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By Anna Voitenko POKROVSK, Donetsk region, Ukraine (Reuters) -A Russian double-tap missile attack killed at least five people and wounded 41 others, including four children, in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk on Monday, regional officials said. “This is one of the largest enemy attacks on civilians recently,” regional governor Vadym Filashkin said on Telegram. …

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres accused Israel on Monday of spreading misinformation about him during the more than eight-month-long war between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “I’ve heard the same source many times saying that I never attacked Hamas, that I never condemned Hamas, that I am …

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By Dmitry Antonov and Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Monday squarely blamed the United States for an attack on Crimea with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles that killed at least four people and injured 151, and Moscow formally warned the U.S. ambassador that retaliation would follow. The war in Ukraine has deepened a crisis in …

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By Layli Foroudi and Manuel Ausloos LE PLESSIS-TREVISE, France (Reuters) – In a racially mixed suburb of Paris, left-wing parliamentary candidate Adel Amara campaigned door-to-door one evening this week, saying he worries for France’s minority communities if Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) wins the coming election. Amara, an opposition municipal councillor in the …

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By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday will emphasize to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant the importance of Israel swiftly developing a robust and realistic plan for the governance of Gaza for when the war is over, the U.S. State Department said. Department spokesperson Matthew …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Crammed in the back of a pickup truck, smeared with blood, three Israeli hostages are being filmed by their jubilant Palestinian captors. That is how Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, and Eliya Cohen, 26, and Or Levy, 33, all abducted on Oct. 7, were taken into the Gaza Strip, a video made public on Monday …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union will downgrade political contacts with Georgia and consider freezing financial aid to the government after it pushed through a controversial “foreign agent” law, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday. Speaking after a meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers in Luxembourg, Borrell said the Georgian government was …

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ATHENS (Reuters) – A 67-year-old German has been found dead on the Greek island of Crete, police said on Monday, the sixth tourist death in June during a period of unusually hot weather. The tourist had set off alone on a hike in a canyon in the Sougia region on Sunday and after a few …

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