KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine attacked the Ilsky and Slavyansk oil refineries in Russia’s Krasnodar region with drones early on Saturday, causing fires at the facilities, a Ukrainian intelligence source told Reuters. The attack was conducted by the SBU security service, the source said. Ukrainian drones also targeted the Kushchevsk military airfield in the same region …
By Lucien Libert PARIS (Reuters) – Tensions flared in front of Paris’ prestigious Sciences Po university over the war in Gaza on Friday as pro-Israeli protesters came to challenge pro-Palestinian students occupying the building. Police moved in to keep the two groups apart. Chanting their support for the Palestinians, some students had been occupying a …
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LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably didn’t order opposition politician Alexei Navalny killed at an Arctic prison camp in February, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Navalny, 47 when he died, was Putin’s fiercest domestic critic. His allies, branded extremists by the authorities, accused Putin of …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court has ordered a journalist for the Russian edition of Forbes, Sergei Mingazov, to be placed under house arrest, Russia’s state-owned RIA news agency reported on Saturday. Mingazov was detained on Friday on suspicion of spreading false information about the Russian army, his magazine said at the time. (Reporting by …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – Hamas said it had received on Saturday Israel’s official response to its latest ceasefire proposal and will study it before submitting its reply, the group’s deputy Gaza chief said in a statement. “Hamas has received today the official response of the Zionist occupation to the proposal presented to the …
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(This April 25 story has been refiled to fix the name of Sydney suburb to Wakeley, from Wakefield, in paragraph 4) SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian police said on Thursday they charged five teenagers with terrorism-related offences in investigations following the stabbing of an Assyrian Christian bishop while he was giving a livestreamed sermon earlier this …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Lawyers for Russian Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov have filed an appeal against a court decision to remand him in pre-trial detention, Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported on Friday. A Russian court on Wednesday remanded Ivanov in custody for two months on suspicion of taking bribes. RIA news agency, quoting court …
By Boldizsar Gyori BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Thousands took to the streets in downtown Budapest on Friday to demand child-protection reform, led by Peter Magyar, a former government insider who recently launched a political movement challenging the prime minister. The couple-thousand-strong crowd waved flags and chanted, “We’ve had enough”. Magyar swooped into Hungary’s political scene in …
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By Mohammad Salem and Nidal al-Mughrabi RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) – Relatives gathered by a tiny sandy grave in Gaza on Friday, where they had buried a baby girl, who lived just a few days after doctors delivered her from the womb of her dying mother following an Israeli airstrike. The baby had been given …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch government on Friday said it would consider resuming funding for the UN agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) in Gaza if the agency implements recommendations to strengthen its neutrality. The decision follows an investigation by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna released on Monday into whether some UNRWA employees were involved …
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