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(Reuters) - Over 939,000 homes and businesses in Texas, Kentucky and other states were without power on Tuesday as storms continued to batter the region since the long Memorial Day holiday weekend, according to meteorologists and data from PowerOutage.us.

That is up from around 754,000 customer outages earlier on Tuesday.

Tornado-spawning thunderstorms that swept the Southern Plains and the Ozark Mountains killed at least 21 people across... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday sanctioned three Chinese individuals and three Thai companies for involvement in a cybercrime network that it said made bomb threats and fraudulent applications for COVID-related aid, costing the government billions of dollars.

The individuals and the Thai-based companies were sanctioned for activities related to 911 S5 botnet, a service that compromised computers and resulted in cybercrimes being traced back... (continue reading...)

By Ahmed Kingimi

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Religious leaders and a state lawmaker suspended their plans for a mass wedding of 100 girls and young women in northwest Nigeria after it sparked outrage, but some were married in private ceremonies, the state assembly speaker and one of the girls said on Tuesday.

The wedding plans in largely Muslim Niger state had drawn criticism from women's affairs minister Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye and a... (continue reading...)

By Humeyra Pamuk

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States expressed deep concern to Israel's government over an airstrike in Rafah and urged an investigation as soon as it saw reports of the incident, the State Department said on Tuesday, adding that Washington will closely watch the results of Israel's probe.

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters that the military operations that Israel has so far conducted in Rafah... (continue reading...)

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's center-left Labour party elected as its new leader Yair Golan, a former general who won widespread acclaim for rescuing people during the Oct 7 Hamas attack, the party said on Tuesday.

Golan, a military reservist who formerly served as a member of parliament for the left-wing Meretz party, won 95% of the party vote.

He was hailed as a hero in Israel after he rushed on his own initiative to the area around... (continue reading...)