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(Reuters) – U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will visit the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine next week to assess the serious situation there, he announced on Saturday. Grossi is pressing for a security zone to be erected around what is Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, with six reactors, which has come under repeated shelling over the past months. It will be his second visit. Last September he […]

By Mahamat Ramadane N’DJAMENA, Chad (Reuters) – Chad’s interim president Mahamat Idriss Deby on Saturday pardoned 380 jailed members of an influential rebel group in an apparent bid to get it to join peace talks. Deby was installed by the military in 2021 after his father – longtime ruler Idriss Deby – was killed on the battlefield as his troops fought rebels from The Front for Change and Concord in […]

By Nathan Layne WACO, Texas (Reuters) -Die-hard fans of Donald Trump flocked to the ex-president’s election rally in Waco, Texas, on Saturday, brimming with defiance as their favored candidate faced overlapping threats of criminal indictment. Several thousand Trump supporters lined up outside the Waco Regional Airport waiting to go through security and enter the event, with the first speaker scheduled for 2 p.m. CDT (1900 GMT). The crowd, many wearing […]

By Guillermo Martinez BARRACAS, Spain (Reuters) -Spain’s first major wildfire of the year scorched more than 4,000 hectares (9,900 acres) of forest and forced 1,700 villagers to leave their homes in the Valencia and Aragon regions. Residents recounted fleeing their houses and leaving animals behind. “Bad, how am I supposed to feel? Your town is burning, your life is burning, Our animals were there and no one can tell us […]

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Strikes on Iranian-linked bases in Syria would draw a quick response, an Iranian security spokesperson said on Saturday, after the reported death of 19 people in one of the deadliest exchanges between the U.S. and Iranian-aligned forces in years. “Any pretext to attack bases created at the request of the Syrian government to deal with terrorism and Islamic State elements in this country will be met with an […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Challenger Shawn Fain has been declared the winner of the race for United Auto Workers president, narrowly leading the current union head Ray Curry, a spokesman for Fain said on Saturday. Fain’s campaign said he had a lead of 483 votes greater than the number of challenged votes remaining after ballot counting occurred earlier Saturday in a Detroit suburb. Court-appointed monitor Neil Barofsky did not immediately respond […]

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A drive by the hard-right coalition government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to enact sweeping changes to Israel’s judiciary has sparked domestic uproar and alarm among the country’s Western allies. WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT’S PROBLEM WITH THE JUDICIARY? Critics of the Supreme Court, including many in the coalition government, say the bench is left-leaning and elitist and has become too interventionist in the political sphere, […]

By Jonathan Allen COOKEVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) – Last April, when drag could still be performed in Tennessee without noticeable complaint, the curtains parted at Tennessee Tech University’s Backdoor Playhouse to reveal Joshua Lancaster wearing a black cowl, white face paint, black lipstick and white contact lenses. He was excited for the debut of his new drag persona, Witchcrafted. But the four-minute video of Lancaster lip-syncing and sashaying across the stage, […]

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A drive by the hard-right coalition government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to enact sweeping changes to Israel’s judiciary has sparked domestic uproar and alarm among the country’s Western allies. WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT’S PROBLEM WITH THE JUDICIARY? Critics of the Supreme Court, including many in the coalition government, say the bench is left-leaning and elitist and has become too interventionist in the political sphere, […]