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The bullion rose more than 3% on Thursday to breach the $5,500 per ounce mark for the first time.
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No one was injured when the motorist drove into a rear door of the building on Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. The man was arrested; the police are investigating the incident as a hate crime.
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F.B.I. agents searched a Fulton County, Ga., election center for ballots from 2020, escalating an investigation of a heavily Democratic jurisdiction the president has criticized over his defeat.
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;Resize=(620)) Two U.S. Democratic Representatives visited a five-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father at a Texas federal detention centre Wednesday, in a case that has stirred anger over the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and given fuel to Democrats and others pushing back against the actions of ICE.
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;Resize=(620)) For Palestinians in Gaza, the Rafah border crossing to Egypt is their gateway to the world. But since Israel seized it in May 2024, it has been largely shut. Now Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the crossing will reopen soon, as the U.S.-brokered Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan moves into its second phase.
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The central bank cut rates at its three previous meetings in an effort to support the job market. But with inflation still elevated, the Fed is cautious about additional rate cuts.
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;Resize=(620)) Two federal agents who were involved in ?Saturday's fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis have been placed on administrative leave, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson.
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Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, a former prime minister, was nominated to lead Iraq once again, but President Trump said he would cut U.S. support if that went ahead.
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;Resize=(620)) The Kremlin is denying a report that Russia suffered the largest number of casualties recorded for any major power in any conflict since the Second World War.
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;Resize=(620)) The fiancée of a man who was found dead in the snow after a crash last week in Ottawa is remembering him as a devoted father who worked long hours and came so near to seeing his family again.
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A new report warns that the number of soldiers killed, injured or missing in Russia's war in Ukraine could reach 2 million by spring
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 President Emmanuel Macron visits the United Kingdom on Thursday to mark the 80th anniversary of General de Gaulle's appeal to the French resistance and to talk Brexit with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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