, continuing a sharp upward trend since a lull last year. At a meeting to review the degree […]

By Asif Shahzad and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan plans to launch a new nationwide operation to root out Islamist militants, the national security committee said on Friday, in a potentially costly move for a country already facing full-blown economic and political crises. One analyst said the operation would also serve as a pretext for the government to delay provincial elections it had been under pressure to hold next […]