JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel won’t accept the presence of Turkish armed forces in Gaza under a U.S. plan to end war in the Palestinian territory for good, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan includes an international force in Gaza to help secure a fragile ceasefire which began this month, …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) -U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus is expected in Beirut on Monday for talks with Lebanese officials on disarming militant group Hezbollah, sources familiar with her visit said, amid fears in Lebanon that Israel could launch a renewed air war on the group. Those worries have been driven by days of intensifying Israeli strikes on …
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(Reuters) -Four migrants died when their boat sank off the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece’s coastguard said on Monday, adding seven had been rescued from the sea. “We recovered four bodies, the rescue operation continues. We don’t know if there were more people on the boat,” a coastguard official said. This is the second fatal …
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By Danial Azhar KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -European Council President Antonio Costa said on Monday that high-level officials from China were scheduled to visit Brussels in the coming weeks to discuss Beijing’s export curbs on rare earths. China’s expanded controls of rare earth exports have caused a global shortage, prompting an escalation in global trade tensions, …
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine and its allies agreed to work on a ceasefire plan in the coming ten days, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Axios, following U.S. president’s proposal to stop the war at current lines. “Some quick points. Like a plan for a ceasefire. We decided we will work on it in the next week or …
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Monday that Argentina’s President Javier Milei had a “lot of help” from the U.S. in his party’s midterm election victory, after Trump’s administration offered a bailout potentially worth $40 billion to boost Milei ahead of the polls. Speaking on a trip to Asia, Trump hailed …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland has detained two Ukrainians accused of collecting details of soldiers and critical infrastructure for foreign intelligence as Warsaw cracks down on alleged espionage by Russia and Belarus. The two Ukrainians were among eight people whose detention by Poland and Romania was announced last week, said Tomasz Siemoniak, Minister in Charge of Special …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian air defences shot down dozens of Ukrainian drones heading to Moscow and downed nearly 160 more over other regions in attacks that killed at least one and injured five others, Russian officials said on Monday. Nearly four years into the deadliest land war in Europe since World War Two, Russia is trying …
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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) -NATO member Lithuania closed Vilnius Airport and Belarus border crossings on Sunday after several objects, identified as likely helium balloons, entered its airspace, the National Crisis Management Centre said, the fourth such incident this week. Lithuania has said balloons are sent by smugglers transporting contraband cigarettes, but it also blames …
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By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) -Suspects have been arrested over the brazen jewellery heist at the Louvre, just as one of them was about to fly out of France, the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday. Two men in their 30s and originally from the capital’s Seine-Saint-Denis suburb – which includes some of the country’s most …
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