By Helen Reid PARIS (Reuters) – Briton Keely Hodgkinson asserted her authority in the Olympic 800 metres semi-finals on Sunday, decisively winning her heat and setting up a battle for gold with Kenya’s Mary Moraa and Ethiopia’s Tsige Duguma. World number one Hodgkinson led the pack from the start with Prudence Sekgodiso on her shoulder, …
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(Reuters) – Ukrainian attacks injured 14 people, including several at a market, in the Russian-held town of Oleshky in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, a Russia-appointed official said on Sunday. In Luhansk, a Russian-held city in northeastern Ukraine, the Russia-appointed governor said Ukrainian forces fired 12 rockets at various targets, eight of which were intercepted. Governor …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -An Israeli airstrike hit two schools in Gaza City on Sunday, killing at least 30 people, Palestinian officials said, while the Israeli military said it struck a Hamas military compound embedded in the schools. An Israeli airstrike hit a tent camp inside a hospital in central Gaza earlier in the …
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MILAN (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies called on all parties involved in the current conflict in the Middle East to avoid actions that could lead to an escalation, Italy’s foreign minister said on Sunday. During a videoconference chaired by Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, the G7 ministers expressed …
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MILAN (Reuters) – Two migrants died and one was still missing after a boat carrying more than 30 people sank around 17 miles south-east of the Italian city of Syracuse, Sicily, the Italian coast guard said on Sunday. After receiving a distress call late on Saturday, a coast guard boat and an aircraft went to …
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(Reuters) – France has invited French citizens in Lebanon to leave the country due to a risk of military escalation in the Middle East, the foreign ministry said on Sunday in a travel advisory. The French foreign ministry reiterated that it advised French citizens against travelling to Lebanon. (Reporting by Chandni Shah in Bengaluru; Editing …
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KYIV – Ukraine’s human rights commissioner urged the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations to investigate an image widely shared online on Saturday that he said likely showed a Ukrainian prisoner-of-war killed and dismembered by Russian forces. Ukraine’s prosecutor general said separately that an urgent investigation had been launched into …
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By Enas Alashray and Adam Makary CAIRO (Reuters) -A merchant vessel was hit by a missile 125 nautical miles east of Yemen’s port of Aden, but “no fires, water ingress, or oil leaks were observed,” and the vessel is proceeding to its next port of call, British maritime agency UKMTO and British security firm Ambrey …
By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican said on Saturday it had been saddened by a skit at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony appearing to parody Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” painting. “The Holy See was saddened by certain scenes at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games and cannot but …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Hamas, the group that runs the Gaza Strip, issued a statement on Saturday saying that it has initiated a broad consultation process to select a new leader of its movement following the assassination of its former leader Ismail Haniyeh. (Reporting by Adam Makary and Enas Alashray; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
