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PARIS (Reuters) – French police have opened an investigation into death threats received by three Israeli athletes at the Paris Olympic Games, the Paris’ prosecutors office said on Sunday. Anti-cybercrime officers are also investigating the release of athletes’ personal data on social networks on Friday and seeking to have it removed, prosecutors said in a …

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PARIS (Reuters) -France suspects members of far-left groups were behind the sabotage of the country’s high-speed rail network last week just as the Olympic Games were about to begin, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday. Saboteurs struck the network on Friday with pre-dawn attacks on signal substations and cables at critical points, causing travel …

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PARIS (Reuters) – A far-left activist has been arrested in connection with the sabotage attack on France’s high-speed rail network last Friday, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday. It is the first publicly announced arrest made since the sabotage attack, which took place on Friday hours before the Olympic Games opening ceremony got underway. …

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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares on Monday morning asked Venezuela to release broken down and verifiable voting data after the national electoral council announced President Nicolas Maduro had won a third term in office, contradicting several exit polls. Albares followed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Chilean President Gabriel Boric, and …

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By Volodymyr Pavlov KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) – Former car thief Bohdan Filonenko had a simple response for fellow inmates who criticized his decision to join Ukraine’s military. “I’m not going off to die,” he recalled telling them. “I’m going to serve and change my life.” Filonenko, 32, is among thousands of Ukrainian prisoners who …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ support for Israel’s security is “ironclad,” her national security adviser Phil Gordon said on Sunday, adding that she has been briefed and is closely monitoring a rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. “The Vice President has been briefed and is closely monitoring …

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By Layli Foroudi PARIS (Reuters) -There were boos, and mixed feelings amongst the crowd, as Netherlands beach volleyball player Steven van de Velde, a convicted rapist, made his Paris 2024 debut for a game in bright sunshine at the feet of the Eiffel tower on Sunday. His team, however, were unapologetic about van de Velde …

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