By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose BERLIN/MILWAUKEE (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris said on Thursday that the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar set the stage for the return of Israeli hostages and an end to the war in Gaza. The killing of Sinwar, a mastermind of the Oct. 7, …
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By Jeff Mason and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Berlin on Thursday for a short visit to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with the leaders of Germany, France and Britain as Kyiv urges its Western allies to take immediate action to end the fighting. The conflict in the Middle East …
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(Reuters) – A senior Ukrainian official called on Thursday for intensified efforts to uphold nuclear safety in view of Russia’s occupation of Europe’s largest nuclear power station and its repeated strikes on the energy grid. Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, said the capture of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear station, which no longer produces …
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By Eliana Raszewski BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -One Direction pop star Liam Payne died of multiple traumas and internal bleeding after plunging from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, prosecutors said on Thursday, adding an initial search suggested the fall came after substance abuse. Payne, 31, who shot to global fame with the boy band, was …
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By Daphne Psaledakis and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States wants to kickstart talks on a proposal to achieve a ceasefire and the release of hostages in Gaza, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Thursday, after the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, which he called a “seismic event.” Miller told …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he had argued for Europe to remain open and prosperous instead of closed and poor in a European Council summit in which countries like Italy and Germany are seeking to tighten the bloc’s stance. Sanchez said in a news conference after the summit that he had …
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-Two athletes, one from Britain and the other from Mexico, died on Thursday on the first day of the Torremolinos-Andalucia Triathlon Championship Finals, both competing in the age-group sprint event, World Triathlon said. British Triathlon confirmed the death of one of its age-group team members, without revealing his identity or cause of death. The Mexican …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania scrambled four fighter jets on Thursday after a small flying object, likely a drone, breached national airspace up to 14 km inland in the southeastern county of Constanta, the defence ministry said. The European Union and NATO state, which shares a 650-km (400-mile) border with Ukraine, has had Russian drone fragments fall …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The killing of Yahya Sinwar by Israeli forces dealt a fatal blow to Hamas, France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Thursday, adding that a page must now be turned to work towards peace in Gaza and the wider region. “It’s a fatal blow that has been struck on Hamas, a terrorist …
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By Lena Masri (Reuters) -The entire Gaza Strip remains at risk of famine and is experiencing emergency levels of hunger, with intense Israeli military operations adding to concerns and hampering humanitarian access, a global monitor said on Thursday. About 1.84 million people across the besieged Palestinian enclave are living through high levels of acute food …
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