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(Reuters) -Ukrainian attacks triggered a fire at a factory producing electrical devices and wounded at least six people in Russian areas bordering Ukraine overnight, local governors said on Tuesday. A drone attack on a factory in the town of Korenevo in Russia’s Kursk region caused the fire which was extinguished by morning and no one …

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By Catarina Demony, Miguel Pereira and Pedro Nunes LAUNDOS, Portugal (Reuters) – Portuguese priest Guilherme Peixoto rose to fame playing electronic dance music near his church in a tiny Portuguese village. Now famous beyond borders and playing at some of the world’s best nightclubs, his goal – to spread a message of hope through music …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ramadan Abed CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Israel struck the southern and central Gaza Strip on Monday to put more pressure on Hamas, following a weekend strike targeting the militant group’s leadership, which killed scores of Palestinians who had sought shelter in a makeshift camp. Two days after the Israeli strike turned a crowded …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Hungary on Monday accused the EU Commission of cherry picking after it said it would not send its commissioners to informal meetings organised by the Hungarian EU presidency, effectively downgrading the EU executive body’s participation. The move comes after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump last …

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By Andrew Goudsward and Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters) -A U.S. judge in Florida on Monday dismissed the criminal case accusing Donald Trump of illegally keeping classified documents after leaving office, handing the Republican former president another major legal victory as he seeks a return to the White House. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was …

Judge tosses Trump documents case, ruling prosecutor was unlawfully appointed Read More »

By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he aimed to have a plan ready in November to enable Kyiv to hold a second international summit on his vision of peace in Ukraine, and he said representatives of Russia should attend. Ukraine hosted delegations from 92 countries at a first summit in …

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(Reuters) -The European Union announced sanctions on Monday against five Israeli individuals and three entities, describing them as responsible for “serious and systematic human rights abuses” against Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The list included Tzav 9, a group which it said had regularly blocked humanitarian aid trucks delivering food, water and …

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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The weather report is in for the two brown dwarfs – celestial bodies bigger than a planet but smaller than a star – closest to us. It is inclement, to put it mildly: blazingly hot, with a toxic chemical cocktail swirling in the atmosphere and clouds of silicate particles …

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(Reuters) – Fifty-five Nobel prize winners have signed an open letter urging Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to free more political prisoners after a human rights group said 18 were released at the start of this month. The appeal was signed by three winners of the Nobel literature prize including Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, as well …

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