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LONDON (Reuters) – British foreign minister David Lammy said on Wednesday Britain would provide a further 600 million pounds ($781 million) of support for Ukraine as he visited Kyiv with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The British government said it would provide 242 million pounds of funding, including for humanitarian needs, and 484 million …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A spacecraft carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan late on Wednesday evening and docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft was carrying NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Russians Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. Russian news agencies, referring to …

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By Wa Lone TORONTO (Reuters) -Ukrainian diplomats and activists in Canada on Tuesday urged the Toronto International Film Festival to cancel further screenings of a documentary portraying Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine, claiming the film serves as “Russian propaganda.” “Russians At War” was filmed by Anastasia Trofimova, a Russian-Canadian director and cinematographer who spent seven …

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CAIRO (Reuters) – The Palestinian Hamas group said on Wednesday that its negotiators reiterated its readiness to implement an “immediate” ceasefire with Israel in Gaza based on a previous U.S. proposal without new conditions from any party. The Palestinian group said in a statement that their negotiation team, led by senior official Khalil al-Hayya, met …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration faced increasing pressure from both Republicans and his fellow Democrats on Wednesday to ease restrictions on how Ukraine can use weapons provided by the United States in its war against Russia. Senator Ben Cardin, the Democratic chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, noted …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A lack of accountability for the killing of United Nations staff and humanitarian aid workers in the Gaza Strip is “totally unacceptable,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Reuters in a wide-ranging interview on Wednesday. Guterres also said that establishing a U.N. peacekeeping force would not be the “best …

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By Ali Sawafta TUBAS, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed at least six Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, as troops continued an extended operation against militant groups in the territory, the military said. An airstrike in the city of Tubas killed five men the military said were armed with …

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PRISTINA (Reuters) – Albania’s main opposition leader Sali Berisha said he had been officially indicted on Wednesday on corruption charges for actions he took when he was prime minister, describing the indictment as a political vendetta. Prosecutors accused Berisha in October of using his influence as prime minister between 2005-2009 to exert pressure to conclude …

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