KYIV (Reuters) -Russia launched a New Year’s Day drone strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Wednesday, killing two people, wounding at least six others and damaging buildings in two districts, authorities said. Explosions boomed across the morning sky as Ukraine’s air force warned of incoming drones and Mayor Vitali Klitschko said air defences …
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By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The city of New Orleans had begun replacing security barriers along Bourbon Street before Wednesday’s truck attack, which killed at least 10 people and injured more than 30, and officials conceded a stop-gap security plan did not work. The suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was able to drive around a police car and …
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CHISINAU (Reuters) – Moldovan President Maia Sandu’s dog, notorious for biting the Austrian president, was safely home in the official residence on Wednesday after going missing on New Year’s Eve. Codrut, which means small forest in Moldova’s official language of Romanian, bolted during fireworks. Capital residents rallied, posting sightings of the golden-haired pet on social …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, who had often taken an independent line against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right government allies, said on Wednesday he was resigning from parliament. Gallant was fired from the government in November by Netanyahu, after months of disagreements over the conduct of the war against …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The population of Gaza has fallen 6% since the war with Israel began nearly 15 months ago as about 100,000 Palestinians left the enclave while more than 55,000 are presumed dead, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). Around 45,500 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, have …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -The Israeli military kept up the pressure on northern Gaza on Wednesday, striking in a suburb of Gaza City, medics said, and told residents in a central part of the enclave to evacuate from an area where militants were firing rockets. Air strikes in Shejaia, a suburb of Gaza City, killed at least …
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(Reuters) -Romania and Bulgaria scrapped land border controls to become full members of the European Union’s Schengen free-travel area on Wednesday, joining an expanded bloc of countries whose residents can travel without passport checks. Fireworks lit the sky at a crossing close to the Bulgarian border town of Ruse just after the stroke of midnight …
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ROME (Reuters) – Seven migrants were rescued, but at least 20 are missing after their boat sank en route to Italy from Libya, the mayor of the Italian island of Lampedusa said on Wednesday. Amongst those saved was an 8-year-old Syrian boy, hoping to join his father who lives in Germany. He was accompanied by …
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(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said late on Tuesday that no one would give peace to his country as a gift, but he believed the United States would stand alongside Kyiv as it fights to stop Russia’s 34-month invasion. Zelenskiy, in a slick 21-minute New Year video greeting to his compatriots, also said only …
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(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said late on Tuesday that no one would give peace to his country as a gift, but he believed the United States would stand alongside Kyiv as it fights to stop Russia’s 34-month invasion. Zelenskiy, in a slick 21-minute New Year video greeting to his compatriots, also said only …
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