By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -A senior official of the militant Islamist group Hamas, Osama Hamdan, said on Saturday there has been no progress in ceasefire talks with Israel over the Gaza war. The Palestinian group is still ready to “deal positively” with any ceasefire proposal that ends the war, Hamdan told a news conference …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said he would not bow to pressure from members of his government coalition to roll back his plans for billions of euros in personal income tax cuts to mitigate the creeping effects of inflation. Earlier this month, Lindner unveiled the plans for income tax cuts totalling 23 …
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By Lucinda Elliott, Monica Machicao and Daniel Ramos (Reuters) -Bolivian leftist President Luis Arce told Reuters on Friday support on the streets had strengthened his government after a failed military coup just days ago and that he would keep working until his last day, in one of his first interviews since the dramatic attack. The …
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By Steve Holland, Tim Reid and David Morgan RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Friday he intended to defeat Republican rival Donald Trump in the November presidential election, giving no sign he would consider dropping out of the race after a feeble debate performance that dismayed his fellow Democrats. “I know I’m …
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By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -A low-key moderate and a protege of Iran’s supreme leader are neck-and-neck in the vote count in snap presidential elections marked by voter apathy over economic hardships and social restrictions. More than 14 million votes have been counted so far from Friday’s vote, of which the sole moderate candidate Massoud …
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KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian missile strike hit a nine-storey residential building in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Friday, killing at least one person and injuring 12 others, officials said. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko warned the death toll would likely rise as more people remained trapped in the building where four upper storeys collapsed …
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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration will provide Ukraine with $150 million worth of weapons and ammunition, including HAWK air defense interceptors and 155 millimeter artillery munitions, two U.S. officials said on Friday. The weapons aid package is expected be unveiled on Monday, the officials said, declining to be named because the …
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By Humeyra Pamuk and Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration has sent to Israel large numbers of munitions, including more than 10,000 highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs and thousands of Hellfire missiles, since the start of the war in Gaza, said two U.S. officials briefed on an updated list of weapons shipments. Between …
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(Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that 10 people, all civilians, were handed back to Ukraine as part of an exchange of detainees after several years of captivity in Russia and its ally Belarus. “We managed to bring back 10 more of our people from Russian captivity, despite all the difficulties,” Zelenskiy wrote on …
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LOZNICA, Serbia (Reuters) – Scores of people in western Serbia’s town of Loznica rallied on Friday to protest the contested Rio Tinto lithium project in the Balkan country, fearing its development will damage the environment. Regarded as a critical material by the EU and the United States, lithium is used in batteries for EVs and …
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