MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday that it sent more artillery to the Kursk region where Russian forces are fighting thousands of Ukrainian troops who pierced the Russian border on Aug. 6. “Additional missile and artillery weapons have been supplied to the group,” the ministry said in a statement on supplies to …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Jordan’s flag carrier Royal Jordanian suspended flights to Beirut on Sunday “due to the current situation”, the state news agency reported without giving an exact time frame for the suspension. Officials told Reuters there was no disruption to Jordanian airspace. Lebanon’s Iran-aligned Hezbollah movement launched hundreds of rockets and drones against Israel …
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(Reuters) -Five civilians died and 12 others were injured after Ukraine shelled the town of Rakitnoye in Russia’s Belgorod region, the governor of the region in the country’s southwest said on Sunday. Among the injured are three children, Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod region that borders Ukraine, said on the Telegram messaging app. Nine …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and James Mackenzie CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Gaza ceasefire and hostage negotiators discussed new compromise proposals in Cairo on Saturday, seeking to bridge gaps between Israel and Hamas, but there was no indication of progress after hours of talks. “The talks in Cairo didn’t make any progress. Israel is insisting to keep eight positions …
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By Matthias Inverardi, Petra Wischgoll and Tom Sims SOLINGEN, Germany (Reuters) -The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Saturday for a knife attack in the German city of Solingen that killed three people and wounded eight others. Some 24 hours after the attack, police said they made a second arrest on Saturday evening as part …
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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two NASA astronauts who flew to the International Space Station in June aboard Boeing’s faulty Starliner capsule will need to return to Earth on a SpaceX vehicle early next year, NASA officials said on Saturday, deeming issues with Starliner’s propulsion system too risky to carry its first crew home as …
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By Tom Balmforth and Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy touted a newly developed Ukrainian “drone missile” on Saturday that he said would take the war back to Russia and scornfully derided Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a “sick old man from Red Square”. As Ukraine marked 33 years of post-Soviet independence, Zelenskiy said the …
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By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI/MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) – Russia and Ukraine exchanged 115 prisoners of war from each side on Saturday after the United Arab Emirates acted as an intermediary. It is the first such exchange since Ukraine launched a surprise attack into Russia’s Kursk region on Aug. 6, the biggest attack inside Russian territory by a …
(Reuters) -The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Saturday for a knife attack in the western German city of Solingen that killed three people on Friday. The militant group said in a statement on its Telegram account that the attack was carried out by one of its members “in revenge for Muslims in Palestine and …
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By Matthias Inverardi SOLINGEN, Germany (Reuters) – For the German city of Solingen, the evening began as a festival of diversity and ended after a bloody knife attack that left shocked and grieving residents asking why they had been singled out for such horror. An improvised memorial near the scene where three people were killed …
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