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Palestinians prepare for Ramadan in the shadow of Gaza war

10 Mar 2024

By Sinan Abu Mayzer. Nidal al-Mughrabi. Bassam Masoud JERUSALEM/CAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza (Reuters) -Palestinians prepared for Ramadan in sombre mood with heightened security measures by Israeli police and the spectre of war and hunger in Gaza overshadowing the normally festive Muslim holy month as talks to secure a ceasefire stalled. Thousands of police have been deployed around …

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Macron backs ‘end of life’ bill, aims for parliament debate in May

10 Mar 2024

By Elizabeth Pineau and John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday for the first time that he backed new end-of-life legislation that would allow what he called “help to die” and wanted his government to put forward a draft bill to parliament in May. France’s neighbours Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands …

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Israel’s Herzog pleads for peace at Amsterdam Holocaust museum amid protest

10 Mar 2024

By Charlotte Van Campenhout, Piroschka van de Wouw and Hilde Verweij AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Israeli President Isaac Herzog, attending an opening of a Holocaust museum in Amsterdam on Sunday, called for prayers for peace and the immediate release of hostages taken by Hamas in its Oct. 7 attack and still held by the Islamist militants. …

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US military airlifts embassy personnel from Haiti, bolsters security

10 Mar 2024

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Sunday it has carried out an operation in Haiti to airlift non-essential embassy personnel from the country and added U.S. forces bolster embassy security, as Caribbean nation reels under a state of emergency. The operation was the latest sign of Haiti’s troubles as gang violence threatens to …

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Pope says Ukraine should have ‘courage of the white flag’ of negotiations

10 Mar 2024

By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) -Pope Francis has said in an interview that Ukraine should have what he called the courage of the “white flag” and negotiate an end to the war with Russia that followed Moscow’s full-scale invasion two years ago and that has killed tens of thousands. Francis made his comments in an …

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Alaska Airlines cooperates with DOJ in Boeing 737 MAX blowout probe

10 Mar 2024

(Reuters) -Alaska Airlines said on Saturday it is cooperating with the U.S. Department of Justice after a criminal investigation was opened into the Boeing 737 MAX blowout on its flight in January. “In an event like this, it’s normal for the DOJ to be conducting an investigation. We are fully cooperating and do not believe …

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Irish government ‘walloped’ by referendum defeats

10 Mar 2024

DUBLIN (Reuters) -Irish voters have rejected proposals to replace constitutional references to the makeup of a family and a mother’s “duties in the home” in a significant defeat for the government. Prime Minister Leo Varadkar had pitched the vote, held on Friday to coincide with International Women’s Day and counted on Saturday, as a chance …

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