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GENEVA (Reuters) -A United Nations report published on Thursday deplored what it called a “rapid deterioration” of human rights in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and urged Israeli authorities to end violence against the Palestinian population there. The report by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said 300 Palestinians had been …

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(Reuters) – Ukraine and Hungary are preparing a meeting of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the near future, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff said on Thursday, amid recent steps by Hungary that have soured ties. Earlier this month, all European Union states except Hungary agreed to start accession talks with …

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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania and Bulgaria have reached an agreement with Austria to join Europe’s open-borders Schengen area by air and sea from March 2024, with talks set to continue next year about land borders, the Romanian interior ministry said late on Wednesday. Austria opposed expanding the passport-free Schengen zone to Romania and Bulgaria at a meeting …

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By Vitalii Hnidyi and Thomas Peter SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Sitting alone in her bedroom, Ukrainian third-grader Arina Herasymova cuts an image of loneliness as she stares at her teacher and classmates on a screen. “I would like to go to school, to lessons. To play with friends during recess, not sit at home,” she …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Soviet-era Antonov-24 aircraft carrying 30 passengers landed on a frozen river near an airport in Russia’s far east on Thursday because of pilot error, transport prosecutors said. The Polar Airlines An-24 landed safely on the Kolyma river near Zyryanka in the Yakutia region, the prosecutors said. “According to preliminary information, the …

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