Author: The Gazette
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NJ GOP gubernatorial candidate Ciattarelli plans to file defamation lawsuit against Democratic opponent
New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli announced he would file a lawsuit against Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ), his opponent in the upcoming election, for comments she made about him during Wednesday’s gubernatorial debate. Sherrill claimed during the debate, without evidence, that Ciattarelli was responsible for the deaths of thousands of adults and children while…
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Peru’s Congress removes President Boluarte as a crime wave grips the country
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Congress voted early Friday to remove deeply unpopular President Dina Boluarte from office as a crime wave grips the South American nation and quickly replaced her with 38-year-old lawyer José Jerí, the legislative body’s leader. Lawmakers had set up a debate and impeachment trial late Thursday in the 130-member unicameral…
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Japan’s ruling coalition splits, throwing Takaichi’s PM bid into doubt
By Kantaro Komiya and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) -Sanae Takaichi’s bid to become Japan’s first female prime minister was thrown into doubt on Friday when her ruling party’s junior coalition partner quit. The Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan for almost all of the postwar era, selected hardline conservative Takaichi as its new head…
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Back to the future as France’s Macron reappoints Lecornu as PM
By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron reappointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister on Friday just days after he quit the job, a move that enraged some of the president’s fiercest political opponents who pledged to vote out the new government. Macron, 47, will hope loyalist Lecornu can draw enough support from a…
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Kremlin says it would support Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia would back U.S. President Donald Trump’s candidature for the Nobel Peace Prize, state news agency TASS quoted Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov as saying on Friday. The winner of the 2025 prize will be announced at 0900 GMT, but experienced watchers of the award say it is highly unlikely to be Trump. Russia…
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Peru’s Boluarte rose from vice president to embattled leader
By Alexander Villegas BOGOTA (Reuters) -Peruvian President Dina Boluarte’s tenure was marked by turmoil from the moment she assumed power, but the unpopular leader was able to hang on for years until she was removed from office y Congress in the early hours of Friday. Boluarte, a 63-year-old mother of two from a village in…
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Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of air attacks; Islamabad warns of action against militants
By Saeed Shah ISLAMABAD/KABUL/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Afghanistan’s Taliban government accused Pakistan on Friday of carrying out airstrikes on its territory and warned of “consequences” as Islamabad said it was taking action against militants. Eleven more Pakistani soldiers were killed on Friday in a clash with Islamist militants in the Tirah area close to the Afghan…
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Peru Congress votes to remove President Boluarte
(Corrects to say removed, not impeached, in headline and paragraph 1) LIMA (Reuters) -Peru’s Congress voted on Friday to remove President Dina Boluarte, among the world’s most unpopular leaders, in a late-night session called hours after political parties from across the spectrum called for her removal. Lawmakers voted to debate her removal from office on…
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Factbox-What are the latest sticking points in US-China tensions?
By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) -Beijing is stacking up its bargaining chips ahead of expected U.S.-China talks when Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping visit South Korea’s Gyeongju, announcing new export controls to tighten its grip over high-tech manufacturing supply chains. The two superpowers look to be struggling to move beyond their current tariff truce…
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Analysis-Gold’s record run creates new rulebooks for investors
By Lucy Raitano, Naomi Rovnick and Amanda Cooper LONDON (Reuters) -Investors are testing well-established views about gold, which is surging to new records, as an AI-driven stocks rally and red-hot bitcoin force a rethink of what’s driving one of the world’s oldest asset classes. Gold topped $4,000 an ounce for the first time this week…