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Gulf states, vulnerable but influential, seek to stop new Iran-Israel war

14 Apr 2024

By Samia Nakhoul and Pesha Magid DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) – Gulf states are pushing to stop a full-blown regional war after Iran’s unprecedented retaliatory strikes on Israel, sources in the region said, fearing new escalation could put them on front lines of a conflagration and ruin plans to reshape the region. Saudi Arabia and the United …

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Israel reopens airspace as airlines cancel flights due to Iran attacks

14 Apr 2024

By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli airlines said operations were returning to normal on Sunday after an overnight attack by Iranian missiles and drones closed the airspace and led to flight cancellations. Israel reopened its airspace as of 7:30 a.m. (0430 GMT) on Sunday, though flight schedules from Tel Aviv were expected to be affected …

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Ukraine attack on Russia-controlled town kills 16, official says

14 Apr 2024

(Reuters) – A Russia-installed official in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region said on Sunday that the death toll from shelling by Ukraine’s military on the town of Tokmak had risen to 16 people. Yevgeny Balitsky, the top Moscow-installed official in the region, said on the Telegram messaging app that 20 people had been wounded in the …

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Iran launches retaliatory attack on Israel with hundreds of drones, missiles

14 Apr 2024

By Dan Williams and Parisa Hafezi JERUSALEM/DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran launched explosive drones and fired missiles at Israel late on Saturday in its first direct attack on Israeli territory, a retaliatory strike that raised the threat of a wider regional conflict, as the U.S pledged “ironclad” backing for Israel. Sirens wailed and Reuters journalists in Israel …

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Iberians hit the beaches as temperatures rise 10C above normal

14 Apr 2024

(This April 13 story has been corrected to fix the Fahrenheit conversion in paragraph 1) By Vincent West BILBAO/LISBON (Reuters) – People in Bilbao in northwestern Spain normally spend April dodging the showers but on Saturday many hit the beach as temperatures were up to 10 degrees Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal. The Portuguese …

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Biden pledges G7 response, U.S. support for Israel after Iran attacks

14 Apr 2024

By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Saturday condemned Iranian attacks on military facilities in Israel, pledged a coordinated G7 diplomatic response and said the United States had helped Israel take down “nearly all” of the attacking drones and missiles. Biden, who cut short a trip to Delaware and returned …

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Iran launches drone attack at Israel, expected to unfold ‘over hours’

13 Apr 2024

By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Iran launched dozens of drones at Israel on Saturday but they will take hours to reach their targets, Israel’s military said, an attack that may trigger a major escalation between the regional archenemies, with the U.S. pledging to back Israel. Two security sources in Iraq said dozens of drones had …

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Factbox-Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: powerful group with wide regional reach

13 Apr 2024

(Reuters) -Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards launched a drone attack against targets in Israel on Saturday, Iranian English-language press TV cited Iranian sources as saying. A senior commander in the Corps’ Quds force, Mohammad Reza Zahedi, had been killed on April 1 in an airstrike on Iranian diplomatic premises in the Syrian capital, Damascus, that Iran …

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IAEA chief welcomes cold shutdown of all Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant reactor units

13 Apr 2024

KYIV (Reuters) – Safety at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine remains precarious but the shift to a cold shutdown of all six reactor units, completed on Saturday, is positive, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said in a statement. Drones attacked Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant, on Sunday, hitting a reactor building …

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Hamas rejects Israel’s ceasefire response, sticks to main demands

13 Apr 2024

By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has rejected an Israeli ceasefire proposal, saying on Saturday it had handed to mediators in Egypt and Qatar its response to the proposal it had received last Monday. After more than six months of war with Israel in Gaza, the negotiations remain deadlocked, with …

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