By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Hatem Khaled CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -A Gaza family sat weeping on Saturday over children killed by an Israeli strike as they were getting ready to play soccer, amid an intensified bombardment that Palestinian health authorities said has killed 44 people over the past 24 hours. The strike was in Mawasi, a southern …
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By Charlotte Van Campenhout and Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof will miss the COP29 climate summit after clashes in Amsterdam this week between Israeli soccer fans and pro-Palestinian protesters as his government investigates if warning signs from Israel were missed. “I will not be going to Azerbaijan next week for …
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(This Nov. 8 story has been refiled to add a dropped word in paragraph 9) By Anthony Deutsch and Bart H. Meijer AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Amsterdam banned demonstrations for three days from Friday after overnight attacks on Israeli soccer supporters by what the mayor called “antisemitic hit-and-run squads”, and Israel sent planes to the Netherlands …
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(This story has been refiled to fix a typo in paragraph 1) PAIPORTA, Spain (Reuters) – The water was already knee-high on the ground floor of the hotel where Aitana Puchal had taken refuge when she received a text alert from the regional government of Valencia at 8 pm on Oct. 29 warning people to …
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By Alexandros Avramidis THERMAIC GULF, Greece (Reuters) – When Anastasios Zakalkas pulled up the ropes of his mussel farm in the Aegean Sea last month, the devastation was clear: the lines were not heaving with molluscs as they should be at harvest time but were instead filled with cracked, empty shells. It is the second …
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ROME (Reuters) – Tourists and locals will be able to see Rome’s Trevi Fountain from a new angle by walking across a footbridge erected while it undergoes maintenance work. The metal bridge, which will give visitors a closer look at the fountain’s intricate facade, will be up for about two months while work is in …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – A local politician in northern Germany who posted a picture of a sex doll with a St Pauli T-shirt and a noose around its neck has stepped down following a wave of criticism. The posting by Bulent Buyukbayram, a member of the Christian Democrats in the city of Delmenhorst, also showed the …
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By Luiza Ilie SINDRILITA, Romania (Reuters) – On a crisp morning in early November, Romanian veterinarian Oana Vasiliu arrived at the Sindrilita village school with her teaching assistants in tow: a rescue hen named Rodica and a duck called Bubbles. Soon, the two animals were strolling down the aisles past yellow-trimmed desks in a fifth-grade …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will meet France’s president, Britain’s prime minister, the head of NATO, and leaders of Nordic and Baltic states soon to discuss transatlantic cooperation and the war in Ukraine, he said on Saturday. The future of aid to Ukraine is among the major questions facing the European Union …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Russian drones attacked Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa overnight, killing one person and injuring 13 others, including two boys, regional governor Oleh Kiper said on Saturday. Several residential apartment buildings, private houses, commercial buildings and dozens of private cars were damaged in what was the second day in a row of Russian …
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