By Kirsty Needham and Jill Gralow SYDNEY (Reuters) – An attacker who fatally knifed six people in a Sydney mall was shot dead by police in the beachside suburb of Bondi on Saturday, police said, as hundreds fled the scene. The assailant was shot by a police officer after he attacked shoppers in the busy …
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By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s army chief said on Saturday the situation on the eastern front had worsened in recent days as Russia has intensified its armoured assaults and battles rage for control of a village west of the devastated city of Bakhmut. The statement by Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi more than two years …
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By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Germany will supply a U.S.-made Patriot air defence system and air defence missiles to Ukraine at a “critical time” as Kyiv struggles to defend its energy system from Russian bombardment, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday. More than two years into its full-scale invasion, Russia has staged three massive …
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch foreign minister Hanke Bruins Slot told her Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in a phone call that Iran should not attack Israel and should take actions to “de-escalate”, she said on social media platform X. “During the conversation I also expressed my great concerns about the ship that was hijacked in the …
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(Reuters) -A Russia-installed official in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region said on Saturday that shelling by Ukraine’s military had killed eight people, including two children, in the town of Tokmak. Yevgeny Balitsky, the top Moscow-installed official in the Zaporizhzhia region, said that 18 people had been wounded in the shelling on Friday night. Another Russian-installed local …
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Jelena Acimovic is not a model, but on Friday evening she walked the runaway at Belgrade Fashion Week in a dress designed by Dior after drawings by her 14-year old sister who was killed in a school massacre last year. Angelina Acimovic was in history class when her classmate, a 13-year old …
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By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Yossi Levi is a member of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, whose exemption from compulsory military service is dividing Israel and threatens to topple its government. He is also a major in the infantry reserves of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). The long-standing military waiver for the ultra-Orthodox has sparked …
ORENBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Authorities in the Russian city of Orenburg called on thousands of residents to evacuate immediately on Friday due to rapidly rising flood waters after major rivers burst their banks due to a historic deluge of melting snow. Water was also rising sharply in another Russian region – Kurgan – and in neighbouring …
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By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel on Friday braced for an attack by Iran or its proxies as warnings grew of retaliation for the killing last week of a senior officer in Iran’s embassy in Damascus. Countries including India, France, Poland and Russia have warned their citizens against travel to the region, already on edge …
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By Lucien Libert, Michaela Cabrera and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) – Five years after a devastating fire, the restoration of Notre-Dame cathedral is nearing completion as the world’s eyes turn to Paris for the Olympic Games. On the evening of April 15, 2019, the cathedral’s roof burst into flames. Soon, it had engulfed the spire …
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