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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale of up to 600 Patriot air defense missiles to NATO ally Germany for an estimated cost of $5 billion, the Pentagon said on Thursday. “The proposed sale will improve Germany’s capability to meet current and future threats and increase the defensive capabilities of …

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By Fatos Bytyci PREVALLE, Kosovo (Reuters) – As firefighters in southern Kosovo prayed for rain in their battle against wildfires in the Sharr Mountains National Park, a young man on a motor-bike approached them and said: “I am here to help.” Allmedin Smaili, 26, a dentist from the nearby town of Prizren, has been helping …

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By Andrew Mills and Nidal al-Mughrabi DOHA/CAIRO (Reuters) -A new round of Gaza ceasefire talks was under way in the Qatari capital Doha on Thursday, officials said, with Israel’s spy chief joining his U.S. and Egyptian counterparts and Qatar’s prime minister for the closed-door meeting. Separately, Gaza health officials reported that the death toll in …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian special forces captured a group of more than 100 Russian soldiers on Wednesday during Kyiv’s cross-border incursion into the western Russian region of Kursk, head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Vasyl Maliuk said on Thursday. “We conducted a sophisticated operation, as a result of which 102 Russians were captured. We …

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(Refiles to remove extraneous RIC, no change for text) MADRID (Reuters) -Mounir Nasraoui, the father of Barcelona and Spain star winger Lamine Yamal, is in a ‘serious but stable’ condition after being stabbed late on Wednesday in a car park in the northeastern Spanish town of Mataro, Spanish national TV broadcaster TVE reported. The regional …

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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak denied his country’s involvement in explosions which damaged the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and instead pointed the finger at Russia in comments to Reuters on Thursday. “Such an act can only be carried out with extensive technical and financial resources … and who …

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By Lewis Jackson and Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Kim Dotcom, who is facing criminal charges relating to the defunct file-sharing website Megaupload, will be extradited to the United States from New Zealand, the New Zealand justice minister said on Thursday. German-born Dotcom, who has New Zealand residency, has been fighting extradition to the United …

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BERLIN (Reuters) -Two German airports temporarily suspended flights on Thursday morning after climate activists breached their airfields as part of a larger protest action targeting four airports nationwide. The Last Generation campaign group said in a statement that eight activists had stopped or reduced traffic at the Berlin, Cologne-Bonn, Nuremberg and Stuttgart airports and published …

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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia began evacuating thousands more people from its border regions on Thursday after Ukraine said it was advancing deeper into the country in a lightning incursion aimed at forcing Moscow to slow its advance along the rest of the front. The biggest foreign attack on sovereign Russian territory since …

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