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PARIS (Reuters) – France accused Azerbaijan on Friday of fanning the flames of riots in the French-ruled Pacific island of New Caledonia by flooding social media with what it said were misleading photos and videos targeting French police. Paris has cracked down on rioters who are angry over a contested electoral reform and is trying …

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By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) – A comment made by a far-right lawmaker in Portugal’s parliament on Friday that opponents have criticised as racist has sparked a storm over whether or not such remarks should be considered as protected free speech. Andre Ventura, leader of the Chega party, said that Portugal should be able to …

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By Dominique Vidalon and Zhifan Liu PARIS (Reuters) – French police shot dead an armed man who set fire to a synagogue in the northwestern city of Rouen early on Friday, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin and local officials said. Police, who were called to the site because of smoke coming out of the building, shot …

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KYIV (Reuters) – A long-range Ukrainian strike on the Moscow-controlled Belbek airbase in occupied Crimea destroyed three Russian warplanes and a fuel facility near its main runway this week, U.S. commercial satellite company Maxar said. The company cited satellite imagery taken on Thursday as showing that two MiG-31 fighter jets and an Su-27 fighter jet …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel’s tanks pushed into the heart of Jabalia in northern Gaza on Thursday, facing anti-tank rockets and mortar bombs from militants concentrated there, while in the south, its forces pounded Rafah without advancing, Palestinian residents and militants said. The slow progress of Israel’s offensive, more than seven …

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By Yuliia Dysa, Anastasiia Malenko and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the northeastern city of Kharkiv on Thursday to boost morale and reinforce troops in the region where Russian forces are trying to press their new offensive beyond border areas. Moscow has made inroads of at least several kilometres into …

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MADRID (Reuters) -Spain has refused permission for an Israel-bound ship carrying arms to call at the southeastern port of Cartagena, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Thursday. Albares confirmed reports that the Marianne Danica was carrying a cargo of arms to Israel and had requested permission to call at Cartagena on May 21. He …

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