By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – Washington said it was trying to keep Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas engaged “if only virtually” in Gaza truce efforts as a U.N. agency warned that humanitarian aid stocks in the devastated enclave have hit “the bottom of the barrel.” Hamas said on Friday it would consult …
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By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -Talks to draw up a global pact to help fight future pandemics have ended without a draft agreement by the expected deadline, but progress has been made, the World Health Organization said on Friday. Negotiators from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 194 member states were hoping to have a final …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member by recognizing it as qualified to join and recommending the U.N. Security Council “reconsider the matter favorably.” The vote by the 193-member General Assembly was a global survey of support for …
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By Niket Nishant and Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) -Billionaire investor James Simons, the mathematician and Cold War code-breaker who founded one of the world’s most prominent and profitable hedge funds, Renaissance Technologies, has died at 86, his foundation said on Friday. The Simons Foundation did not give a cause of death. Sixty years ago Simons — …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – The Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Friday that efforts to find a Gaza Strip truce deal were back at square one after Israel effectively spurned a plan from international mediators, and the White House said it was trying to keep the sides engaged “if only virtually.” Hamas said …
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PARIS (Reuters) -French soccer star Kylian Mbappe said in a video on social media platform X on Friday that he would leave Paris Saint Germain and end his ‘adventure’ with the club in a few weeks time. “This is my last year at Paris Saint Germain. I will not stay on and I will end …
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MALMO, Sweden (Reuters) -The world’s biggest live music event involving 37 nations, the Eurovision Song Contest, culminates in Sweden this weekend. Roughly 100,000 visitors from 89 countries have descended on host city Malmo during the week for the 68th edition of the competition, which has been marked by anti-Israel protests. WHO IS IN SATURDAY’S FINAL? …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Mohammad Salem and Jarrett Renshaw CAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza Strip/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Israeli forces bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday, Palestinian residents said, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed U.S. President Joe Biden’s threat to withhold weapons from Israel if it assaults the southern Gaza city. A senior Israeli official said late on Thursday that …
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By Sergiy Karazy, Tom Balmforth and Yuliia Dysa KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces launched an armoured ground attack on Friday near Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv in the northeast of the country and made small inroads, opening a new front in a war that has long been waged in the east and south. Ukraine sent reinforcements …
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By Steve Holland and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is working around the clock to provide Ukraine with supplies to defend itself against an intensified Russian attack that could target Kharkiv, the White House said on Friday. Russian forces launched an armored ground attack on Friday near Ukraine’s second largest city of …
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