(Reuters) – Seven children were among 49 people who drowned in waters across Russia on Saturday as scorching heat blankets large swaths of the country, the Ministry for Emergency Situations said on Sunday. “A total of 65 incidents were registered on the country’s water bodies over the past 24 hours – 49 people died,” the …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ramadan Abed CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -At least 16 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinian families in central Gaza on Saturday, the Palestinian health ministry said, in an attack Israel said had targeted militants. The health ministry said the attack on the school in Al-Nuseirat killed …
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By Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) – Britain wants a balanced position on the war in the Middle East and will use diplomatic efforts to ensure a ceasefire is reached and hostages held by Palestinian militant group Hamas are released, its new foreign minister David Lammy told Reuters. Lammy is on a visit to Germany, his …
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(Reuters) – An oil truck collided with a minibus on Saturday in western Ukraine, killing 14 people, including a six-year-old child, and leaving a single survivor, Emergency Services said. The report, on the Telegram messaging app, was accompanied by pictures of an overturned vehicle in a cornfield in Rivne region. It said the survivor was …
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By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s president-elect, a relative moderate who beat a hardline rival to win election but who will likely be constrained in how much change he can effect, urged Iranians on Saturday to stick with him on “the difficult road ahead”. Masoud Pezeshkian, the sole moderate in the original field of four …
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By Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) – Jordan Bardella has helped steer France’s far-right National Rally (RN) toward its first real chance of power, the rapidly emerging fresh face of a party that has sought to clean up its image and widen its appeal in recent years. Bardella, 28, owes his initial ascent to a long-shot …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russia launched an overnight drone attack across Ukraine on Saturday, hitting an energy facility in the Sumy region in the northeast of the country, officials said. Ukrainian mobile drone hunter groups and air defence units shot down 24 of the 27 Russian drones fired on 12 regions, the air force said. National …
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By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -The low-profile moderate Masoud Pezeshkian, who has pledged to open Iran to the world and deliver freedoms its people have yearned for, has won the country’s run-off presidential vote, the interior ministry said on Saturday. “By gaining majority of the votes cast on Friday, Pezeshkian has become Iran’s next president,” …
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(Reuters) – Russian drone attacks on the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy early on Saturday cut power to the local water system and knocked out the water supply, officials were quoted as saying. Public broadcaster Suspilne reported a series of explosions in the city northeast of the capital Kyiv. It quoted municipal officials as saying …
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By Steve Holland and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NATO allies at their summit in Washington next week will unveil a “bridge to membership” plan for Ukraine and announce steps to bolster Kyiv’s air defenses, a senior U.S. official said on Friday. “Allies will reaffirm that Ukraine’s future is in NATO, will make significant new announcements …
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