BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will buy 20 additional Eurofighter jets from Airbus, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday, as the NATO member spends more on defence in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Scholz, speaking at the opening of the ILA air show just outside Berlin, said he was strongly committed to maintaining …
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By Ali Sawafta and Nidal al-Mughrabi RAMALLAH (Reuters) – Deep divisions will limit progress at reconciliation talks between Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah this month, conversations with five sources in the groups indicate, but the meetings highlight that the Islamist group is likely to retain influence after Israel’s war in Gaza. The talks between Hamas …
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(Reuters) – Russia’s Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by sociologist and activist Boris Kagarlitsky against his five-year prison sentence on charges of “justifying terrorism”, the TASS state news agency reported. Kagarlitsky, 65, is a longtime political dissident and has spoken out repeatedly against the conflict in Ukraine in a magazine he edited and …
BERLIN (Reuters) -A local politician from the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was injured in a knife attack in Mannheim late on Tuesday, the German news agency dpa reported on Wednesday. The incident comes just days after another stabbing attack at an anti-Islam demonstration in which a policeman was killed. The knifeman was detained …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel is phasing out the use of a military-run detention camp for Palestinians captured during the Gaza war where rights groups alleged there has been abuse of inmates, justice officials said on Wednesday. State attorneys told the Supreme Court that inmates held at the Sde Teiman site, which was opened after Hamas’ …
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By Isabelle Yr Carlsson and Tom Little COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Historical paintings rescued by fire fighters and the public during a huge blaze at Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange can almost all be restored, conservators said on Tuesday, as they put the damaged works on display. A blaze ripped through Denmark’s landmark 400-year-old stock exchange building …
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By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) – Police in Moldova, aided by French and U.S. colleagues, raided dozens of premises on Tuesday as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to block the actions of Interpol against fugitive criminals, a top prosecutor said. Veronica Dragalin, the country’s top anti-corruption prosecutor, told a news conference the …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Henriette Chacar CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli shelling and airstrikes killed at least 19 people in central and south Gaza on Tuesday including two policemen who were helping protect humanitarian aid deliveries in the southern city of Rafah, Palestinian medics said. Seventeen of the deaths, they said, occurred in separate Israeli airstrikes …
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LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – Slovenia became the latest European Union country to recognise an independent Palestinian state after its parliament approved the move with majority vote on Tuesday, dismissing a call for a referendum on the issue by the largest opposition party. The government last week decided to recognise Palestine as an independent and sovereign state …
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By Anita Komuves and Krisztina Fenyo PASZTO (Reuters) – The man hoping to challenge Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s 14-year iron grip over Hungarian politics is actively wooing Roma voters ahead of next weekend’s European Parliament (EP) election – and his message of change seems to be striking a chord. Peter Magyar, a political novice who …
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