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Israel sends delegation to negotiate hostage release deal with Hamas

4 Jul 2024 4 Jul 2024

By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Mohammad Salem and Maayan Lubell CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday he has decided to send a delegation to resume stalled negotiations on a hostage release deal with Hamas, their administrations said. A source in the Israeli negotiating team, speaking on condition of anonymity, …

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Hungary’s Orban to head to Moscow to meet with Putin

4 Jul 2024 4 Jul 2024

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday, Radio Free Europe and the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Russian news agencies quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as neither confirming nor denying the visit. State news agency RIA cited Peskov as saying that …

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Russian paratroop commander ordered detained on corruption charges

4 Jul 2024 4 Jul 2024

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian military court on Thursday placed Colonel Artyom Gorodilov, commander of the country’s 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade, in pre-trial detention for two months on charges of large-scale fraud, the TASS state news agency reported. TASS quoted law enforcement as saying Gorodilov had pleaded not guilty to the charges. Gorodilov, who …

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Mbappe calls far-right election win catastrophic and urges action

4 Jul 2024 4 Jul 2024

By Mark Gleeson HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) – France captain Kylian Mbappe said gains by the far-right National Rally party in last weekend’s first round of French parliamentary elections were catastrophic and on Thursday urged French voters to come out against them. Mbappe has been among several French players at the European Championship who have spoken …

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Saudi Arabia’s Gaza aid threatened by Rafah closure, aid official says

4 Jul 2024 4 Jul 2024

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s main humanitarian agency said on Thursday the Israeli closure of Rafah and other crossings into Gaza was hampering its aid efforts to send lifesaving food, some of which was in danger of spoiling. “We have hundreds of trucks now piling in Rafah because of the closure of …

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Putin says he thinks Trump is sincere about ending Ukraine war

4 Jul 2024 4 Jul 2024

ASTANA (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he believed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was sincere about wanting to end the war in Ukraine, but that he did not know how Trump planned to do so if elected. Putin, speaking at a news conference in Kazakhstan at the end of a regional security …

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Factbox-Who are the Americans held in Russian jails?

4 Jul 2024 4 Jul 2024

LONDON (Reuters) -American Robert Woodland was found guilty of drug trafficking by a Russian court on Thursday. Here are some details about him and other Americans convicted or facing trial in Russia. ROBERT ROMANOV WOODLAND A U.S. citizen adopted from Russia as a child, Woodland was detained in January on drug possession charges. A Facebook …

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Norway condemns Israeli decision to ‘legalise’ settlement outposts

4 Jul 2024 4 Jul 2024

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Norway condemns Israel’s decision to “legalise” five settlement outposts in occupied Palestinian territory, Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said on Thursday. Israel last week said it was going to legalise five outposts in the West Bank and was advancing plans for constructing further settlements in the territory, among those Palestinians seek for …

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France to deploy more police to prevent trouble after Sunday election

4 Jul 2024 4 Jul 2024

By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) – Some 30,000 police will be deployed across France late on Sunday following the high-stakes runoff of a parliamentary election to ensure there is no trouble, a minister said, as two candidates said they had been victims of attacks on the campaign trail. Sunday’s second round will determine whether Marine …

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Romanian ruling coalition agrees parliamentary, presidential election dates

4 Jul 2024 4 Jul 2024

BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s ruling coalition of leftist Social Democrats and centre-right Liberals has agreed to hold a presidential election on Nov. 24 and Dec. 8, with parliamentary polls in between, they said on Thursday. The two parties, which are widely expected to continue in a coalition after the Dec. 1 parliamentary election, will likely …

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