By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senior U.S. and Israeli officials held a virtual meeting on Monday to discuss the Biden administration’s alternative proposals to an Israeli military invasion of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip opposed by Washington. A U.S. official said the meeting had been completed and a written statement about it was expected …
ZURICH (Reuters) -Three people were killed and another person was injured in an avalanche that rumbled down a mountainside on Monday afternoon at Riffelberg by the Swiss Alpine ski resort of Zermatt, police said. A spokesperson for police in the southern canton of Valais had no immediate details about the identities of the people caught …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The Palestinian Authority wants the United Nations Security Council to vote this month to make it a full member of the world body, the Palestinian U.N. envoy told Reuters on Monday, a move that can be blocked by Israel’s ally the United States. Riyad Mansour, who has permanent observer …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Monday dismissed a report that Russian military intelligence may be behind the mysterious “Havana syndrome” ailment that has afflicted U.S. diplomats and spies globally. Insider, a Russia-focused investigative media group based in Riga, Latvia reported that members of a Russian military intelligence (GRU) unit known as 29155 had been placed …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s conservative government promised on Monday to offer extra financial aid and more staff to help the island of Crete and its tiny neighbour Gavdos handle a steep rise in arrivals of migrants trying to cross to Europe from Libya. In recent months, the islands of Crete and Gavdos, the southern point …
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By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran tipped off Russia about the possibility of a major “terrorist operation” on its soil ahead of the concert hall massacre near Moscow last month, three sources familiar with the matter said. In the deadliest attack inside Russia in 20 years, gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at concertgoers …
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By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Newly re-elected Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has emerged as the main challenger to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s reign. But in some ways, he is following in the footsteps of the Turkish leader who ran the city in the 1990s. Aside from having led the country’s biggest city, both have family …
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By Can Sezer and Burcu Karakas ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turks dealt President Tayyip Erdogan and his party their biggest electoral blow on Sunday in a nationwide local vote that reasserted the opposition as a political force and reinforced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as the president’s chief rival. With most of the votes counted, Imamoglu led by …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -A blast ripped through a Central Asian-themed cafe in the southern Russian city of Voronezh on Monday. The shattered windows of the “Eastern Tea House” on Lenin Street were shown in footage published by the Zvezda news service. The Mash media group said the cafe was attacked in the early hours when no …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Monday halted an operation aimed at saving 13 miners trapped in a mine since March 18, the TASS news agency cited mine management as saying. Rescuers had to halt their work due to the risk of another collapse, it said. (Reporting by Reuters; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
