By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel sustained its aerial and ground bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing dozens of Palestinians, as fighting raged around Gaza City’s main Al Shifa hospital, Palestinian officials and the Israeli military said. Palestinian health officials said two Israeli strikes on the Al-Shejaia suburb in eastern Gaza City …
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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian prosecutors have asked the justice ministry to consider labelling Alla Pugacheva, the queen of Soviet pop music, as a “foreign agent”, a move that would officially designate Russia’s most famous star a foe of the Kremlin. Pugacheva, known across generations for hits such as the 1982 song “Million Scarlet …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court has remanded journalist Antonina Favorskaya in custody for two months after she was charged with participation in an extremist organisation, the Moscow court service said. Favorskaya was detained on March 27 and accused of participating in the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which late opposition leader Alexei Navalny founded, according to a …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) -NATO member Romania said it had found fragments of what appeared to be a drone on a farm near the river Danube and the border with Ukraine late on Thursday. Russia has been striking targets in western and central Ukraine with missile and drone attacks conducted at night. “In the evening of March …
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By Krisztina Fenyo BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Dogs are able to understand that some words refer to objects in a way that is similar to humans, a small study of canine brain waves has found, offering insight into the way the minds of man’s best friends work. That our four-legged companions are able to recognise words …
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By Stephanie van den Berg and Nidal al-Mughrabi THE HAGUE/CAIRO (Reuters) -The World Court on Thursday unanimously ordered Israel, accused by South Africa of genocide in Gaza, to take all necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies to the enclave’s Palestinian population and halt spreading famine. But Gaza’s Hamas rulers said a ceasefire …
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(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday that it was vital for Congress to pass a new military aid package for Kyiv rapidly in order to maintain international unity on the conflict with Russia. Republican Speaker Mike Johnson has held up a bill for months that …
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By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis looked well as he washed and kissed the feet of 12 women prisoners on Thursday at a traditional ritual on the first of four event-filled days leading to Easter for the 87-year-old pontiff. Francis travelled to Rome’s Rebibbia prison, in a run-down area on Rome’s outskirts, to …
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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) -The collapse of Baltimore’s Key Bridge has highlighted what engineers say is an urgent need to better protect the piers holding up spans over shipping channels as the size of cargo ships has grown in recent decades. Federal authorities continue an investigation into why a massive cargo ship lost power and …
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By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday asked Israel’s top court to defer a March 31 deadline for the government to come up with a new military conscription plan that would address mainstream anger at exemptions granted to ultra-Orthodox Jews. The decades-old controversy has become especially sensitive as Israel’s armed forces, …
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