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By Eva Manez and David Latona PATERNA, Spain (Reuters) – Exhumations are set to end at one of Spain’s largest mass grave sites holding thousands of victims of General Francisco Franco’s fascist dictatorship after the regional coalition government that included the far-right Vox party withheld funding. Excavations at the cemetery believed to hold over 2,200 …

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By John Irish BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The EU’s foreign policy chief on Thursday appeared to criticise the United States giving Israel one month to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, saying that during that time, too many people would die. “The U.S. has been saying to Israel that they have to improve humanitarian support to …

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WARSAW (Reuters) – Two Poles suspected of attacking an exiled aide of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been released on bail from detention in Poland, a lawyer for one of them said on Thursday. The former aide, Leonid Volkov, suffered injuries from hammer blows during the attack on March 12 outside his …

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ZURICH (Reuters) – Unemployment in Gaza has soared to nearly 80% since the Israel-Hamas war erupted, with the devastated enclave’s economy in almost total collapse, the International Labour Organization said on Thursday.  Economic output has shrunk by 85% since the conflict with Israel began a year ago, plunging almost the entire 2.3 million population into …

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By Makini Brice and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) – Dominique Pelicot, the Frenchman accused of drugging his wife and recruiting dozens of strangers to rape her over nearly a decade, on Tuesday admitted the various charges he faces and begged his family’s forgiveness, French media reported.  Dominique Pelicot had been due to testify last week …

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By Deisy Buitrago and Emma Farge CARACAS/GENEVA (Reuters) -President Nicolas Maduro’s government escalated repressive tactics to crush peaceful protests and keep power after Venezuela’s disputed election in July, a U.N. report said on Tuesday. Electoral authorities awarded the vote to Maduro, without showing all tallies, but the opposition said its candidate Edmundo Gonzalez won by …

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By Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) – The two leaders of Germany’s conservatives have agreed to nominate Christian Democrat (CDU) chief Friedrich Merz to run as chancellor in next year’s federal election, party sources said on Tuesday. Markus Soeder, head of the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), will stand aside, two party …

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(Reuters) – A Russian national residing in Sarasota, Florida, was arrested on Monday on charges of smuggling, money laundering and illegally exporting to Russia technology that could be used in drone production, the U.S. Department of Justice said. The indictment alleges that following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Denis Postovoy, 44, procured and …

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By Gabriel Stargardter PARIS (Reuters) -When French prosecutors took aim at Telegram boss Pavel Durov, they had a trump card to wield – a tough new law with no international equivalent that criminalises tech titans whose platforms allow illegal products or activities. The so-called LOPMI law, enacted in January 2023, has placed France at the …

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