By Nathan Frandino US PIER OFF GAZA COAST (Reuters) – Baking under the summer sun, U.S. troops find shelter in containers stationed on what is known as the “parking lot” of a floating pier in the Mediterranean Sea that aims to boost the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Just over the horizon, …
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By Kanishka Singh and Kate Holton WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) -Free-speech organizations welcomed the news of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s release from jail in Britain but said the U.S. case had still set a bad precedent for journalism. Assange is due to plead guilty on Wednesday to one charge of violating U.S. espionage law, in a deal …
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By Kate Holton and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Stella Assange, the wife of WikiLeaks founder Julian, told Reuters on Tuesday they would seek a pardon after he agreed to plead guilty to violating U.S. espionage law, bringing his long-running legal saga in Britain to an end. Assange, 52, will plead guilty to a single …
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By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin says Russia’s war in Ukraine is part of an existential struggle with the West that demands total focus – but deadly shootings in Dagestan show that militant Islam is a rising threat that may force him to redirect resources. The latest violence, in which at least …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed at least 24 Palestinians in three separate airstrikes early on Tuesday on Gaza City and the dead included a sister of Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of the militant Islamist Hamas group, Gaza health officials and medics said. Israeli tanks also pressed deeper into western areas of Rafah …
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By Alasdair Pal and Sarah N. Lynch SYDNEY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty on Wednesday to violating U.S. espionage law, in a deal that will set him free after a 14-year British legal odyssey and allow his return home to Australia. Assange, 52, has agreed to plead guilty to a …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Julian Assange’s wife Stella said on Tuesday she was “elated” and it was “incredible” her husband was set to be freed following a 14-year legal battle. Assange, 52, has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defense documents, according to filings …
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By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) -Better known for its sandy beaches and Second World War wrecks, the tropical Pacific island of Saipan will soon host the final act of Julian Assange’s 14-year legal odyssey. Assange is en route to a courtroom on the island where he is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday to a …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron told a podcast episode shown on Monday that both the far right National Rally (RN) party and the left-wing New Popular Front coalition – front runners in the parliamentary election- risked bringing “civil war” to France. Macron told the podcast “Generation Do It Yourself” that the manifesto of …
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DUBLIN (Reuters) -The leaders of Ireland’s three governing parties agreed on Monday to nominate Finance Minister Michael McGrath as the country’s representative on the European Commission, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. McGrath, who served as public expenditure minister for two-and-a-half years before moving to the finance brief in December 2022, was responsible …
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