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TEL AVIV (Reuters) -An Italian tourist was killed and five other tourists were wounded in a Tel Aviv car ramming attack on Friday, Israeli and Italian officials said. An Israeli security source identified the assailant as an Israeli Arab from the town of Kafr Qassem. A police officer who was nearby arrived at the scene to find several people wounded and an overturned car near a popular Tel Aviv promenade. […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea carried out an underwater strategic weapon system test from April 4 to April 7, state media KCNA said on Saturday. The country tested another kind of a nuclear-capable unmanned underwater attack weapon called “Haeil-2”, after it disclosed a new underwater drone system designed to make sneak attacks in enemy waters. “The test perfectly proved the reliability of the underwater strategic weapon system and its fatal […]

By Cheney Orr and Julia Harte NASHVILLE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visited Tennessee on Friday, planning to meet with state lawmakers after two members of her Democratic party were expelled from the legislature for siding with protesters pushing for stricter gun control measures after last month’s deadly shooting at a Nashville school. On Thursday, the Tennessee House of Representatives’ Republican supermajority voted to remove Democratic Representatives Justin Jones […]

TEL AVIV (Reuters) -One tourist was killed and five others were wounded in a Tel Aviv car ramming attack on Friday, Israeli authorities said. An Israeli security source identified the assailant as an Israeli Arab from the town of Kafr Qassem. A police officer who was nearby arrived at the scene to find several people wounded and an overturned car near a popular Tel Aviv promenade. The officer “neutralized” the […]

MIDDLESBROUGH, England (Reuters) -Burnley secured automatic promotion to the Premier League with seven games to spare after Friday’s 2-1 victory at Middlesbrough ensured Vincent Kompany’s side will finish in the second-tier Championship’s top two. Burnley will return to the Premier League after one season, having been relegated on the final day of the 2021-22 campaign, in which they finished third-bottom. Promotion can be worth over 300 million pounds ($372 million) […]

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – An Indiana high school did not break the law by allegedly forcing a music teacher to quit after he refused on religious grounds to use transgender students’ preferred names, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday. The rights of the teacher, John Kluge, to exercise his religious beliefs were outweighed by the potential disruption that his conduct could have on the learning environment at Brownsburg […]

By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) – Real estate magnate Harlan Crow has come under scrutiny after ProPublica reported on Thursday that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted luxury trips over decades from the Republican donor despite a federal law requiring the disclosure of most gifts. The following are some key facts about Crow. WHO IS HARLAN CROW? Crow, 74, is the chairman and former CEO of Crow Holdings, a Texas-based […]

By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – (This April 5 story has been corrected to clarify that Neuchips did not beat Qualcomm and Nvidia in one category of testing as it didn’t compete in the categories previously described, and Qualcomm’s results and rankings have been rectified in paragraphs 6-8) Artificial intelligence chips from Qualcomm Inc beat Nvidia Corp in two out of three measures of power efficiency in a new set of […]

By Philip Pullella and Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) -Pope Francis presided at one indoor service on Good Friday, but doctors ordered him to skip an outdoor evening “Way of the Cross” procession at Rome’s Colosseum after being hospitalised last week for bronchitis. Francis was following the service from his residence in the Vatican as a precaution after the temperature fell in Italy in recent days and a light snow fell […]