HAVANA: Cuba’s coast guard shot dead four people and injured six others traveling in a US-registered speedboat in an exchange of fire off the Cuban shore on Wednesday, the interior ministry in Havana said. The confrontation comes amid heightened tensions between the United States and communist Cuba, which lies just 100 miles (160 kilometers) across

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WASHINGTON: The FBI subpoenaed records of phone calls made by Kash Patel and Susie Wiles, now the FBI director and White House Chief of Staff, when they were both private citizens in 2022 and 2023 during the federal probe of Donald Trump, Patel told Reuters on Wednesday.

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KYIV: US President Donald Trump spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of a fresh round of talks Thursday aimed at ending Russia’s invasion, both sides said on Wednesday. A White House official gave AFP no further details about the call, which came a day before Ukrainian and US envoys were to meet, and

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NEW YORK: Harvey Weinstein has hired Luigi Mangione and Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers to represent him at his third New York rape trial, reshaping his legal team after declining to end the matter with a guilty plea. The lawyers, Jacob Kaplan, Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, confirmed the move in court papers Tuesday. They take

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CAIRO: Egypt on Tuesday urged the international community to better support Lebanon’s armed forces as the country moves forward with a plan to disarm the militant group Hezbollah and bring all weapons under state control. Speaking at a preparatory meeting in Cairo ahead of next month’s Paris conference in support of the Lebanese army, Egypt’s

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GENEVA: A total of 58 people are still in hospital following the deadly inferno that engulfed a Swiss bar during New Year celebrations, Switzerland’s Keystone-ATS news agency reported Tuesday. Nearly eight weeks on from the tragedy that killed 41 people and injured 115 others, just over half of those wounded in the fire in the

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Trump administration considers requiring banks to collect citizenship information  The Washington Post Trump administration considers forcing banks to verify customers’ citizenship  CNN Trump administration reportedly weighs move to bar non-citizens from banks  Axios Trump administration weighs citizenship requirement for bank account holders  Semafor Trump Has Terrifying New Idea for Tracking Undocumented Immigrants  The New Republic

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Two Missouri Deputies Are Killed After Traffic Stop in Christian County  The New York Times BREAKING News: 2 Christian County deputies killed, 2 other officers wounded; man wanted in shooting also dead  KY3 Missouri suspect taken into custody after deputy fatally shot, ending manhunt  Fox News Two Missouri deputies killed hours apart in shootings as suspect is shot

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The US Justice Department disclosures give fresh clues about how tech companies handle government inquiries about your data.

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NEW DELHI: A chartered air ambulance with seven people on board crashed in eastern India on Monday, the country’s aviation regulator said. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said the Beechcraft C90 operating a “medical evacuation (Air Ambulance) flight” crashed in the Kasaria area of the eastern state of Jharkahnd. The fate of the

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