By Kate Abnett, Gloria Dickie and Valerie Volcovici BRUSSELS (Reuters) -World leaders from major economies including the United States, the European Union and Brazil are planning to skip this year’s United Nations climate change summit, known as COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will not attend the COP29 climate summit …
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By Rachel More BERLIN (Reuters) -German police have arrested eight suspected members of a neo-Nazi militant group driven by racist ideology and conspiracy theories who had been training in warfare for the downfall of the modern German state, prosecutors said on Tuesday. News of the arrests came amid a 450-strong police operation to dismantle the …
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) – An Israeli attack targeted an industrial zone and some residential buildings in the town of Qusayr in Homs province in central Syria on Tuesday, Syrian state TV reported. The outlet quoted the Homs province’s health director as saying there were no injuries as a result of the attack. Israel’s military later issued …
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RAMALLAH (Reuters) -At least seven people were killed on Tuesday during an Israeli military raid and airstrikes on the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. Five of the seven people were killed in two separate Israeli attacks in and near the city of Qabatiya, while the two others were killed in the Tammoun …
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By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) – An engineer at a factory that makes tanks for Russia’s war in Ukraine was jailed for 16 years on Tuesday after being convicted of committing state treason by passing military secrets to Kyiv, weeks after his wife received a similar sentence. The court in Sverdlovsk region said Danil Mukhametov, who …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -The winner of November’s U.S. presidential election will govern a nation of more than 330 million people, but the contest will almost certainly be decided by just tens of thousands of voters – a tiny fraction of the populace – in a handful of states. That’s because only seven of the …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish prosecutors have indicted two men in a case concerning cooperation with Belarusian intelligence services, they said on Tuesday, one of a string of espionage cases in the NATO member state. Warsaw says its role as a hub for supplies to Ukraine has made it a target for spies working for Russia …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A Swedish court on Tuesday found a far-right activist guilty of two counts of hate crime against Muslims over statements he made whilst burning copies of the Koran, acts that triggered riots in the Nordic country in 2022. Rasmus Paludan, the founder of a small political party, was sentenced to four months …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – At least one Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in a beach town south of Beirut on Tuesday, Lebanese state media said, as other deadly strikes hit scattered locations across the country and armed group Hezbollah launched rockets into Israel. The attack on the beach town of Jiyyeh left a massive smoke …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – A Greek court on Tuesday ordered the pre-trial detention of a 31-year-old man on terrorism-related charges over an Athens apartment blast which killed a man and hurt a woman last week, legal and police sources said. The bomb exploded as it was being made, police have said, linking the incident with anti-establishment …
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