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By Timour Azhari DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syria has foiled two separate Islamic State plots to assassinate President Ahmed al-Sharaa, two senior officials said, adding a personal dimension to the leader’s plans to join a U.S.-led coalition to fight the militant group that he has long battled. The sources, a senior Syrian security official and a senior …

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By Maya Gebeily and Maayan Lubell BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel is pressing Lebanon’s army to be more aggressive in disarming the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah by searching private homes in the south for weaponry, three Lebanese security officials and two Israeli officials have said. The demand has emerged in recent weeks and been rejected by Lebanon’s …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Monday it wanted the Ukraine war to end as soon as possible but that efforts to resolve it had stalled. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was responding to remarks on Friday by U.S. President Donald Trump, who said at a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban last Friday: “I …

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By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -Police in St. Petersburg have detained Diana Loginova, a teenage street musician already jailed twice for short stints after performing anti-Kremlin songs, as she left prison, state media and her supporters said on Monday. Loginova, 18, a vocalist in the Stoptime group, was first arrested with other band members last …

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By Elissa Darwish PARIS (Reuters) -Sebastien Lascoux was absorbed in the music when three Islamist militants burst into the Bataclan concert hall in Paris and opened fire on the crowd, killing 90 people including one of his friends. A decade on, he is still haunted by everything he saw and heard that night of November …

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(Reuters) -Russian Security Council secretary Sergei Shoigu arrived in Cairo on Sunday leading a large delegation of senior arms and nuclear officials for military talks with Egypt’s leadership, RIA news agency reported. Shoigu is due to meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s national security adviser, foreign and defence ministers, as well as other senior security …

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