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LONDON (Reuters) - Prince Harry cannot amend his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid newspapers to include allegations involving his wife Meghan nor claims against the media mogul himself, London's High Court said on Tuesday.

The prince and more than 40 others are suing News Group Newspapers (NGN) over accusations of unlawful activities by journalists and private investigators, for the Sun and the now-defunct News of the World, from the... (continue reading...)

KALAMATA (Reuters) - Charges against nine Egyptian men accused over a 2023 migrant boat disaster off Greece were dropped on Tuesday, after a Greek court said it had no jurisdiction to hear the case as the shipwreck happened in international waters.

The men, aged between 21 and 41, were arrested hours after the boat sank and have remained in pre-trial detention since on charges of migrant smuggling, causing a shipwreck and participating in a criminal... (continue reading...)

LONDON (Reuters) - Ether was set for its largest two-day gain in nearly two years and bitcoin approached a record high on Tuesday on speculation about the outcome of applications for U.S. spot exchange-traded funds that track the world's second-biggest cryptocurrency.

Ether, which underpins the ethereum blockchain network, was 4.4% higher on the day at $3,650, after jumping 13.7% on Tuesday.

Top cryptocurrency bitcoin was last up 2% at... (continue reading...)

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

(Reuters) - Israeli forces thrust deeper into the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza on Tuesday, laying waste to residential districts with tank and air bombardments, residents said, while Israeli air strikes killed at least five people in the southern city of Rafah.

Simultaneous Israeli assaults on the northern and southern edges of the Gaza Strip this month have caused a new exodus of hundreds of thousands of people... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - Russian physicist Anatoly Maslov was convicted of treason on Tuesday and sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony, a Reuters reporter at the court said.

Maslov, 77, is one of a string of eminent Russian scientists who have been charged with treason in recent years.

He and a number of the others had conducted theoretical work in areas relevant to the development of hypersonic missiles - cutting-edge weapons capable of carrying... (continue reading...)