By Yomna Ehab and Jaidaa Taha CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas named its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as successor to former political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran last week, the group said on Tuesday, in a move that reinforces the radical path pursued since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Sinwar, the architect of …
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By Nandita Bose and Jeff Mason PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her newly selected vice presidential running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, campaigned for the first time together on Tuesday in Philadelphia, kicking off a multi-day tour of battleground states aimed at introducing Walz to the national stage. In his remarks …
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(Reuters) – A drone launched by Ukraine hit an ambulance near the town of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region, killing the driver and a paramedic, the acting governor of the southwestern region said on Wednesday. Alexei Smirnov, the acting governor, said in a post on the Telegram messaging app that a doctor was also wounded. …
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s defence ministry said on Tuesday that Ukraine had launched an attack into Russia’s southern Kursk region, but Moscow’s forces had responded and the region’s acting governor described the situation on the border as “controllable”. Russian reports earlier noted the incursion and said it had moved in reserves to help repel hundreds of …
By Timour Azhari and Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Reuters) -The leader of Hezbollah on Tuesday pledged a “strong and effective” response to the killing of its military commander by Israel last week no matter the consequences and said Hezbollah would act either alone or with its regional allies. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah would wait for …
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By Samia Nakhoul DUBAI (Reuters) – Yahya Sinwar, named leader of Hamas on Tuesday, masterminded the bloodiest attack on Jews in a single day since the Holocaust, having made no secret of his desire to strike hard at Israel, the country that imprisoned him for almost half his adult life. In December 2022, the militant …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The chief of Russia’s general staff, Valery Gerasimov, has inspected Russian forces in the combat zone in Ukraine, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry said Gerasimov heard reports from commanders and “set tasks for further actions”. It did not say exactly where and when the visit took place. Gerasimov has …
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(Reuters) -Israeli forces killed at least four people in the volatile city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, medics said on Tuesday, following a night of violence in which four others were killed in clashes near Tubas, close to the border with Jordan. The Israeli military said it conducted two separate air strikes in …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s air defence shot down two Iskander-M or KN-23 ballistic missiles, two cruise Kh-59 cruise missiles and 15 attack drones that Russia launched overnight, it said on Tuesday on the Telegram messaging app. Several explosions rang out in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv late on Monday, Reuters witnesses said, after an air raid …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Several U.S. personnel were injured in an attack against a military base in Iraq on Monday, three U.S. officials told Reuters, as concerns in the region mounted following last week’s killing of senior members of militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah. The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the suspected rocket attack …
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