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US to monitor Ukraine truce: Macron

KYIV, May 10 (AFP): French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday the United States had committed to monitor a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine proposed by Kyiv's European allies.Macron said the ceasefire "will be monitored mainly by the United States of America, to which all Europeans will contribute," and that the truce...

Gleans data from its fighter jets, weapons used by Pakistan

BEIJING, May 10 (Reuters): The conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir offers a potentially rich intelligence harvest for China in its own rivalry with India as it gleans data from its fighter jets and other weapons used in action by Pakistan.Security analysts and diplomats say China's military modernisation has...

Israel not involved in Gaza food distribution under US aid plan

JERUSALEM, May 10 (AFP): Israel would not be involved in food distribution under a US-led plan for the Gaza Strip but would provide "necessary military security", Washington's ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, said on Friday.Despite imposing a now two-month-long blockade of aid on Gaza, which it says is aimed at...

Iran to send Russia launchers for missiles

TEHRAN, May 10 (Reuters): Iran is preparing to deliver in the near future launchers for short-range ballistic missiles that the US said Tehran sent to Russia last year for use against Ukraine, according to two Western security officials and a regional official.The delivery of the Fath-360 launchers - if it...

Trump admin mulls suspending right to challenge detention

NEW YORK, May 10 (BBC): Donald Trump's administration is "actively looking at" suspending habeas corpus - the right of a person to challenge their detention in court - one of the US president's top aides has said.Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, told reporters on Friday that...

Thousands confined indoors by toxic chlorine cloud in Spain

MADRID, May 10 (AFP): Spanish authorities told more than 160,000 people near Barcelona to stay indoors on Saturday after a fire at an industrial warehouse released a toxic cloud of chlorine over a wide area. The blaze, in the coastal city of Vilanova i la Geltru just south of Barcelona,...

US approves first at-home cervical device for cancer screening

WASHINGTON, May 10 (AFP): The US Food and Drug Administration has approved an at-home cervical cancer screening tool as an alternative to Pap smears by a gynecologist, the company behind the device said Friday.The "Teal Wand"-a self-collection vaginal swab shaped like a tampon and developed by Teal Health-will be available...