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By Clark Mindock (Reuters) – A judge in Hawaii has rejected a bid by the state’s transportation department to dismiss a lawsuit filed on behalf of 14 young people who claim it is violating the state constitution by failing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Judge Jeffrey Crabtree in Honolulu ruled on Thursday the youth plaintiffs could pursue their claims. He said the Hawaii Department of Transportation is shirking its duty […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Two Israeli sisters were killed on Friday in a shooting attack on their car in the occupied West Bank, Israeli authorities said. The attack came with Israel on high alert in Jerusalem after a day of violence along the Lebanese and Gaza borders. Israel’s military said soldiers had arrived at the scene of a reported collision between Israeli and Palestinian vehicles near the Jewish settlement of Hamra and […]

By Clark Mindock (Reuters) – A judge in Hawaii has rejected a bid by the state’s transportation department to dismiss a lawsuit filed on behalf of 14 young people who claim it is violating the state constitution by failing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Judge Jeffrey Crabtree in Honolulu ruled on Thursday the youth plaintiffs could pursue their claims. He said the Hawaii Department of Transportation is shirking its duty […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian investigators have charged Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich with espionage, the Interfax news agency reported, citing an unidentified source. Russia’s Federal Security Service, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said on March 30 that it had detained Gershkovich in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg and had opened an espionage case against the 31-year-old for collecting what it said were state secrets about the military […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian investigators have charged Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich with espionage, the Interfax news agency reported. (Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

(Reuters) – A “more experienced and better prepared” Frank Lampard should be made Chelsea’s permanent manager, the Premier League club’s former coach Guus Hiddink said. Lampard was confirmed as the club’s interim manager on Thursday in the wake of Graham Potter’s dismissal following a string of poor results which left the team 11th in the Premier League. “I would like him to be considered not just as an interim coach, […]

By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury yields climbed and U.S. index futures closed modestly higher after employment data for March indicated the labor market remains tight, but was largely in line with market expectations. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 236,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said, compared with the 239,000 expectation of economists surveyed by Reuters. Data for February was revised higher to show 326,000 jobs were […]

(Reuters) – Ukrainian artistic swimmers Maryna and Vladyslava Aleksiiva have spent years training for Paris 2024 but their Olympic dreams hang in the balance after the government decided to block its athletes from competing in qualifiers if they include Russians. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has recommended Russians and Belarusians be allowed to return to international competition as neutrals since their ban after last year’s invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow […]

(Repeats to add metadata, no change to content of story) By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury yields climbed and U.S. index futures closed modestly higher after employment data for March indicated the labor market remains tight, but was largely in line with market expectations. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 236,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said, compared with the 239,000 expectation of economists surveyed by Reuters. Data for […]