By Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Reuters) -The head of Lebanon’s powerful armed group Hezbollah said on Wednesday that Israel’s killing of the deputy chief of allied Palestinian faction Hamas in Beirut was “a major, dangerous crime about which we cannot be silent”. In a televised speech, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah offered his condolences to Hamas for what …
(Reuters) – Ukraine launched 12 missiles and several drones in the early hours of Wednesday on Russia’s southern region of Belgorod, Russia’s defence ministry and local authorities said. Regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said the situation “continues to remain tense” in Belgorod, where Russia says 25 civilians including five children were killed in Ukrainian attacks on …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A 59-year-old woman died in Belgium’s East Flanders province on Tuesday after being hit by a blown-away fence during a period of heavy rainfall in the country, local governor Carina Van Cauter said in a statement on Wednesday. There are no large-scale evacuations planned in the region for the time being, Van …
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By Laila Bassam, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Arafat Barbakh BEIRUT/CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) – Israel killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri in a drone strike in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Tuesday, Lebanese and Palestinian security sources said, as its tanks and warplanes pummelled Gaza in further “high-intensity” warfare against the Islamist militant group in the enclave. Arouri, 57, …
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By Olena Harmash and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Russia pounded Ukraine’s two biggest cities on Tuesday in a new wave of heavy air strikes that killed at least five civilians and prompted calls for the West to quickly provide more military assistance. Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said 135 people had been injured in the latest missile …
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MADRID (Reuters) -A Spanish soccer fan who returned to Spain on Tuesday after spending more than a year detained by the Iranian authorities on espionage charges told reporters at the airport he was already planning his return to the Islamic Republic. Santiago Sanchez, who set out to walk to the Qatar World Cup from Spain, …
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(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russian forces are suffering heavy losses and the notion that Moscow is winning the nearly two-year-old war is only a “feeling” not based on reality. “Thousands, thousands of killed Russian soldiers, nobody even took them away,” he told The Economist magazine in an interview published on Monday, referring to …
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By Yuri Kovalenko VYSHNEVE, Ukraine (Reuters) – Inured by nearly two years of war, Olena Ohiievych wasted no time getting to work on Tuesday as she confronted the shambles left in her apartment by the latest Russian air attacks on Kyiv and its suburbs. It was cold outside and bound to get colder. “There are …
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PARIS (Reuters) – A team of forensic experts from planemaker Airbus and French state agency BAE will arrive in Japan on Wednesday to help authorities investigate the deadly accident involving a A350 plane at Tokyo’s Haneda airport, they said on Tuesday. “4 @BEA_Aero investigators will be on site tomorrow joined by 5 @Airbus technical advisors,” …
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ROME (Reuters) -Italian prosecutors on Tuesday placed a lawmaker from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s party under investigation after a bystander was injured by a shot fired from his gun at a New Year’s celebration. Emanuele Pozzolo, who is a member of Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, said the small revolver from which the bullet came …
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