JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinian villagers, activists and journalists on Saturday who had gathered during an attempt to harvest olives near a settler outpost in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, witnesses said. Two Reuters employees – a journalist and a security adviser accompanying her – were among those injured in the attack …
BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary has secured an agreement with Washington on a “financial shield” to protect its economy and public finances, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said after talks with U.S. President Donald Trump. Orban, a long-time Trump ally, met with the president at the White House on Friday to press for a reprieve from U.S. sanctions …
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(Refiles to spell name of head of Gulf Research Center in paragraph 31 as Abdulaziz Sager) By Samia Nakhoul DUBAI (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has been talking up the prospects of Saudi Arabia agreeing to normalise ties with Israel, but it is unlikely to happen when Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visits the …
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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said John Coale, who helped negotiate the release of prisoners from Belarus, was his choice for special envoy to Minsk and would press for the release of more detainees. Trump has increased U.S. engagement with the authoritarian state, sending multiple delegations to Minsk this year. Belarus President Alexander …
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By Helen Coster and James Oliphant NEW YORK (Reuters) -Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York’s next mayor exposed a deepening rift between traditional Democratic Jewish voters and younger progressives — one that could reshape politics for years in the metropolitan area with the world’s largest Jewish population outside Israel. Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, handily …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Electricity supply in the city of Taganrog in southern Russia has been fully restored, local authorities said on Sunday. Some parts of the city in the Rostov region were left without power for several hours due to an emergency shutdown of a high-voltage line. The authorities did not say what had caused the …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) -Hamas fighters holed up in the Israeli-held Rafah area of Gaza will not surrender to Israel, the group’s armed wing said on Sunday, urging mediators to find a solution to a crisis that threatens the month-old ceasefire. Sources close to mediation efforts told Reuters on Thursday that fighters could surrender …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Anton Kolodyazhnyy MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday that he was ready to meet U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio but that Russia would not abandon its core conditions for ending the Ukraine war. U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to broker an end to the Ukraine war, …
By William James BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Every year, the U.N. climate conference conjures hundreds of headlines on global efforts to spare the world from climate catastrophe. This year’s begins on Monday in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belem. But what exactly happens at these annual summits? Here’s what you need to know: WHAT IS A …
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By Jonathan Spicer ISTANBUL (Reuters) -The United States seeks to take advantage of a “moment” in Lebanon in which it can cut Iranian funding to Hezbollah and press the group to disarm, the U.S. Treasury Department’s top sanctions official said. In a late Friday interview, John Hurley, the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said …
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