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WASHINGTON/LONDON, (Reuters) – Three U.S. lawmakers have called for more scrutiny of NewsBreak, a popular news aggregation app in the United States, after Reuters reported it has Chinese origins and has used artificial intelligence tools to produce erroneous stories.

(Reuters) – Virgin Galactic SPCE.N flew four tourists to the edge of space and back aboard its spaceplane, marking the second flight this year, the Richard Branson-founded company said yesterday.

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo,  (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist rebels killed at least 38 people in an overnight attack on villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, two district officials and a civil society leader said on Saturday.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO,  (Reuters) – The Israeli military said it rescued four hostages held since October in a raid in the central Gaza Strip today while Palestinian officials said an Israeli attack in the same area killed more than 50 people.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters)  – South African opposition parties said yesterday they were waiting for more details on a proposal by the African National Congress to form a government of national unity after it lost its majority for the first time in the democratic era.

AYODHYA, India, (Reuters) –  The opening of a grand Hindu temple just three months ahead of India’s general election was supposed to be a crowning moment for populist prime minister Narendra Modi that would carry his party to a dominant victory with its Hindu-first agenda.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to the Middle East next week, the U.S.

POINTE DU HOC, France, (Reuters) –  Atop the cliff that U.S.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s National Democratic Alliance formally presented its claim yesterday to form a government, as Modi promised that his new coalition of 15 parties would strive for unanimity and emerge successful.

ST PETERSBURG,  (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said today Russia needed to cut imports, significantly boost the use of non-Western currencies in trade settlement and called for a major expansion of the country’s domestic financial markets.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) –  Israel hit a Gaza school yesterday with what it described as a targeted airstrike on up to 30 Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters inside, and a Hamas official said 40 people were killed including women and children sheltering at the U.N.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – The Philippine coast guard yesterday accused its Chinese counterpart of blocking efforts to evacuate a sick member of its armed forces in the South China Sea, calling its actions “barbaric and inhumane”.

(Reuters) – SpaceX’s Starship rocket survived a fiery, hypersonic return from space and achieved a breakthrough landing demonstration in the Indian Ocean yesterday, completing a full test mission around the globe on the rocket’s fourth try.

(Reuters) – Boeing’s BA.N new Starliner capsule and an inaugural two-member NASA crew safely docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, meeting a key test in proving the vessel’s flight-worthiness and sharpening Boeing’s competition with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France plans to provide Mirage 2000 warplanes to Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron told French TV stations yesterday.

(Reuters) – Boeing’s BA.N new Starliner capsule and its inaugural two-member NASA crew were set to approach the International Space Station for docking today after helium leaks detected on the spacecraft showed fresh problems in the crucial test mission.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia has approved a project to build the first high-speed passenger railway between its two biggest cities, Moscow and St.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) –  Israel targeted a Gaza school last night that it said contained an Hamas compound, killing fighters involved in the Oct.

ST PETERSBURG, Russia,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday he could deploy conventional missiles within striking distance of the United States and its European allies if they allowed Ukraine to strike deeper into Russia with long-range Western weapons.

HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) formally named him yesterday to lead a new coalition government for a third straight term, a day after it regained power with a surprisingly slim majority.