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PARIS (Reuters) -France’s interior minister said on Saturday he could not rule out foreign involvement in an attack that sabotaged signal stations and cables on the country’s high-speed rail network, causing travel chaos on the opening day of the Olympic Games. Friday’s pre-dawn attacks damaged infrastructure along the lines connecting Paris with cities such as …

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By Amy Tennery, Richa Naidu and Karolos Grohmann PARIS (Reuters) – Pouring rain in Paris on Saturday forced the men’s Olympics street skateboarding competition to be postponed and tennis matches were also delayed, while athletes had mixed feelings about how to cope with the unexpectedly wet weather. On Friday, a dazzling but soaked opening ceremony …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Emily Rose and Ramadan Abed CAIRO/JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) -At least 30 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced people in Gaza on Saturday, Palestinian health officials said, an attack that Israel said targeted militants who were using the compound. The Hamas-run government media office said 15 children and …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday it had thwarted a series of planned militant attacks in the southern region of Dagestan, state news agency RIA reported. The planned attacks were allegedly aimed at police forces and an Orthodox Christian church. FSB said it had arrested three Russian citizens in the …

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary is planning to allow the temperature limit for a section of the Danube which receives cooling water from the Paks nuclear power plant to be exceeded for security of supply reasons, the energy ministry said in a statement on Friday. The plant’s four reactors operate by using the water of the …

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