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BOSTON, (Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday blocked JetBlue Airways’  JBLU.O planned $3.8 billion acquisition of ultra-low-cost carrier Spirit Air-lines SAVE.N after

KARACHI/DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Pakistan said neighbouring Iran has violated its airspace resulting in the death of two children, hours after Iranian state media said missiles targeted two bases of militant group Jaish al Adl yesterday.

WASHINGTON/DAVOS,  (Reuters) – The U.S. military carried out new strikes in Yemen yesterday against anti-ship ballistic missiles in a Houthi-controlled part of the country as a missile struck a Greek-owned vessel in the Red Sea.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) –  Musician Elton John was elevated to the rare status of EGOT on Monday when a livestream of a concert from his farewell tour won an Emmy award.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Global tobacco use has tumbled in a generation with one in five people smoking versus one in three in 2000, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military said yesterday its air force destroyed a Russian Beriev A-50 surveillance plane and an Ilyushin Il-22 airborne command post in the Sea of Azov area in an operation that could delay some future Russian missile strikes.

DOHA/GAZA/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Hamas appeared to show the dead bodies of two Israeli hostages yesterday after warning Israel they might be killed if it did not stop its bombardment of Gaza.

DES MOINES, Iowa,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump secured a resounding win in the first 2024 Republican presidential contest in Iowa yesterday, asserting his command over the party despite facing scores of criminal charges as he seeks an election rematch with President Joe Biden.

DUBAI/BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they attacked the “spy headquarters” of Israel in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, state media reported late yesterday, while the elite force said they also struck in Syria against the Islamic State.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – Plaques turning the spotlight on Lisbon’s role in slavery and “silenced” African history have been installed in different locations across the city, a long-awaited moment for many given the country’s lack of acknowledgement of its colonial past.

(Reuters) – An ethnic armed group in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine said it has taken control of a town bordering India and Bangladesh, marking the latest loss for the military government as it battles rebellion in several parts of the country.

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s president-elect Lai Ching-te could face a tough four years in office with no parliamentary majority, an opposition which wanted to re-start a vexed service trade deal with China and the ever present threat of military action from Beijing.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired an apparent intermediate-range missile into the sea on Sunday, South Korea and Japan said, as tensions run high after Pyongyang’s recent launches of an intercontinental ballistic missile and its first military spy satellite.

LONDON (Reuters) – British police on Sunday arrested six people who are members of the Palestine Action protest group as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to disrupt the London Stock Exchange.

(Reuters) – A volcano erupted in southwest Iceland on Sunday, with molten lava flows reaching the outskirts of a small fishing town by midafternoon, setting some houses alight, although the town was evacuated earlier and no people were in danger, authorities said.

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – Denmark’s King Frederik X ascended the throne today, succeeding his mother, Queen Margrethe II, who formally abdicated after 52 years as monarch, with big crowds gathered in the capital to witness history.

DOHA/GAZA,  (Reuters) – Israel kept up bombardments in the Gaza Strip yesterday, vowing to press ahead with its offensive to destroy the Islamist movement Hamas as the war approaches the 100-day mark with no end in sight.

TAIPEI, (Reuters) – Taiwanese voters swept the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential candidate Lai Ching-te into power yesterday, strongly rejecting Chinese pressure to spurn him, as China said it would not give up on achieving “reunification”.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. congressional leaders have agreed on a two-tranche stopgap spending bill to keep the federal government funded into March and avert a partial government shutdown starting late next week, a source familiar with the measure told Reuters yesterday.

TBILISI, (Reuters) – A large protest was held in Tbilisi yesterday to demand harsh punishment for a woman accused of defacing a religious icon depicting Josef Stalin which was recently-installed in the Georgian capital, as tensions over the incident remained high.