By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) – Atousa joined angry protests against Iran’s rulers in 2022 that loyalists like Reza helped crush. Two years on, the two young Iranians’ political views remain at odds, reflecting a rift that will shape the outcome of presidential elections this week. Now 22, Atousa says she will abstain from voting …
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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -The death toll from a series of brazen attacks on churches and synagogues in Russia’s mainly Muslim region of Dagestan rose to 19 on Monday after gunmen went on the rampage in coordinated attacks in two of the republic’s most important cities. Gunmen with automatic weapons burst into an Orthodox …
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KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian missile attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa struck civilian infrastructure and injured at least three people, including a 19-year-old boy, on Monday morning, regional governor Oleh Kiper said. The attack damaged a storage facility where some 50 people were working, military and regional authorities said. A massive cloud of …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Gunmen opened fire at a synagogue, an Orthodox church and a police post in simultaneous attacks across two cities in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday, killing at least six policemen and injuring 12, Russian news agencies quoted the interior ministry as saying. The attack comes three months after 145 people …
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By Phil Stewart ESPARGOS, Cape Verde (Reuters) – An Israeli offensive in Lebanon has the potential to increase the risk of a broader conflict that draws in Iran and Iran-aligned militants, particularly if Hezbollah’s existence is threatened, the top U.S. general said on Sunday. Air Force General C.Q. Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Eight Palestinians were killed on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on a training college near Gaza City being used to distribute aid, Palestinian witnesses said, as Israeli tanks pushed further into the southern city of Rafah. The strike hit part of a vocational college run by the U.N. Palestinian refugee …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the phase of intense fighting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip was coming to an end but that the war would not end until the Islamist group no longer controls the Palestinian enclave. Once the intense fighting is over in Gaza, Netanyahu said, Israel …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Russian guided bombs shattered an apartment building in Ukraine’s second-largest city on Saturday, killing three people, injuring 52 and prompting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to call for more help to deal with the growing threat of such weapons. Pictures posted online showed parts of the five-storey apartment building in ruins, with windows smashed, balconies …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Thousands of women took to the streets in cities around France on Sunday to protest against Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally, as polls indicated the party could win the upcoming parliamentary elections. About 200 women’s rights groups and unions organised the marches in dozens of cities, including Paris, saying women’s rights …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia, the world’s biggest nuclear power, could reduce the decision-making time stipulated in official policy for the use of nuclear weapons if Moscow believes that threats are increasing, parliament’s defence committee chairman said. The war in Ukraine has triggered the biggest confrontation between Russia and the West …
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