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(Reuters) -Six months since Hamas gunmen stormed into southern Israel on a killing spree, Israel’s ground campaign to annihilate the Islamist movement has turned much of the Gaza Strip into a wasteland with an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe. Mediators have been trying to organise the first extended truce of the war to rush in aid to …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Relations between Russia and NATO have slid to the level of direct confrontation as the U.S.-led military bloc is already involved in the conflict in Ukraine and continues to expand towards Russia’s borders, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. (Reporting by Reuters)

By Anna Voitenko and Sergiy Chalyi CHERNIHIV REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine is working round the clock to build defensive fortifications to stop Russia’s troops advancing any further 26 months into their full-scale invasion. The Ukrainian government has allocated $509 million this year to fortify both its border with Russia and the front line with …

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By Gwladys Fouche JERGUL, Norway (Reuters) – It is minus 6 degrees Celsius in Arctic Norway and some 30 Indigenous Sami herders have gathered 1,500 reindeer in a corral, sorting who owns which animal after the herds mixed while grazing up on the Finnmark plateau. It is also an opportunity to discuss their big worry: …

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By Fatos Bytyci and Florion Goga ZVERNEC, Albania (Reuters) – Through binoculars, ornithologist Jon Vorpsi spies flamingos and pelicans that pause along their migration routes on a hook of protected land on Albania’s southern coast. Vorpsi fears the sight may soon end if Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner proceeds with plans to build a tourist …

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PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech Republic will donate tens of millions of euros to an initiative it is leading to buy hundreds of thousands of artillery ammunition rounds for Ukraine, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said. Two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, the most pressing need for Ukraine is artillery ammunition as the sides use heavy …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A backup power line supplying the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine has gone down, the Russian-controlled management of the plant said on Thursday. Ukraine’s state-run nuclear power company, Energoatom, said the main 750 kilovolt (kV) power line, recently restored by Ukrainian engineers, was still running. The six reactors at the …

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By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Tropical forest loss declined last year, but other indicators show that the world’s woodlands remain under tremendous pressure, according to an analysis released on Thursday by the Global Forest Watch monitoring project. Destruction of forests helps drive global climate change. Because trees absorb climate-warming carbon dioxide and store …

Tropical forest loss eased in 2023 but threats remain, analysis shows Read More »

LONDON (Reuters) – Euro zone business activity expanded last month for the first time since May 2023 but the recovery was uneven with a stronger than expected upturn in the bloc’s dominant services industry offsetting a deeper downturn in manufacturing, a survey showed. HCOB’s composite Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for the currency union, compiled by …

Euro zone business activity returned to growth in March, PMI shows Read More »