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Putin returns 'Iron Felix' Dzerzhinsky to Russia's spy school
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW, April 24 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's Federal Security Service's spy academy to carry the name of "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the...
Apr 24, 2026
Forty years after nuclear disaster, Ukraine's Chornobyl plant is haunted by war
By Dan Peleschuk and Sergiy Karazy CHORNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, Ukraine, April 24 (Reuters) - Denys Khomenko betrays no emotion recalling the night last year when a Russian strike drone tore into th...
Apr 24, 2026
No US-Iran peace talks in sight, but Islamabad maintains security lockdown
By Ariba Shahid ISLAMABAD, April 24 (Reuters) - For nearly a week, Pakistan's capital has been waiting for peace talks between the U.S. and Iran to take place there, and although there is no sign the ...
Apr 24, 2026
War, drought, aid shortfall to fuel hunger in 2026, global report says
By Crispian Balmer ROME, April 24 (Reuters) - Conflict, drought and shrinking aid will keep global hunger at critical levels in 2026, with food insecurity expected to worsen in some of the world's mos...
Apr 24, 2026
Indonesia reaffirms it has no plan to impose tolls in Malacca Strait
By Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA, April 24 (Reuters) - Indonesia has no plan to impose tolls on ships passing through the Malacca Strait, its finance minister said on Friday, after his comments about mone...
Apr 24, 2026
France, Germany continue to work on fighter jet project, Macron says
NICOSIA, April 24 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday tasked their defence ministries with continuing to work on the contentious Franco-German F...
Apr 24, 2026
Hapag-Lloyd says one ship has crossed Strait of Hormuz
FRANKFURT, April 24 (Reuters) - Container shipping group Hapag-Lloyd said on Friday that one of its ships has crossed the Strait of Hormuz but did not have any information on the circumstances or timi...
Apr 24, 2026
Giant ice tower delays opening of Everest climbing route
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, April 24 (Reuters) - Hundreds of mountaineers are stranded at the Himalayan base camp for Mount Everest as a crevasse strewn with chunks of ice, including one towering block...
Apr 24, 2026
Factbox-From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access
April 24 (Reuters) - Australia in December became the world's first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's YouTube and Meta's Inst...
Apr 24, 2026
EU to prepare blueprint for mutual assistance pact, amid NATO doubts
By Michele Kambas and Ingrid Melander NICOSIA, April 24 (Reuters) - EU leaders have asked officials to prepare a blueprint for how the bloc's previously obscure mutual assistance clause would work, ho...
Apr 24, 2026
