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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A social media influencer who once had 58,000 Twitter followers was convicted by a federal jury of election interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential race over a voter suppression scheme, the Justice Department said late on Friday. Douglass Mackey, also known as “Ricky Vaughn,” was convicted of the charge of conspiracy against rights stemming from his scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right […]

By Liliana Salgado LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) – A violent storm packing high winds and heavy rains ripped through Southern and Midwestern sections of the United States as it headed east on Saturday, leaving 18 dead and scores injured, according to officials and media reports. At least five people were killed in Arkansas, according to officials, as first responders sifted through debris for more possible victims after tornadoes sliced through […]

KYIV (Reuters) – A top Ukrainian cleric from a church with alleged Moscow ties was sentenced to house arrest on Saturday after a hearing into whether he glorified invading Russian forces and stoked religious divisions, the church said. Kyiv is cracking down on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) on the grounds it is pro-Russian and collaborating with Moscow, a charge the church denies. In a statement, the UOC said a […]

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Consumer price inflation in Pakistan jumped to a record 35.37% in March from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said on Saturday, as at least 16 people were killed in stampedes for food aid. The March inflation number eclipsed February’s 31.5%, the bureau said, as food, beverage and transport prices surged up to 50% year-on-year. Thousands of people have gathered at flour distribution centres […]

By Liliana Salgado LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) – A violent storm packing high winds and heavy rains ripped through Southern and Midwestern sections of the United States as it headed east on Saturday, leaving 18 dead and scores injured, according to officials and media reports. At least five people were killed in Arkansas, according to officials, as first responders sifted through debris for more possible victims after tornadoes sliced through […]

By Lizbeth Diaz El PASO (Reuters) – After her husband survived a fire which killed dozens of migrants at a detention center in northern Mexico, Venezuelan Viangly Infante crossed into the United States on Saturday, in search of new opportunities for her three children. Infante’s husband, Eduard Caraballo, was transferred by ambulance from a hospital in Ciudad Juarez, where the fire happened, to a health center in El Paso, Texas, […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – New Bayern Munich coach Thomas Tuchel was in no mood for big celebrations after his team’s 4-2 victory over Bundesliga title rivals and former team Borussia Dortmund on Saturday, saying there was room for improvement. Tuchel returned to the Bundesliga to take over at Bayern after they made the shock decision to sack Julian Nagelsmann with the team second in the standings and in the quarter-finals of […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A Palestinian motorist rammed his car into a group of people in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Israeli military said, wounding three before soldiers opened fire at him, with the Palestinian health ministry saying he had been killed. A Palestinian official said the 23-year-old was a member of the Palestinian security forces. In Jerusalem, a man detained by Israeli police near a flashpoint holy site […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A Palestinian motorist rammed his car into a group of people in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Israeli military said, wounding three before soldiers opened fire at him, with the Palestinian health ministry saying he had been killed. A Palestinian official said the 23-year-old was a member of the Palestinian security forces. In Jerusalem, a man detained by Israeli police near a flashpoint holy site […]