(Reuters) - Cloud cover and rain showers over the next few days are set to help crews battling a large wildfire near the Canadian oil sands city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, local authorities said on Friday.
Overnight, the fire stayed about 5.5 km (3.4 miles) from the landfill on the city's southern outskirts where crews are continuing to build a containment line.
The municipal authority of Wood Buffalo, which includes Fort McMurray, said... (continue reading...)
By David Lawder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will push fellow G7 finance officials next week to agree to a plan to bring forward the interest earnings on frozen Russian assets to provide more money to Ukraine quickly, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Friday.
The official told reporters ahead of Yellen's May 21-25 trip to Frankfurt, Germany, and the Group of Seven finance ministers and central bank... (continue reading...)
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Brooklyn man who ran a business named for a fake company from the TV show "Seinfeld" to swindle $1.34 million from real estate and cryptocurrency investors, leaving some victims with nothing, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday.
Thomas John Sfraga allegedly told victims from 2019 to 2022 that he could generate healthy double-digit returns by renovating and reselling... (continue reading...)
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces rescued the bodies of three hostages from the Gaza Strip, chief military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on Friday.
Hagari identified the hostages as Shani Louk, Amit Buskila and Itzhak Gelerenter, who he said were killed by Hamas at the Nova music festival and their bodies taken into Gaza.
(Reporting by Henriette Chacar; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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HANDLOVA, Slovakia/BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovak opposition party leader Michal Simecka, who described an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Robert Fico this week as an attack on democracy, said on Friday he that his wife and child had received death threats.
His experience is not uncommon, a measure of the extreme political and personal animosities in Slovakia and across Europe that... (continue reading...)
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