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Drones are key to gain advantage over Russia, Ukraine army chief says
(Reuters) - The development of unmanned systems, or drones, is key to give Kyiv an advantage over "a numerically superior" Russian forces, Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said late on Monday. "The development of the use of ...
Indonesia fishing village grapples with piles of trash brought in by tides
By Willy Kurniawan TELUK, Indonesia (Reuters) - Solikah, an Indonesian housewife living in the fishing village of Teluk, was in tears as she pointed to piles of trash strewn on a beach close to her home of 40 years. Teluk, in the Indonesian ...
Number of South Korea marriages edges up in 2023 after 11 years of falls
SEOUL (Reuters) - The number of marriages in South Korea rose in 2023 for the first time in more than a decade, lifted by pent-up demand from couples delaying nuptials during the pandemic, but the data did not point to a sustained rebound in a ...
New York mayor accused of sexually assaulting transit co-worker in 1993
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) - A former New York City employee filed suit on Monday accusing Mayor Eric Adams of sexually assaulting her in 1993, when both worked for the municipal transit police bureau, after she went to him seeking help in ...
Reddit, YouTube must face lawsuits claiming they enabled Buffalo mass shooter
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Reddit and Google's YouTube were ordered by a New York state judge to face lawsuits seeking to hold them responsible for helping enable the avowed white supremacist who killed 10 Black people in 2022 at a ...
Israeli airstrikes kill 20 in Gaza, Palestinian officials say
CAIRO (Reuters) - Twenty Palestinians were killed in the early hours of Tuesday in Israeli air strikes on Rafah and central parts of the Gaza Strip, Gaza health officials said. In the southern Gaza city of Rafah near the Egyptian border, where ...
US IRS chief sees workforce topping 100,000 within three years
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Danny Werfel said on Monday that the tax agency will need to boost its workforce to over 100,000 people over the next three years to achieve its modernization, service ...
Israeli airstrikes target Damascus countryside, Syria says
AMMAN (Reuters) - Israel early on Tuesday launched missiles at several military targets outside the Syrian capital Damascus resulting in some "material damage," Syria's defense ministry said. Syrian air defenses intercepted Israeli "missiles and ...
Biden, Japan's Kishida and Philippines' Marcos to hold April summit at White House
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr for a summit in Washington on April 11 to discuss economic relations and the Indo-Pacific, the White House said on ...
Afghan refugee convicted in New Mexico Muslim killings case
By Andrew Hay (Reuters) - A New Mexico jury on Monday found an Afghan asylum seeker guilty of murdering a Pakistani immigrant in one of three ambush-style shootings of Muslim men that terrified the Islamic community in the state's largest city ...