Motor racing-McLaren's Piastri not giving up on taking title from third on grid
By Abhishek Takle ABU DHABI, Dec 6 (Reuters) - McLaren's Oscar Piastri still hopes he can become Australia's first Formula One champion in 45 years despite qualifying third and behind his two title rivals for Sunday's deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The...
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Merz and Macron to discuss fate of FCAS fighter jet, industry source says
BERLIN, Dec 6 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron are planning to discuss the fate of the troubled Franco-German fighter jet project FCAS - or SCAF - in the week of December 15, an industry source told Reut...
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Honduran election still too close to call as vote counting enters seventh day
By Laura Garcia TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 6 (Reuters) - In Honduras, Nasry Asfura, the conservative presidential candidate backed by U.S. President Donald Trump, maintained a razor-thin lead on Saturday as counting stretched into its seventh day and the race re...
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Lithuania's Vilnius airport reopen after airspace disruption
VILNIUS, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Lithuania's Vilnius airport resumed operations after balloons had forced it to close its airspace earlier, it said on Saturday, the latest in a series of interruptions of the Baltic nation's air traffic in recent months. Air ...
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Zelenskiy says he had "substantive" phone call with U.S. special envoy Witkoff
KYIV, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that he had had a long and "substantive" phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. "Ukraine is determ...
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Tunisians step up protests against Saied's crackdown on opposition
By Tarek Amara TUNIS, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Tunisians took to the streets on Saturday for a third straight week to protest against President Kais Saied's expanding crackdown on the opposition, critics and NGOs, urging the release of political prisoners. Pr...
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France's Macron to meet Zelenskiy, Starmer and Merz in London on Monday
PARIS, Dec 6 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said he would travel to London on Monday to meet Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy as well as the British and German leaders, to discuss the situation in Ukraine and ongoing negotiations...
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Indian, US investigators to meet next week on Air India crash, Bloomberg News reports
Dec 6 (Reuters) - India will send investigators to the U.S. next week to review data gathered on the deadly Air India flight crash in June with the National Transportation Safety Board, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday. Indian investigators plan to ...
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Regeneron's experimental therapy combo effective in untreated cancer patients
Dec 6 (Reuters) - Regeneron said on Saturday its experimental cancer combination therapy was effective and showed disappearance of the disease in previously untreated patients with a type of blood cancer in the first part of a late-stage trial. The tri...
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China warns foreign media in Hong Kong over fire coverage
By James Pomfret HONG KONG, Dec 6 (Reuters) - China's national security office in Hong Kong warned foreign media on Saturday not to spread "false information" or "smear" government efforts to deal with the city's worst fire in nearly 80 years. Ahead of...
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