PARIS (Reuters) – French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shared their concern over rising frictions in the Middle East in a phone call on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “They agreed to continue calling on all parties to exercise the greatest restraint in order to prevent …
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By Max Hunder POKROVSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russian shelling of a residential area killed one person and injured two on Saturday in this strategic logistical hub in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, the regional governor said. “The Russians hit civilians on purpose and regularly,” Vadym Filashkin, the Donetsk regional governor, wrote on the Telegram messaging app. …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – At least 10 Palestinians were killed on Saturday in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced persons in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, the Hamas run-government media office said. (Reporting by Adam Makary; Editing by Gareth Jones)
By Karolos Grohmann PARIS (Reuters) -Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s double world champion Lin Yu-ting are women who have every right to compete at the Paris Olympics despite a gender dispute that has overshadowed their competitions, the International Olympic Committee president said on Saturday. The pair were cleared to compete in Paris despite being …
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(Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday revoked plea deals agreed to earlier this week with the man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two accomplices, who are held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Pentagon said on Wednesday the plea deals had been …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military said on Saturday it had attacked Russia’s Morozovsk airfield and a number of oil depots and fuel storage facilities in three Russian regions overnight. The attack on the airfield hit an ammunition depot where Russian forces stored guided aerial bombs among other equipment, the military said. “Russian combat aviation must …
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KYIV (Reuters) – A Russian drone attack overnight damaged critical infrastructure in the central Ukrainian region of Vinnytsia, a local official said on Saturday. The Ukrainian air force said it shot down 24 out of 29 Shahed-type drones launched by Russia in the overnight attack over nine regions. Russian forces also launched two S-300 anti-aircraft …
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By Andreas Kranz, Andrey Sychev and Anton Zverev BONN, Germany (Reuters) -Ilya Yashin, a Russian opposition activist freed from jail in Thursday’s prisoner swap, pledged to carry on his political fight against President Vladimir Putin from abroad, but expressed fury at having been deported against his will. The prisoner swap, the largest since the Cold …
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By Mircely Guanipa CARACAS (Reuters) – Relatives of people arrested during protests in Venezuela over the country’s contested presidential election are calling for their release outside police headquarters as political tensions in the South American country remain high. The electoral authority has declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of Sunday’s election, despite opposition insistence that …
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By Vivian Sequera and Lisandra Paraguassu CARACAS/BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil, Colombia and Mexico are pushing for Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro to meet with the opposition candidate in last week’s disputed election, a diplomatic source told Reuters on Friday, as increasing numbers of Western governments reject Maduro’s claim to victory. The trio of leftist-led Latin American countries …
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