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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas said on Tuesday that an Israeli proposal on a ceasefire in their war in Gaza did not meet the demands of Palestinian militant factions, but it would study the offer further and deliver its response to mediators. The proposal was handed to the Palestinian Islamist movement by Egyptian and …

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By Brad Brooks and Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -The mother and father of a Michigan teen who shot and killed four classmates were each sentenced to between 10 and 15 years in prison on Tuesday after a jury convicted them of manslaughter in a rare case of parents being held responsible in a school shooting. Jennifer …

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By Claudia Cristoferi MILAN (Reuters) – At least three people have been killed and four are missing after a fire and explosion underground at a hydroelectric power plant in northern Italy on Tuesday, the local mayor said. Italian utility group Enel confirmed that a fire had broken out on one of its transformers at its …

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By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) -When Simon Harris made headlines in his local County Wicklow newspaper in 2003 for criticising the government, the future Irish prime minister was described as “a well-known local activist”. He was 16 years old. Now 37, Harris became Ireland’s youngest ever premier on Tuesday, an ascent that while swift owing …

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By Belén Carreño MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s lower house of parliament voted on Tuesday to start working on a bill that would legalise hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants, based on a proposal by civil society groups that had collected more than 600,000 signatures backing it. Political parties now have up to two months to …

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By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and James Mackenzie GENEVA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel says aid is moving into Gaza more quickly after international pressure to increase access, but the amount is disputed and the United Nations says it is still much less than the bare minimum to meet humanitarian needs. Israel said 468 aid trucks moved into Gaza on …

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