By Dave Sherwood and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba’s power-grid operator said it had restored electricity to most of the capital Havana on Monday even as Tropical Storm Oscar lashed the island’s eastern end, downing trees and power lines. Strong winds raked the region as the storm stalled over land, uprooting banana plants and tearing …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – A child and three adults were killed and 24 others were wounded on Monday in an Israeli strike near the Lebanese capital Beirut’s main government hospital, the national health ministry said in a statement. Israel’s campaign in Lebanon has displaced more than 1.2 million people multiple times, according to Lebanese authorities. Israel …
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By Florion Goga TIRANA (Reuters) -Former Albanian President Ilir Meta has been detained by police over corruption allegations, his lawyer said on Monday, calling the arrest politically motivated. Meta, 55, who was president from 2017-2022 and now leads the opposition Freedom Party, was returning to capital Tirana from neighbouring Kosovo when police in black masks stopped …
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By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) – The heads of the United Nations World Food Programme and U.N. children’s agency UNICEF have privately appealed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for help “alleviating the suffering of countless civilians” in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Lebanon, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Monday. …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Hezbollah has stashed hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold in a bunker built under a hospital in Beirut, Israel’s military said on Monday, adding it will not strike the facility as it keeps up attacks against the group’s financial assets. Fadi Alameh, a Lebanese lawmaker with the Shi’ite Amal …
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(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday the United States was preparing an aid package worth $800 million to finance production of Ukrainian drones. Zelenskiy, in his nightly video address, said the package was in addition to a $400 million package for new arms announced during U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s visit to …
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By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) -Italy’s government on Monday passed a decree aimed at overcoming court objections to its flagship immigration plan that is aimed at deterring boat migrants by sending them to detention camps in Albania. The plan, launched last week, was immediately undermined as a Rome court said the first batch of asylum …
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By Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland ATLANTA/PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -With the U.S. presidential election just over two weeks away, Democrat Kamala Harris visited two churches on Sunday while her Republican rival, Donald Trump, visited another kind of American temple: a McDonald’s, where he again accused Harris of lying about having previously worked at the fast-food chain. …
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Moldova’s elections were not free and the results showed a “hard-to-explain” increase of votes in favour of President Maia Sandu and the European Union as the count proceeded, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday. “What we see is a mechanically hard-to-explain rate of increase in votes in favour of Sandu and in favour …
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By Nuha Sharaf, Mohammed Torokman and Ismael Khader BURIN, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian olive farmer Khitam Najjar dreams of just one season where she can gather the harvest in peace. But it’s not this year. As she and her son approached their olive groves near the village of Burin in the occupied West Bank …
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