(Reuters) – An unknown assailant stabbed the governor of Russia’s Arctic region of Murmansk, wounding him in the stomach after he held a meeting with residents on Thursday, Russian news agencies quoted the governor’s press service as saying. The agencies said the man accosted Governor Andrei Chibis as he emerged from a meeting in the …
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By Jake Spring (Reuters) – Has bird flu already killed hundreds, if not thousands of penguins in Antarctica? That’s what researchers are seeking to find out after a scientific expedition last month found at least 532 dead Adelie penguins, with thousands more thought to have died, according to a statement from Federation University Australia. While …
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By Vitalii Hnidyi and Anastasiia Malenko KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -A Russian drone attack struck residential buildings in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and an energy facility in the surrounding region on Thursday, killing four people and severing power for 350,000 residents, officials said. By evening, power supply limitations had been introduced in six Ukrainian regions …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Some 424 U.S. and British airstrikes on targets in Yemen have killed 37 people and wounded 30, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, leader of Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement, said on Thursday. The Houthis, who control Yemen’s capital and most populous areas, have attacked international shipping in the Red Sea since November in solidarity with …
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By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden threatened on Thursday to condition support for Israel’s offensive in Gaza on it taking concrete steps to protect aid workers and civilians, seeking for the first time to leverage U.S. aid to influence Israeli military behavior. Biden’s warning, relayed in a call with Prime …
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By Andrew Gray, John Irish and Simon Lewis BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO alliance members agreed on Thursday to scour their arsenals for more air defence systems to protect Ukraine from Russian ballistic missile attacks, as the alliance marked a 75th anniversary overshadowed by the war on its borders. “Allies understand the urgency,” NATO Secretary General Jens …
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NICOSIA (Reuters) – Spanish nongovernmental organization (NGO) Open Arms said it and U.S. charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) were suspending attempts to get aid to Gaza via sea after seven WCK workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Monday. The two charities had worked together in launching a maritime corridor of humanitarian aid to …
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By Parisa Hafezi, Laila Bassam, Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Dan Williams DUBAI (Reuters) – Hounded by months of deadly Israeli attacks in Syria, Iranian military commanders thought it safe to convene a top-level meeting inside Iran’s embassy compound in Damascus, believing it protected by international norms shielding diplomatic missions, according to a dozen Iranian, Syrian and …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel braced on Thursday for the possibility of a retaliatory attack after its suspected killing of Iranian generals in Damascus this week, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country would harm “whoever harms us or plans to harm us.” His comments came after Israel’s armed forces – stretched by nearly six months …
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By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen KORSOR, Denmark (Reuters) – A Danish frigate deployed to the Red Sea as part of a U.S.-led operation suffered malfunctioning of its weapon systems when attacked by drones operated by Houthi militants last month, the captain said on Thursday as the ship arrived in Denmark. The failure, which until Thursday had only …
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