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GLOBAL

ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/USA-PROTESTS

Columbia leadership rebuked by faculty panel for police crackdown on protesters

NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) – Columbia University’s embattled president came under renewed pressure on Friday as a campus oversight panel sharply criticized her administration for clamping down on a pro-Palestinian protest at the Ivy League school.

RUSSIA-NAVALNY/USA

U.S. intelligence believes Putin probably didn’t order Navalny to be killed – WSJ

LONDON, April 27 (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably didn’t order opposition politician Alexei Navalny killed at an Arctic prison camp in February, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

U.S.

USA-TRUMP/NEW YORK

At Trump trial, Pecker says he killed story of affair even though it cost him

NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) – Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified on Friday at Donald Trump’s criminal trial that he suppressed a story about an alleged affair to help Trump’s 2016 presidential bid, even though it would have boosted sales of his tabloid.

USA-RACE/POLICE-OHIO

‘I can’t breathe’: Black man in Ohio tells police before he died, video shows

April 26 (Reuters) – Ohio police released video of a Black man who died at a local hospital after repeatedly telling officers “I can’t breathe” as they pinned him to the floor of a bar and handcuffed him, evoking memories of the killing of George Floyd in 2020.

BUSINESS

USA-PENTAGON/DOOMSDAY AIRPLANE

US Air Force awards $13 bln Doomsday plane contract to Sierra Nevada

April 26 (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force said on Friday that it has awarded a $13 billion contract to Sierra Nevada Corp to develop a successor to the E-4B, known as the Doomsday plane due to its ability to survive a nuclear war.

TECH-ANTITRUST/GOOGLE

Google asks court to throw out US advertising case

WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s GOOGL.O Google on Friday asked a federal court in Virginia to reject a U.S. government lawsuit accusing the advertising and search giant of anticompetitive practices in the online advertising marketplace.

ENTERTAINMENT

MUSIC-STEVEN TYLER/LAWSUIT

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler wins dismissal for good of sexual assault lawsuit

NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) – A federal judge in Manhattan dismissed for good a lawsuit accusing Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler of sexually assaulting a former teenage model twice in one day in the mid-1970s

MUSIC-TAYLOR SWIFT/CHARTS

Taylor Swift beats Beatles in race to 12th UK number one album

LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) – Taylor Swift topped the British music charts on Friday with “The Tortured Poets Department”, outselling the rest of the top ten combined and beating the Beatles for the record of fastest artist to rack up 12 UK number one albums.

SPORTS

OLYMPICS-2024/FLAME SEA DEPARTURE

Olympics-Paris 2024 Olympics flame sets sail for France in final relay leg

ATHENS, April 27 (Reuters) – The Paris 2024 Olympic flame sailed for France on Saturday on board a three-masted ship to mark the final sprint of preparations ahead of the Olympic Games opening ceremony on July 26.

TENNIS-MADRID

Tennis-Nadal excited by prospect of partnering Alcaraz at Paris Olympics

April 27 (Reuters) – Rafa Nadal said it would be exciting to partner fellow Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz at the Paris Olympics this year and the 22-times singles Grand Slam champion hoped they can enter some doubles tournaments in the build-up to the Games.

UPCOMING STORIES POLITICS / INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/USA-PROTESTS-COLUMBIA (PIX) The protests of 1968 are on the minds of Columbia University students in 2024 as the mount pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Some of those at the Columbia University encampment have taken an elective class for freshmen on the 1968 protests on campus, and the professor who teaches the course has visited the 2024 demonstrators. Reuters speaks to students who have organized teach-ins and lectures at the encampment on how they see Columbia’s legacy of protest. 27 Apr 10:00 ET / 10:00 GMT

USA-WHITEHOUSE/DINNER (PIX) (TV) Biden attends White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner U.S. President Joe Biden attends White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. 27 Apr 22:30 ET / 22:30 GMT

EU-ELECTION/ITALY-MELONI (PIX)

Italy PM Meloni to run for EU elections Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is expected on Sunday to announce her candidacy for the upcoming Eu elections in June, during a party conference. 28 Apr

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