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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli military strikes killed at least 27 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Friday, medics said, as health officials resumed vaccination of tens of thousands more children in the enclave against polio. In Nuseirat, one of the territory’s eight historic refugee camps, an Israeli airstrike killed two women and two …

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By Phil Stewart and Sabine Siebold RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Western allies on Friday to ignore Moscow’s “red lines” and allow Kyiv to use long-range weapons for strikes on Russian territory, as Washington pledged another $250 million in weaponry for Kyiv. Zelenskiy made his first appearance at a …

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RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived at Ramstein Air Base in Germany and said he would push for “strong” decisions by Western allies to allow Kyiv to carry out long-range strikes into Russia and bring peace closer. After Russia pummelled Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles in recent weeks, …

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WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish prosecutors have enough evidence to charge three Belarusian citizens over the forced landing in Minsk in 2021 of a civilian airliner carrying an opposition journalist, who was then arrested, Polish authorities said on Friday. In what some EU leaders at the time called a hijacking, the Ryanair flight from Athens to …

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RAMSTEIN AIR BASE (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday urged military allies to ignore Moscow’s “red lines” and allow Kyiv to use long-range weapons for strikes on Russian territory. “We need to have these long-range capabilities not only on the … territory of Ukraine but also on the Russian territory, so that Russia …

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By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties, already at odds with coalition partners over demands to draft young religious men into the army, are again testing the unity of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government with a challenge over education funding. The latest rift centres on an ultra-Orthodox push for schools in their separate …

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RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will approve an additional $250 million in security assistance for Ukraine, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced at the start of talks on Friday in Germany. “It will surge in more capabilities to meet Ukraine’s evolving requirements. And we’ll deliver them at the speed of …

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By Julia Symmes Cobb and Vivian Sequera BOGOTA/CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Thursday she wants the United States to do “much more” to press President Nicolas Maduro amid an ongoing dispute over July’s presidential election. Democracies around the world have criticized the Venezuelan government’s handling of the July 28 vote, …

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