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Obama rips McCain for $5 million "rich" definition

Reuters - Politics - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) - How much money makes a person rich? That's the latest question dividing Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. presidential race.

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Tanks move, but still no sign of Russian pullout

Reuters - World News - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
GORI, Georgia (Reuters) - A Russian tank crashes through a barricade of Georgian police cars, explosions ring out from a military base as Russian troops destroy Georgian arms and ammunition, soldiers sit listlessly at the roadside.

General Dynamics settles Navy fraud case at $4 mln

Reuters - Politics - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Dynamics Corp has agreed to settle charges that it overbilled the U.S. government for Navy plane and submarine parts by paying $4 million to the government, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday.

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FACTBOX: The hows and whys of the vice presidency

Reuters - Politics - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
(Reuters) - It may at times seem the least consequential high office in the world but the U.S. vice president is only a heartbeat away from one of the toughest jobs in the world.

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Russia military actions a "dangerous game": Rice

Reuters - Politics - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Moscow on Monday that it was playing a dangerous game with the United States and its NATO allies.

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Suicide car bomb kills 5 in western Iraq: police

Reuters - World News - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb at a police checkpoint in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Monday, killing five policemen and wounding seven, police said.

Pakistanis jubilant over Musharraf's resignation

Reuters - World News - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistanis danced in the streets on Monday after beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation, with many ordinary people hoping his departure would bring improvement to their lives.

Baby pronounced dead lives after hours in cooler

Reuters - World News - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A stillborn Israeli baby who was pronounced dead by doctors "came back to life" on Monday after spending hours in a hospital refrigerator.

U.N. rights body urges Russia fight racism

Reuters - World News - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
GENEVA (Reuters) - A key United Nations rights body voiced alarm on Monday at mounting racial violence in Russia and called on Moscow to take firm action against ultra-nationalist and neo-Nazi groups and hate speech in the media.

Sudan warns "consequences" over Bashir warrant: U.N.

Reuters - World News - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan has warned the United Nations of "serious consequences" for its staff and facilities if the International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir over Darfur, a U.N. envoy said on Monday.

U.S. Peace Corps to return to Liberia after war

Reuters - World News - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
MONROVIA (Reuters) - U.S. Peace Corps volunteers are to return to Liberia nearly 20 years after they fled a civil war, the West African country's Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

Hit men kill 13 at party in Mexico tourist town

Reuters - World News - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Suspected drug hit men opened fire on a family gathering at a tourist town in northern Mexico killing 13 people including a baby.

U.S. says Russia should withdraw from Georgia

Reuters - Politics - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - The White House on Monday called for Russia to withdraw forces from Georgia "without delay" as a newspaper reported Moscow had moved missile launchers into the breakaway South Ossetia region.

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Septuplet mother says family can't cope alone

Reuters - World News - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - An Egyptian woman who gave birth to septuplets last week after taking fertility drugs said on Monday her family was too poor to raise the newborns.

World Bank chief urges resumption of WTO talks

Reuters - Politics - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the World Bank added his voice on Monday to those calling for a revival of last month's abortive world trade talks.

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Confused sea turtles march into Italian restaurant

Reuters - World News - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
ROME (Reuters) - About 60 newly hatched sea turtles lost their way during their ritual passage to the sea and marched into an Italian restaurant instead, a conservation worker said on Monday.

U.S. pledges to help Pakistan fight extremism

Reuters - Politics - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - The United States praised Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as a committed partner against terrorism and pledged after his resignation on Monday to keep a good relationship with the new government and fight extremism together.

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UK pedophile was "librarian" for global abuse ring

Reuters - World News - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
LONDON (Reuters) - A pedophile who acted as a "librarian" for a global Internet child abuse ring was jailed on Monday after one of the biggest undercover police investigations into online abuse in Britain.

40 years on, Czechs chilled by invasion of Georgia

Reuters - World News - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
DECIN, Czech Republic (Reuters) - Vera Machutova woke one August night in 1968 to the thunder of Soviet tanks surging through this Czech city on the East German frontier.

Nepal's former guerrilla chief sworn in as PM

Reuters - World News - Mon, 2026-04-27 03:47
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A former Maoist guerrilla chief who led a decade-long insurgency against Nepal's Hindu monarchy was sworn in on Monday as the Himalayan republic's first prime minister.

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