RAMALLAH/JERUSALEM, Dec 15 (Reuters) – The Israeli military shot dead a 16-year-old Palestinian during a raid on the town of Tuqu’ on Monday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the latest deadly incident in a recent surge of violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The boy was shot after Israeli military forces gathered in the centre …
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By Lili Bayer, Julia Payne and Anna Hirtenstein BRUSSELS, Dec 15 (Reuters) – The European Union adopted fresh sanctions against Russian oil interests on Monday, targeting traders Murtaza Lakhani and Etibar Eyyub for helping Moscow to circumvent Western sanctions on crude exports that help to fund Russia’s war in Ukraine. The EU has imposed 19 packages …
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Dec 15 (Reuters) – Germany’s lower house of parliament suffered a major email outage on Monday in what officials suspect was a cyberattack during high-stakes U.S.-Ukraine talks hosted by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the Financial Times reported on Monday. Members of parliament were unable to access their email accounts for over four hours, the newspaper reported, …
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THE HAGUE, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court on Monday rejected one in a series of legal challenges brought by Israel against the court’s probe into its conduct of the Gaza war. On appeal, judges refused to overturn a lower court decision that the prosecution’s investigation into alleged crimes under its …
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BELGRADE, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Serbia’s prosecutor on Monday filed an indictment against a minister over his role in removing the protected status as a site of cultural significance to allow for the development of a luxury compound by an investment company set up by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump. U.S.-based …
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By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Russian anti-Kremlin feminist punk band and art collective ‘Pussy Riot’ was designated an extremist organisation by a Moscow court on Monday, banning its activities inside Russia as part of a wider crackdown on dissenting voices. The ruling, announced by Moscow’s court service, was made at a closed-door …
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ROME, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Scientists in Italy are developing sweet snacks with lab-grown plant cells and fruit residues, producing a material that a 3D printer can then process into ‘pastries’ with high nutritional content. Italy’s rich culinary traditions may have just gained UNESCO heritage status, but the Nutri3D project by the country’s public research …
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PARIS, Dec 15 (Reuters) – French senators approved a 2026 budget bill on Monday that the government said would worsen the fiscal deficit by more than it had planned, setting the stage for high-stakes negotiations between both houses of parliament at the end of the week. The conservative-dominated Senate voted 187 to 109 in favour …
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PARIS, Dec 15 (Reuters) – French farmers are protesting against government measures, including the culling of entire cattle herds, aimed at containing an outbreak of lumpy skin disease among livestock in France and other parts of Europe. Here’s what you need to know about the disease, which does not affect humans, and why the latest …
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BRUSSELS, Dec 15 (Reuters) – An online briefing by U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, intended to update EU foreign ministers on President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, was cut short by technical difficulties on Monday, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said earlier on Monday that he …
