By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Hussam al-Masri CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -The United Nations, in collaboration with Palestinian health authorities, began to vaccinate 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, with Israel and Hamas agreeing to brief pauses in their 11-month-old war to allow the campaign to go ahead. The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed last month …
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By Thomas Escritt and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -The Alternative for Germany (AfD) was on track to become the first far-right party to win a regional election in Germany since World War Two, projections showed, giving it unprecedented power even if other parties are sure to exclude it from office. The AfD was set to …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called on Sunday for a strike to shut down the country’s economy in order to pressure the government to reach a deal to release the remaining hostages in the Gaza Strip. Lapid, who is also a former prime minister, called on every Israeli “whose heart was broken …
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(Reuters) -Searchers found no survivors among the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that crashed in the far eastern peninsula of Kamchatka with 22 people on board, state news agency TASS said on Sunday. The Mi-8T helicopter had taken off from a base near the Vachkazhets volcano. The Kamchatka peninsula, some 7,100 km (4,400 miles) east …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ukraine launched waves of drone attacks targeting power plants and a refinery near Moscow, sparking fires, while more than 150 drones were destroyed across other parts of the country, Russian officials said on Sunday. Drone debris caused fires at the Moscow Oil Refinery and at the Konakovo Power Station in the neighbouring Tver …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s top commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Sunday the situation was “difficult” around Russia’s main attack, which is focused in eastern Ukraine, but that all the necessary decisions were being taken. Syrskyi did not give the exact location of the main Russian offensive, but earlier both he and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -Health authorities in the Gaza Strip confirmed the first case of polio in the Palestinian enclave in 25 years in August. On Sunday, the United Nations, in collaboration with Palestinian health authorities, began vaccinating some 640,000 children. Israel and Hamas agreed to brief pauses in their 11-month war in Gaza to allow the …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A fire caused by an overnight drone attack at the Moscow Oil Refinery has been contained, the TASS state news agency reported on Sunday, citing emergency services. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said debris from several Ukrainian-launched drones targeted the Moscow refinery, sparking a fire at a “separate technical room” at the plant. …
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The bodies of six hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7 have been recovered from a tunnel in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip, the military said on Sunday. The bodies of Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, and Ori Danino were brought to Israel, it said …
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By Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) – Germans head to the polls in two eastern states on Sunday, with the far-right AfD on track to win a state election for the first time and Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition set to receive a drubbing just a year before federal elections. The Alternative for Germany is polling first …
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