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Greece to bring in Egyptian farm workers amid labour shortage
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will start bringing in workers from Egypt this summer to take on temporary farming jobs under a deal between the countries to tackle a labour shortage, the migration ministry said on Friday.
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Opposition leaders in India's Kashmir accuse government of sabotaging their campaigns
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Opposition leaders in India's troubled Kashmir valley have accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration of denying or cancelling permissions to hold campaign events, to help his party's "proxies".
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India top court grants temporary bail to opposition leader Kejriwal to campaign in elections
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's top court gave temporary bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a graft case on Friday, allowing him to campaign in the ongoing general elections, boosting the opposition alliance of which he is a key leader.
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Polish PM reshuffles cabinet ahead of European elections
WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced a cabinet reshuffle on Friday, with the coordinator of special services Tomasz Siemoniak taking on the additional post of interior minister.
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World
Taiwan rattled by 5.8 magnitude earthquake, no immediate reports of damage
TAIPEI (Reuters) -A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Taiwan's east coast on Friday, the island's weather administration said, with no immediate reports of damage.
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Russian missile strike sets houses ablaze in Ukraine's Kharkiv, officials say
KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -A Russian missile attack on Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv injured two people and set three houses on fire in the early hours of Friday, local officials said.
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Smartphones
Boater dies just feet from land when he dives in to find cellphone, US cops say
A man boating along Florida’s Gulf Coast died just feet from land, when he chased after a phone that fell overboard at the dock, according to investigators.
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Social media
Snapchat is focused on making app safe, CEO Evan Spiegel says
Snapchat owner Snap Inc wants to “take responsibility” for users’ experience on its app, including ensuring child safety, co-founder and chief executive officer Evan Spiegel said Thursday at the Bloomberg Technology Summit.
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World
Pandemic treaty talks to the wire, likely to miss first deadline, sources say
LONDON (Reuters) - Talks to draw up a global pact to help fight future pandemics are likely to miss an initial deadline on Friday, three sources close to the process said.
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Analysis-Why German politicians are facing growing violence
BERLIN (Reuters) - The black-clad attackers beat up Matthias Ecke so badly as he put up posters in Dresden that he needed surgery. In Nordhorn, a man threw eggs at a lawmaker then punched him in the face. In Berlin, a pensioner hit a senator on the head with a bag.
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World
Factbox-Who is Russia's Mikhail Mishustin?
(Reuters) - Here are some key facts about Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, whose reappointment as prime minister President Vladimir Putin proposed on Friday:
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Internet
Apple apologises for iPad ‘Crush’ ad after backlash
Apple apologised on May 9 after an ad for its latest-edition iPad caused an uproar for showing an industrial press crushing objects linked to human creativity, infuriating artists.
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World
Russia's Putin proposes reappointing Mishustin as prime minister
(Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed reappointing Mikhail Mishustin as prime minister, the speaker of the lower house of parliament said on Friday, keeping Putin's chief technocrat in charge of the government as Moscow presses its war in Ukraine.
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Mobile apps
Microsoft plans mobile-game store, vying with Apple, Google
Microsoft Corp will launch its own online store for mobile-game consumables in July, creating an alternative to Apple Inc and Google’s app stores and their fees.
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Technology
Why the use of sodium-ion batteries is set to expand
The idea of sodium-ion battery production is starting to take off, with the development of models for both industry and electric mobility. This technology is considered both safer and more sustainable than traditional lithium-ion batteries.
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World
Deaths in Brazil floods rise to 107, horse rescued from rooftop
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) -The death toll from severe flooding in southern Brazil has risen to 107, civil defense said on Thursday, as rescue operations continued and authorities began to see the cost of recovering from the devastation in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
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World
Anti-aircraft units intercept drone south of Moscow, no damage or injuries, mayor says
(Reuters) -Russian anti-aircraft units intercepted a drone south of Moscow and there were no injuries or damage from falling debris, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said early on Friday.
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World
Two Paris police officers wounded after man shot them inside police station
PARIS (Reuters) -A man shot and wounded two police officers in Paris after he got hold of one of the officer's weapons while he was being held at a police station, said Paris police chief Laurent Nunez on Friday, confirming earlier media reports.
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World
Trump lawyer questions Stormy Daniels' account of sex with Trump
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's lawyer sought to show inconsistencies in porn star Stormy Daniels' various tellings of a 2006 sexual encounter she has said she had with Trump, part of an effort on Thursday to undermine her credibility as a witness in the first criminal trial of a sitting or former U.S. president.
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Smartphones
We know late-night screens are bad for sleep. How do you stop doomscrolling in bed?
Over half of Americans spend time on their phones within an hour of going to sleep, according to a survey by the National Sleep Foundation. That's the very latest we should shut off devices, experts say.