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Floods in southern Brazil leave students without classrooms for a month

By Diego Vara PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of students in southern Brazil have been gone a month without seeing their classrooms after catastrophic floods submerged some schools

US says latest Rafah deaths won’t change Israel policy, military aid

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration said on Tuesday it was closely monitoring the probe into a deadly Israeli airstrike it called tragic, but that the recent deaths in

Trump sought to corrupt 2016 election with porn star payment, prosecutor tells jury

By Jack Queen, Luc Cohen and Andy Sullivan NEW YORK (Reuters) -A New York prosecutor told jurors that the hush money payment at the heart of former President Donald Trump's criminal trial was part of

Bulker damaged near Yemen by two missile attacks, security sources say

By Jana Choukeir, Tala Ramadan and Adam Makary DUBAI/CAIRO (Reuters) -A bulk carrier already taking on water after a Houthi missile attack off the coast of Yemen on Tuesday has reported further damage

UK Conservatives pledge to create 100,000 more apprenticeships

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party said it would create 100,000 more high skilled apprenticeship places per year by 2029 if it wins a national election on July

Pak former PM Nawaz Sharif admits Pakistan violated peace agreement with India in 1999

Islamabad , May 29 (ANI): Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif admitted on Tuesday that Islamabad 'violated' an agreement with India in 1999. Sharif's...

Sudan: Indian troops triumph in tug of war against Chinese counterparts

Khartoum , May 29 (ANI): Indian troops deployed in Sudan as part of a UN Peacekeeping mission emerged victorious in a remarkable Tug of...

Prosecutor says Trump hush money payment undermined 2016 election as trial nears end

By Jack Queen, Luc Cohen and Andy Sullivan NEW YORK (Reuters) -A New York prosecutor told jurors that Donald Trump engaged in a conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 election and then tried to cover it up,

Venus has more volcanism than previously known, new analysis finds

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Venus appears to be more volcanically active than previously known, according to scientists whose new analysis of decades-old radar images has spotted evidence of

US says latest Rafah deaths won’t impact Israel policy, military aid

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Tuesday said it was closely monitoring the probe into a deadly Israeli airstrike it called beyond tragic, but that the recent

On Camera

Arvind Subramanian on India having missed its chance to rationalise GST rates — ‘moment has passed’

Speaking at an event, the former CEA says he no longer thinks fuel & electricity should be included in GST and added that India has only now, 7 yrs later, reached pre-GST revenue levels.

Record 16.7% growth in defence production in a year — PSUs contribute 79.2% & private sector 20.8%

Ministry of Defence claims 60 percent rise in indigenous defence production in past 5 yrs, attributing it to policy reforms and soaring defence exports.

Modi’s new universe: the normal irritants of democracy & awkward chai with Rahul Gandhi

Changed reality for Modi govt in its 3rd innings is by no means rise of a new phenomenon. It's a return to old normal where even majorities had to routinely wrestle with storied million mutinies.