PARIS (Reuters) – French police on Friday arrested a man who had threatened to blow himself up at Iran’s consulate in Paris, but on being searched was found not to be carrying any explosives. A police source told Reuters the man was seen at about 11 a.m. (0900 GMT) entering the consulate, carrying what appeared …
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By Tom Balmforth and Anastasiia Malenko KYIV/DNIPRO, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine shot down a Russian strategic bomber on Friday after the warplane took part in a long-range airstrike that killed eight people including two children in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, Kyiv said. Missiles rained down on the city of Dnipro and the surrounding region in the …
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By Makini Brice and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives advanced a $95 billion legislative package on Friday providing aid to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific in a broad bipartisan vote, overcoming hardline Republican opposition that had held it up for months. Friday’s procedural vote, which passed 316-94 with more support …
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By Parisa Hafezi and James Mackenzie DUBAI/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Explosions echoed over an Iranian city on Friday in what sources said was an Israeli attack, but Tehran played down the incident and indicated it had no plans for retaliation – a response that appeared gauged towards averting region-wide war. Iran’s foreign minister said the drones, which …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch privacy watchdog AP on Friday said it was recommending that government organizations should stop using Facebook as long as it is unclear what happens with personal data of users of the government’s Facebook pages. “People that visit a government’s page need to be able to trust that their personal and …
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(Reuters) -Russian missiles hit the port of Pivdennyi in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region on Friday, destroying grain storage facilities and foodstuffs they contained, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other officials said. “… they hit the Sea Port Pivdennyi. Several missiles struck port facilities, not only Ukrainian, but Singapore’s as well,” Zelenskiy said in a virtual address …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron met Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and the country’s army chief Joseph Aoun in Paris on Friday for talks on how to end cross-border fighting between Hezbollah and Israel and ease a political stalemate in Lebanon. A statement from Mikati’s office said he discussed with Macron a French …
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By Samia Nakhoul, Parisa Hafezi and James Mackenzie DUBAI/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel’s apparent strike on Iran after days of vacillation was small and appeared calibrated to dial back risks of a major war, even if the sheer fact it happened at all shattered a taboo of direct attacks that Tehran broke days earlier. Prime Minister Benjamin …
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BELGRADE (Reuters) -Croatia’s Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that President Zoran Milanovic cannot take up the more powerful position of prime minister after this week’s elections, saying the firebrand leader could not head any potential coalition. Hours later, Milanovic dismissed the court´s ruling, saying parliament was the only institution that could decide who will be …
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(Reuters) – Global airlines changed flight routes over Iran, canceled some flights, diverted others to alternate airports or returned planes to the points of departure on Friday, as Israel’s reported attack on Iran lead to airspace and airport closures and security concerns. Airlines have been facing disruptions to flights this week, after Iran’s missile and …
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