By Iryna Nazarchuk and Yuliia Dysa ODESA, Ukraine (Reuters) -A Russian ballistic missile attack struck a residential area in Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa on Friday, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 70, in Moscow’s deadliest attack in weeks, Ukrainian officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia would receive a …
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By Nandita Bose and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar pledged on Friday to work to secure a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza cast a shadow on the annual St. Patrick’s Day reception at the White House. “We both know a …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – The leader of Poland’s largest opposition party said on Friday he would refuse to tell everything he knows to a parliamentary commission investigating allegations of phone-hacking when his party was in power. Jaroslaw Kaczynski missed out part of the oath as he appeared before the commission, which is looking into whether the …
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By Samia Nakhoul, Parisa Hafezi and Laila Bassam DUBAI (Reuters) -With ally Hamas under attack in Gaza, the head of Iran’s Quds Force visited Beirut in February to discuss the risk posed if Israel next aims at Lebanon’s Hezbollah, an offensive that could severely hurt Tehran’s main regional partner, seven sources said. In Beirut, Quds …
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By Samia Nakhoul DUBAI (Reuters) -Hamas has presented a Gaza ceasefire proposal to mediators and the U.S. that includes the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for freedom for Palestinian prisoners, 100 of whom are serving life sentences, according to a proposal seen by Reuters. Hamas said the initial release of Israelis would include women, …
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By Joe Skipper, Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette BOCA CHICA, Texas (Reuters) -SpaceX’s Starship rocket, designed to eventually send astronauts to the moon and beyond, completed nearly an entire test flight through space on its third try on Thursday, getting farther than ever before, but disintegrated on its return to Earth. During a webcast of …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s defence ministry said on Friday that its forces had thwarted a Ukrainian attempt to launch a cross-border attack on Russia’s Belgorod region on Thursday. In a statement, the ministry said that Ukraine had used helicopters to land up to 30 soldiers close to the border village of Kozinka. It said they …
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SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgarian worshippers thronged Sofia’s golden-domed Alexander Nevsky Cathedral on Friday to pay their last respects to Orthodox Christian Patriarch Neophyte who died this week aged 78. Neophyte, a soft-spoken theologian who sought to restore the reputation of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church hurt by links to businessmen and communist secret police, succeeded Patriarch …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday that a Russian national had been detained in Moscow on suspicion of treason and had confessed to assembling and launching drones on behalf of Ukraine. In a statement, the FSB said that the man, whom it did not name, had “assembled and launched unmanned …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italy has continued to export arms to Israel, the Italian defence minister said on Thursday, despite assurances last year that the government was blocking such sales following Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip. However, Guido Crosetto told parliament that only previously signed orders were being honoured after checks had been made to …
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