(Corrects name, paragraph 8) By Michaela Cabrera PARIS (Reuters) – Animal rights activists from PETA disrupted Victoria Beckham’s runway show at Paris Fashion Week on Friday. The activists entered the runway as the models were walking down it, holding up placards that read “Viva Vegan Leather” and wearing t-shirts with the message “Turn your back …
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By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Friday plans to carry out a first military airdrop of food and supplies into Gaza, a day after the deaths of Palestinians queuing for aid threw a spotlight on an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the crowded coastal enclave. Biden …
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GAZA (Reuters) – Some Palestinians injured in a Gaza aid delivery disaster said on Friday that Israeli forces shot them as they rushed to get food for their families, describing a scene of terror and chaos. Health authorities in Hamas-run Gaza said 115 people were killed in the incident on Thursday, attributing the deaths to …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Thousands of Russians chanted Alexei Navalny’s name and said they would not forgive the authorities for his death as the opposition leader was laid to rest in Moscow on Friday. At a cemetery not far from where Navalny once lived, his mother Lyudmila and father Anatoly stooped over his open coffin to kiss …
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By Vitalii Hnidyi and Olena Harmash KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte signed a security deal with Ukraine in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on Friday and said the Netherlands would help fund the supply of 800,000 artillery shells to hold back Russian forces. Rutte met President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on a surprise visit …
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By Abhijith Ganapavaram, Allison Lampert and Valerie Insinna (Reuters) -Boeing said on Friday it was in preliminary talks to buy its former subsidiary Spirit AeroSystems as the company tries to get control of a sprawling crisis sparked by a Jan. 5 mid-air panel blowout. The planemaker said in a statement it believes its reintegration with …
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By Gabriela Baczynska and Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission will pay 50 million euros ($54 million) to beleaguered U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) but hold back 32 million euros while it deals with Israeli allegations that 12 staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. In an announcement on Friday, the …
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By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Nicaragua has filed a case at the International Court of Justice against Germany for giving financial and military aid to Israel and for defunding the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), the U.N.’s top court said on Friday. Nicaragua asked the ICJ, also known as the World Court, …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Friday the U.S. military would drop humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip in the coming days, and that Washington would be doing everything it could to get more aid into the enclave. Biden, speaking in the White House’s Oval Office, said the aid flow into Gaza was …
By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) – The pro-Kremlin head of Moldova’s Gagauzia region asked Russia on Friday for its support and to maintain close ties, after the pro-European Moldovan president said Moscow was mounting new efforts to destabilise her country. Eugenia Gutul, governor of Gagauzia, met the speaker of Russia’s upper house of parliament in …
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