MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish police on Saturday clashed with a group of farmers and truck drivers in Madrid as they tried to access a main road in a bid to block it, one of several protests sweeping the European Union against the bloc’s environmental rules and what workers see as excessive taxes and red tape. …
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(Reuters) -Relatives found the body on Saturday of a 6-year-old Palestinian girl who had begged Gaza rescuers to send help after being trapped by Israeli military fire, along with the bodies of five of her family members and two ambulance workers who had gone to save her. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) accused Israel …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced five senior military appointments on Saturday, filling out a rebooted team after he named Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi this week as the new armed forces chief. In his nightly video address, Zelenskiy said he spent the day meeting his military leadership and government and that experienced “combat …
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KYIV (Reuters) -A Ukrainian prosecutor, her husband, and their three small children were among seven people killed after a Russian drone attack on the northeastern city of Kharkiv hit an oil depot, triggering blazes that burned half a street to the ground, officials said on Saturday. The regional prosecutor’s office named the local prosecutor who …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Yemen’s Houthi militia held a funeral on Saturday for at least 17 militants killed during joint U.S.-British airstrikes targeting the Iran-backed militants, the Houthi-run Saba news agency said. The Houthis have launched waves of exploding drones and missiles at commercial ships since Nov. 19 in what they say is a response to …
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TURIN, Italy (Reuters) – Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral in the northern Italian city of Turin on Saturday of Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, the only son of Italy’s last king, who died last week aged 86. Among those present in the city’s main cathedral were Prince Albert of Monaco and Spain’s former Queen Sofia, …
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By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – A bipartisan delegation of U.S. Congress members came to Kyiv on Friday to meet with Ukraine’s president as they sought to give assurances they would do their part to get crucial, stalled military aid legislation through the House of Representatives. The delegation consisted of four members of the House …
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KYIV (Reuters) – A Russian drone attack killed seven civilians, including three children, in Ukraine’s city of Kharkiv, regional governor Oleh Synehubov said on Saturday. Synehubov said the Russian forces attacked the city of Kharkiv with Shaded drones late on Friday night. “As a result of the strikes, seven people died, among them three children: …
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By Jeff Mason and Andreas Rinke WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said Congress would be guilty of “close to criminal neglect” if it failed to pass funding for Ukraine and thanked German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday for his leadership in securing German military aid for Kyiv. Scholz, who was making a whirlwind stop …
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine President Javier Milei on Friday called for two government officials to resign, saying he needed greater commitment to his agenda after congress rejected his reform package earlier in the week. Milei, a self-defined anarcho-capitalist who took office in December, called for Mining Secretary Flavia Royon and Osvaldo Giordano, head of …
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