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LONDON (Reuters) - British foreign minister David Cameron said on Tuesday an investigation by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) into the Rafah air strikes must be "swift, comprehensive and transparent", again calling for a pause in fighting.

"Deeply distressing scenes following the air strikes in Rafah this weekend. The IDF's investigation must be swift, comprehensive and transparent," Cameron said on X.

"We urgently need a deal to get... (continue reading...)

ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's upper house of parliament has backed a motion to toughen measures to expel spies, taking particular aim at Russian intelligence agents as Bern prepares to host a major summit aimed at paving the way for peace in Ukraine.

Voting 32 in favour and nine against late on Monday, upper house legislators supported the motion entitled "systematically expel Russian spies and other foreign spies" that was backed by President Viola... (continue reading...)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Apple saw its iPhone sales jump 52% in April from a year earlier, Reuters calculations based on industry data showed on Tuesday.

Overall smartphone sales in China increased by 25.5% to 22.7 million units, data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) showed.

(Reporting by Beijing newsroom; editing by Jason Neely)

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany granted citizenship to a record number of people last year, due largely to a jump in the number of Syrians who qualified for a passport after fleeing their country around a decade ago, the Federal Statistics Office said on Tuesday.

Overall, some 200,100 foreigners were naturalised last year, a 19% rise from the previous year and the highest level since records started in 2000.

Around 38% of those people came... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari said in an interview with CNBC broadcast on Tuesday that the U.S. central bank should wait for significant progress on inflation before cutting interest rates.

"Many more months of positive inflation data, I think, to give me confidence that it’s appropriate to dial back," Kashkari told CNBC in an interview when asked about the conditions that are needed for the Federal Reserve to... (continue reading...)