By Essi Lehto HELSINKI (Reuters) – A 12-year-old child shot and wounded three other 12-year-olds at a school in Finland on Tuesday and the suspect was taken peacefully into custody, police said. The victims were taken to hospital, a police spokesperson told Reuters. At the school, a building had been cordoned off by police. Parents …
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By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – After Silvio Berlusconi’s death last June, senior figures in his Forza Italia party openly speculated that the group would not be able to survive without its charismatic leader at the helm. Nine months on and the party, founded in 1994 when Berlusconi first stood for election, has actually pushed …
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PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks in Paris on Tuesday after a Washington-based NGO was struck by an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza, adding pressure on the United States to toughen its stance in the war between Israel and Hamas. Blinken arrived in the French capital before heading to …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s foreign minister asked the Israeli ambassador in Warsaw for “urgent explanations” after a Polish volunteer was killed while providing aid in Gaza. Citizens from Australia, Britain and Poland were among seven people working for celebrity chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza on …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Monday to shutter the local office of Qatari satellite television station Al Jazeera while the war in Gaza continues. Hours after his party spokesperson said parliament would be convened to ratify the necessary law, the Knesset approved the bill allowing the temporary closure in Israel of foreign …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said on Monday it received a report of an incident 150 nautical miles northwest of Yemen’s Hodeidah. “The Master of the vessel reported that they were hailed by an entity claiming to be Yemini Navy who requested the vessel turn on its automatic identification …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – France on Monday proposed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution that seeks options for possible U.N. monitoring of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and proposals to help the Palestinian Authority assume responsibilities. “It’s an ambitious project. It will take time,” French U.N. Ambassador Nicolas de Riviere …
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(Reuters) – Russia and Ukraine traded claims on Monday on downing enemy drones over the Black sea, with both sides apparently devoting increasing attention to developing and using unmanned aircraft. Russia’s Defence Ministry, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said its air defence units had intercepted six Ukrainian drones attempting to carry out a “terrorist …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Thousands of Israelis took to the streets in Jerusalem on Monday, continuing a three-day protest against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and demanding new elections. The protests have gathered in intensity as the war in Gaza nears the end of its sixth month and anger at the government’s handling of …
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran’s embassy in Syria on Monday, a marked escalation in a war pitting Israel against its regional adversaries, and Tehran said the strike killed seven military advisers including three senior commanders. Reuters reporters at the site in the Mezzeh district of Damascus saw emergency workers clambering atop rubble …
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