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Russian attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia damages oncology ward, kills four

7 Nov 2024

(Reuters) -A Russian guided bomb attack on Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia on Thursday killed four people and wounded 33, destroying houses and damaging an oncology centre, officials said. A four-month-old girl and two boys, aged one and 10, were among the wounded, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said on the Telegram messaging app. Two people …

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Germany’s Ukraine support for 2025 is safe despite coalition break-up, sources say

7 Nov 2024

By Maria Martinez and Holger Hansen BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany will be able to provide most of the 4 billion euros ($4.3 billion) pledged to Ukraine even if the 2025 budget cannot be approved on time following the collapse of the coalition government, sources from the budget committee told Reuters. The funds are largely committed appropriations …

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Belarus’s Lukashenko pardons 31 people convicted over ‘extremism’, state media says

7 Nov 2024

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 31 more people convicted of crimes related to “extremism”, state news agency Belta said on Thursday. Belta cited Lukashenko’s press service as saying that among those pardoned were two women and 29 men. (Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Maxim Rodionov; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)

Zelenskiy tells European summit ‘peace through strength’ is needed now

7 Nov 2024

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday called on European leaders to apply an approach of “peace through strength” to confront the threat posed by Russia. Zelenskiy’s appeal comes a day after Donald Trump won another term in the White House, bringing uncertainty about Washington’s future policy after he had criticized the scale …

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Israeli strike destroys Ottoman-era building near Baalbek ruins

7 Nov 2024

BAALBEK, Lebanon (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike has destroyed an Ottoman-era building just a stone’s throw from the UNESCO-listed temples of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, the closest Israel has come yet to striking one of Lebanon’s most treasured archaeological sites. Heaps of grey masonry and twisted metal lay on Thursday next to a burnt-out bus …

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Polish police enter broadcaster Polsat’s offices in licensing probe

7 Nov 2024

WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish anti-corruption police secured documents from the headquarters of broadcaster Polsat on Thursday, a Polsat spokesperson said, amid an investigation into the licensing of sport broadcasting rights by state-run TVP. “There are ongoing activities to secure documents in an investigation… into actions taken to the detriment of TVP, including in connection with granting …

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Tusk says Poland will work on strengthening relations with US

7 Nov 2024

WARSAW (Reuters) – Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday Poland would work on strengthening its relations with the United States following Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election. Tusk was speaking to reporters before leaving for an EU summit in Budapest over Thursday and Friday at which Trump’s return to power and the collapse …

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With Trump win, Democrats ask anxious questions about their neighbors, country, party leadership

7 Nov 2024

By Timothy Aeppel, Andrea Shalal, Helen Coster and Tim Reid MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – In anxious conversations across the U.S. on Wednesday, many Democrats were struggling to understand what led their neighbors to vote Republican Donald Trump back into the White House. Some feared that Tuesday’s presidential election showed that their values – left-leaning, socially liberal …

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Diamond necklace possibly linked to Marie Antoinette’s demise up for auction

7 Nov 2024

By Cecile Mantovani and Denis Balibouse GENEVA (Reuters) – A diamond-studded necklace thought to be involved in a scandal that led to the eventual downfall of the last queen of France, Marie Antoinette, is being sold in Geneva next week. The Georgian-era piece containing 300 carats of diamonds being sold by a Asian private collector …

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EU lawmakers in talks to further weaken deforestation law, document shows

7 Nov 2024

By Kate Abnett and Maytaal Angel BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) – Centre-right lawmakers in the European Parliament have made proposals to further weaken the European Union’s beleaguered law to ban commodity imports linked to deforestation, a document seen by Reuters showed. In its current form, the landmark law would from Dec. 30 require companies importing soy, beef, …

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