(Reuters) – A Russian guided bomb attack on Friday killed two people and injured six others, including a child, in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region, local authorities said. The attack damaged residential houses and a clinic, and cut power supplies, the regional military administration said on Telegram messenger. (Reporting by Yuliia Dysa; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The body of a Turkish-American activist was received with a solemn ceremony at the airport in Istanbul on Friday, arriving a week after she was shot in the head by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank. The Istanbul governor and other officials lined up in front of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi’s coffin, …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An opinion poll on Friday showed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party would form the largest single party in parliament if an election were held now, underlining a gradual recovery since the Oct. 7 attacks last year. The poll, published in the left-wing Ma’ariv daily, showed Likud winning 24 seats, …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hamas chief Yehya Sinwar thanked the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for his group’s support in the conflict with Israel, Hezbollah said on Friday, in the first reported message since Sinwar became Hamas leader in August. The Iran-backed Hezbollah has been waging attacks on Israel for nearly a year in …
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(Reuters) – Russia’s FSB security service said on Friday it had revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats in Moscow whose actions it said showed signs of spying and sabotage work. Britain’s embassy in Moscow did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The FSB, the main successor agency to the Soviet KGB, …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France’s foreign ministry on Thursday summoned Iran’s diplomatic charge d’affaires in the country over the alleged transfer of ballistic missiles to Russia, a diplomatic source said on Friday. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said this week that Russia had received ballistic missiles from Iran and would likely use them in its …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s air force said on Friday it had shot down 24 of 26 drones launched from Russia overnight over four regions, according to a statement posted on the Telegram messaging app. Falling debris in the southern Odesa region injured one person and damaged 20 homes and four garages, according to regional governor …
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By Isabelle Yr Carlsson and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – The 20,000-piece coin collection of Danish butter magnate Lars Emil Bruun, worth an estimated $74 million, is set to go under the hammer on Saturday in Copenhagen, a century after his passing. The collection, kept by Bruun’s relatives in line with his will, includes rare …
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By Pavel Polityuk, Yuliia Dysa and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine accused Russia on Thursday of using strategic bombers to strike a civilian grain vessel in a missile attack in Black Sea waters near NATO member Romania, escalating tensions between Moscow and the military alliance. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the vessel carrying Ukrainian grain to …
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(Reuters) – Russian shelling on Thursday killed three people and injured nine in a village in northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, regional prosecutors said. A statement said one person died of his injuries in hospital after the attack on the village of Borova, southeast of Kharkiv. Kharkiv is Ukraine’s second largest city and a frequent target …
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