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Damaged buildings at Kafr Kila following Israeli army activity across the border between Israel and Lebanon. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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- Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a 32-hour ceasefire over a two-day period for Orthodox Easter and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv would abide by the measure.
- " Sometimes I could hear her voice just catch a little bit." White House reporter Bo Erickson was inside the room when Melania Trump delivered an emotional address distancing herself from Jeffrey Epstein. He tells the Reuters World News podcast about the surprising speech.
- The finale to NASA's celebrated 10-day mission is expected to begin with the separation of Orion's crew capsule from its service module, followed by a fiery re-entry through Earth's atmosphere.
- A court in Eswatini has ruled that the first five migrants the Trump administration sent to the African kingdom have a right to a lawyer, after they were denied legal representation on their transfer from the US to a Swazi jail in July.
- Taiwanese officials are tracking what they view as a worrying rise in Chinese naval activity and military pressure against the island, even as Beijing presses a message of peace and cooperation in meetings with Taiwan's opposition leader.
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Cargo ship with shipping containers at the port of Oakland , Oakland, California. February 23, 2026. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
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- Some shippers caught between high jet fuel prices and congestion in vital Middle East waterways are now looking for transport routes in unexpected places, with a recent ceasefire between Iran and the United States unlikely to offer quick relief.
- A US trade court will consider the legality of a 10% global import tax imposed by the Trump administration, which several states and small businesses say sidesteps a US Supreme Court ruling that invalidated most of Trump's previous tariffs.
- Trump warned Tehran not to charge tolls on ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz, as a mounting global energy crisis prompted Japan to announce a further emergency oil release.
- Meta said it is pulling ads from Facebook and Instagram aimed at recruiting new plaintiffs for ongoing litigation accusing it and other social media companies of designing their platforms to be addictive to young users.
- Diminishing demand for late-night drinking and rising operating costs mean London's nightclubs are having to work harder than ever to keep their doors open.
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How the AI boom derailed clean‑air efforts in one of America's most polluted cities |
Barbara Johnson stands beside her husband as he uses an oxygen concentrator, Florissant, Missouri. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant
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Barbara Johnson has been fighting coal pollution for decades in her mostly Black neighborhood of North St. Louis as an organizer with Metropolitan Congregations United.
Until recently, she had reason to believe things would improve: tougher federal soot standards adopted in 2024 under the Biden administration were scheduled to go into effect in 2027, requiring plants to slash emissions or shut down. That would have forced one of the area’s biggest polluters - Ameren’s Labadie Energy Center power plant - to cut its soot emissions in half to stay in business.
Johnson’s hopes vanished in February, however, when the Trump administration scrapped the standards before they took effect.
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A wolf that went missing after escaping from its enclosure in O-world zoo, Daejeon, South Korea. Daejeon City Corporation/Handout via REUTERS
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A wolf that escaped from its enclosure in a South Korean zoo has spent three days on the loose, captivating the public, spawning a cryptocurrency meme coin and even prompting a message of concern from the country's president.
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