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Kites and victory cries fill Lahore skies as festival returns after long ban
LAHORE, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Extravagantly coloured kites dueled above Lahore and cries of victory rang out from rooftops on Friday, as the city celebrated the lifting of an 18-year ban on a spectacular three-day traditional Punjabi kite-flying festival.
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British serial killer 'Suffolk Strangler' gets another life sentence for 1999 murder
LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A British serial killer dubbed the "Suffolk Strangler" by the media after he killed five young women was on Friday sentenced for an earlier murder of a teenager committed over 25 years ago.
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Iran, US nuclear talks in Oman were a good start, Iran's top diplomat says
MUSCAT/DUBAI, Feb 6 (Reuters) - High-stakes nuclear talks between Iran and the United States held in Oman on Friday were a good beginning and will continue, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said.
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Norway's crown prince says he is looking after the family
OSLO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Norway's Crown Prince Haakon said on Friday that the most important thing in recent days has been to look after his family at a difficult time.
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"A blessing": Hopeful Argentine farmers greet rain with relief, but still worried about risks to harvest
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Bus plunges into ravine in Bolivia, killing at least 10
LA PAZ, Feb 6 (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed and several others seriously injured when a bus plunged about 100 meters (330 feet) into a ravine on Thursday night in Bolivia's highlands, police said.
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Berlin airport slowly reopens after black ice grounds flights
FRANKFURT, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Berlin airport is resuming operations but with significant delays and cancellations after black ice had grounded flights in the German capital earlier on Friday, the airport said.
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Exclusive-Some UAE companies pull out of defence show in Saudi Arabia as tensions linger
DUBAI, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Some UAE companies have pulled out of a major defence show taking place in Saudi Arabia, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters, the latest sign that a rift between the two Gulf oil powers is seeping into business interests.
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France and Canada deepen Arctic ties with Greenland consulates
NUUK, Greenland Feb 6 (Reuters) - France and Canada will open consulates in Greenland's capital Nuuk on Friday, deepening Arctic ties amid rising geopolitical tensions after U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed his interest in acquiring the strategically located island.
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Olympics-Italy's Meloni plays down ICE agent furore as she meets Vance
MILAN, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met U.S. Vice President JD Vance in Milan on Friday, hours before the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, using the encounter to reaffirm the strength of U.S.–Italian ties despite tensions around the presence of U.S. security personnel at the Games.
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Canada sends AIM missiles for Ukraine air defences, Ukrainian minister says
Feb 6 (Reuters) - Canada is supplying AIM missiles to strengthen Ukraine's air defences, Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov wrote on X on Friday, adding that delivery is already under way.
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Russian foreign minister accuses Ukraine of assassination attempt on top Russian general in Moscow
MOSCOW, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday accused Ukraine of being behind an assassination attempt on a top Russian general in Moscow, something he said was designed to sabotage peace talks.
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Death toll in Pakistan's Islamabad mosque suicide bombing rises to 31
ISLAMABAD, Feb 6 (Reuters) - At least 31 people were killed and 169 wounded in a suicide bombing at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad on Friday, a government official said.
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At least 31 killed in Islamabad Shi'ite mosque bombing, Islamic State claims responsibility
ISLAMABAD, Feb 6 (Reuters) - An attacker opened fire at the gates of a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Islamabad on Friday before setting off a suicide bomb and killing at least 31 people in the deadliest attack of its kind in Pakistan's capital in more than a decade.
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More storms coming as Leonardo swells rivers, fills aquifers in Spain and Portugal
GRAZALEMA, Spain, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Authorities in southern Spain have evacuated residential areas out of fear a major river could overflow, and warned of landslides caused by full aquifers on Friday after Storm Leonardo swept over the Iberian Peninsula.
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Russian intelligence official under Western sanctions is shot and wounded in Moscow
MOSCOW, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A top Russian military intelligence official was shot in his Moscow apartment building and rushed to hospital on Friday, investigators said, the latest in a series of assassination attempts Russia has blamed on Ukraine.
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Ukraine seeks to soften key condition for new IMF loan, Bloomberg News reports
Feb 6 (Reuters) - Ukraine is seeking to soften an unpopular tax bill demanded by the International Monetary Fund as a condition to unlock more than $8 billion under a financing programme, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Former French minister Lang summoned over Epstein links, source says
PARIS, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Pressure rose on Friday on former French culture minister Jack Lang to resign as president of the Arab World Institute over his ties to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, after the foreign ministry summoned him to discuss the matter.
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Norway's security service sees stepped-up Russian espionage in Arctic
OSLO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Russia is expected to step up spying in Norway this year, focusing increasingly on the country's Arctic mainland and the Svalbard archipelago, the Norwegian domestic security service PST said on Friday, also warning of sabotage risks.
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Grieving parents protest at Swiss handling of autopsies for bar fire victims
PULLY, Switzerland, Feb 6 (Reuters) - As the parents of 17-year-old Trystan Pidoux, who died in the bar fire at the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana, prepared to bury their son, they waited for prosecutors to act on their request for an autopsy.
