KYIV (Reuters) -Russian shelling killed five people in Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, officials said. Three people were killed and four injured in the town of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region governor Vadym Filashkin said, while two men in their 50s were reported killed in shelling near the town of Toretsk about 20 km (12 …
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Islamic countries should form an alliance against what he called “the growing threat of expansionism” from Israel, drawing a rebuke from the Israeli foreign minister. He made the comment after describing what Palestinian and Turkish officials said was the killing by Israeli troops of a Turkish-American …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli military strikes across the Palestinian Gaza Strip killed at least 61 people in the space of 48 hours, medics said on Saturday, as Israeli forces battled Hamas-led militants in the territory. Eleven months into the war, numerous rounds of diplomacy have so far failed to clinch a ceasefire …
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LISBON (Reuters) – Five inmates including a Briton, an Argentinian and a Georgian as well as two Portuguese escaped from the Vale de Judeus high-security prison some 30 km (18 miles) north of Lisbon, authorities said on Saturday. According to the Portuguese prison service, the men, aged between 33 and 61 years old, escaped at …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Three civilians were injured in Russia’s Belgorod region after Ukrainian shells hit the town of Shebekino, the regional governor said on Saturday. “Ambulance crews brought a woman in serious condition with shrapnel wounds to the back and thigh and a man with a shrapnel wound to the chest to the regional clinical …
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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -Thousands of people demonstrated across France on Saturday against Emmanuel Macron’s decision to pick centre-right politician Michel Barnier as prime minister, with leftist parties accusing the president of ignoring election results. Macron named 73-year-old Barnier, a conservative and the former Brexit negotiator for the European Union, as prime minister on …
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PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) – British tech tycoon Mike Lynch died of suffocation after running out of oxygen, an investigative source said, citing initial examinations carried out on Saturday after his body was recovered from the family yacht that sank off Sicily’s coast last month. Lynch, his daughter Hannah, 18, an onboard cook and four guests …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) -German rail company Deutsche Bahn said on Saturday that a technical fault, which had “massively disrupted” train services in the centre of the country, has been fixed. The rail operator said earlier in the day that trains could not leave stations in the affected area. Regional commuter train company RMV also said earlier …
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By Ricardo Brito, Luciana Magalhaes and Luana Maria Benedito BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) -A preliminary report into the August crash of an airliner in Brazil found signs of ice buildup on the plane but no definite cause for the accident, the country’s Center for Research and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (Cenipa) said on Friday. The document …
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By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s air force said on Saturday Russia launched a total of 67 long-range Shahed drones in a mass overnight attack, 58 of which it was able to shoot down. The air force said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app that air defence units were scrambled into action in …
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