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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Officers of Russia's FSB state security service have killed a Ukrainian saboteur planning to attack a fuel terminal in the northwesterly Leningrad region with explosives, the FSB said on Friday, according to the Interfax news agency.

The FSB said the man was a Russian national recruited by Ukraine's military intelligence, and that he had been killed after shooting at security agents. It said he had entered Russia from Lithuania in... (continue reading...)

DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militia, which has disrupted global shipping to display its support for Palestinians in the Gaza conflict, is now offering a place for students suspended from U.S. universities after staging anti-Israeli protests.

Students have rallied or set up tents at dozens of campuses in the United States in recent days to protest against Israel's war in Gaza, now in its seventh month.

Demonstrators have... (continue reading...)

By Trevor Hunnicutt

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A winner of seven Olympic gold medals, a leader of the Mississippi civil rights struggle and a pioneer of television's tabloid talk show genre are part of this year's class of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.

U.S. President Joe Biden will extend the highest U.S. civilian award to 19 people, including Team USA swimmer Katie Ledecky, the assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers and... (continue reading...)

By Ted Hesson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's administration will allow certain immigrants illegally brought to the U.S. as children greater access to federally run health insurance, the White House said on Friday, addressing a sensitive issue ahead of elections in November.

With the move, an estimated 100,000 previously uninsured participants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, are expected... (continue reading...)

By Aleksandar Vasovic and Fatos Bytyci

TETOVO, North Macedonia (Reuters) - Ekrem Ramadani used to work in the once flourishing textile industry in the town of Tetovo in North Macedonia. Today, 76 and still working, he scrapes by selling beans, onions and garlic from his modest farm.

He has watched Tetovo, set in a lush valley west of the capital Skopje, slowly decline following Yugoslavia's collapse in 1991 and then as hopes of joining... (continue reading...)