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(Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will go into hospital to have his prostate removed on Sunday after he was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection resulting from a benign prostate enlargement, his office said. (Reporting by Maytaal Angel; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

(Reuters) – Iran, bracing for a possible re-imposition of incoming U.S. president Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” policy, said on Saturday that 2025 would be an important year for its nuclear issue. Trump in 2018 reneged on a deal struck by his predecessor Barack Obama in 2015 in which Iran agreed to curb uranium enrichment, which …

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MILAN (Reuters) – The case of an Italian journalist being held in Iran is “complicated”, but Rome hopes to bring 29-year-old Cecilia Sala home quickly, Italy’s foreign minister said on Saturday. Sala, 29, who works for the newspaper Il Foglio and the podcast company Chora Media, was detained in Tehran on Dec. 19 but her …

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By Max Hunder (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico on Saturday of opening a “second energy front” against Ukraine on the orders of Russia, as a gas transit dispute between the countries deepened. Ukraine pumps Russian natural gas through its territory to several European countries including Slovakia, but it …

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ROME (Reuters) – The Italian Senate on Saturday passed the government’s deficit-cutting 2025 budget, giving parliament’s final approval to the package which becomes law just ahead of an end-year deadline. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s third budget aims to lower next year’s fiscal deficit to 3.3% of gross domestic product (GDP) from a targeted 3.8% in …

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MILAN (Reuters) – Hackers targeted around ten official websites in Italy on Saturday, including the websites of the Foreign Ministry and Milan’s two airports, putting them out of action temporarily, the country’s cyber security agency said. The pro-Russian hacker group Noname057(16) claimed the cyber attack on Telegram, saying Italy’s “Russophobes get a well deserved cyber …

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OSLO (Reuters) – Finnish authorities said on Saturday they are moving an impounded tanker closer to port after boarding the vessel carrying Russian oil earlier this week on suspicion it had damaged an undersea power line and four telecoms cables. Baltic Sea nations have been on high alert after a string of outages of power …

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