By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) -At least 50 people were killed and 271 wounded when Russia hit a military institute in Ukraine’s central town of Poltava with two ballistic missiles on Tuesday, the war’s deadliest single attack this year. Photographs posted on social media showed several bodies of young men on the ground covered in …
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By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel does not need to keep troops in the southern Gazan border area for security reasons and should not be used as a reason to prevent a deal to bring back remaining hostages from the Gaza Strip, a longtime military veteran said on Tuesday. Benny Gantz, a former general …
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By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed three people including a 16-year-old Palestinian girl in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, as a major Israeli operation in the cities of Jenin and Tulkarm continued for a seventh day. The girl, identified as Lujain Osama Musleh, was killed in the …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Former French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, who has been a key centrist ally of President Emmanuel Macron, said in a magazine interview published on Tuesday that he himself would seek to be elected as the next president in 2027. “I will be a candidate at the next election,” Philippe told Le Point …
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By Anastasiia Malenko and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -U.N. nuclear agency chief Rafael Grossi, who is due to visit the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeast Ukraine on Wednesay, said the situation there was “very fragile” and the risk of a disaster remained. Rossi was speaking at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday …
By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) -Russia says it will make changes to the doctrine that sets out the circumstances in which it might use nuclear weapons. What might that mean? WHAT DOES RUSSIA’S EXISTING NUCLEAR DOCTRINE SAY? The current doctrine was set out by President Vladimir Putin in June 2020 in a six-page decree. It …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court sentenced physicist Alexander Shiplyuk to 15 years on treason charges on Tuesday in the latest of several cases against experts working on the science underpinning Russia’s development of hypersonic missiles, Russian news agencies said. Shiplyuk, the 57-year-old director of a top Siberian science institute, was arrested in August 2022. …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization in Gaza said on Tuesday that it is ahead of its targets for polio vaccinations in Gaza on day three of the mass campaign. Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the Occupied Palestinian territories, told reporters that it had vaccinated over 161,000 children under 10 in the central area …
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KYIV (Reuters) -An eight-year-old boy was among two people killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region overnight, while a third person died in a missile attack on the central city of Dnipro, Ukrainian officials said. Russia also attacked railways infrastructure in two regions and an energy facility in the northern region of Chernihiv, …
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By Vivian Sequera and Mayela Armas CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela’s attorney general’s office said on Monday a court has issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez, accusing him of conspiracy and other crimes amid a dispute over whether he or President Nicolas Maduro won a July election. Attorney general Tarek Saab shared a photo …
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