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Israel presses ground offensive in southern Gaza, air strikes intensify

4 Dec 2023 4 Dec 2023

By Arafat Barbakh and Mohammed Salem GAZA (Reuters) -Intense Israeli air strikes hit the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including in areas where Israel had told people to seek shelter, residents and journalists on the ground said. Israeli troops and tanks also pressed their ground campaign against …

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Hungary’s Orban demands EU skip decision on Ukraine membership talks

4 Dec 2023 4 Dec 2023

By Gabriela Baczynska and Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban demanded on Monday that a summit of European Union leaders next week avoid any decision on Ukraine’s coveted goal of getting a green light for membership talks even as the country fights Russia’s invasion. Orban, who has maintained ties with Moscow even …

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Poland demands restoration of EU limits on Ukrainian truckers

4 Dec 2023 4 Dec 2023

WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland is calling on the European Union restore permits limiting transit for Ukrainian truckers, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Monday as Polish and Slovakian truckers block several border crossings to Ukraine. Polish drivers have been blocking the crossings since Nov. 6, demanding that the EU reinstate a system whereby Ukrainian companies …

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Climate finance takes centre stage at COP28 climate talks

4 Dec 2023 4 Dec 2023

By Simon Jessop, David Stanway and Elizabeth Piper DUBAI (Reuters) – Money pledges are grabbing the spotlight at COP28 in Dubai, and more were expected on Monday as delegates turned their focus to the yawning gap in how much climate finance is needed and what’s on tap. Monday was expected to see announcements on trade …

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First empty lorries pass through new Ukraine crossing at Polish border

4 Dec 2023 4 Dec 2023

KYIV (Reuters) -The first 30 empty lorries passed through the newly opened Uhryniv-Dolhobychuv crossing on the Ukrainian-Polish border, which Kyiv hopes will unblock main land corridors amid protests by Polish drivers, Ukraine’s border service said on Monday. Those protests, over what Polish truckers see as unfair competition from their Ukrainian peers, started on Nov. 6, …

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‘No plan B’ for Paris opening ceremony after knife attack -sports minister

4 Dec 2023 4 Dec 2023

(Reuters) – There is no “plan B” for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games, the French sports minister said on Monday, after a man armed with a knife and hammer killed a German tourist and left two people wounded near the Eiffel Tower on Saturday. “We have no plan B, we …

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Russia launches 23 drones, cruise missiles overnight on Ukraine – Ukraine’s Air Force

4 Dec 2023 4 Dec 2023

(Reuters) – Russia launched 23 drones and a cruise missile overnight on Ukraine, Ukraine’s air force said on Monday, adding that its air defence systems destroyed the missile and 18 of the drones before they reached their targets. Anti-aircraft defense was deployed in at least 9 regions of Ukraine, the air force said on the …

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Two arrested in Italy for spreading Islamist propaganda – police

4 Dec 2023 4 Dec 2023

ROME (Reuters) – Two people have been arrested in Italy for spreading online terrorist propaganda linked to militant groups Palestine Islamic Jihad, Islamic State and al-Qaeda, police in the northern city of Brescia said Monday. The suspects are a Pakistani national and an Italian citizen of Pakistani origin, a statement said. They were apprehended following …

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Ukraine decries civilian deaths, injuries in new Russian shelling

3 Dec 2023 3 Dec 2023

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Fresh Russian shelling killed at least three people including an elderly man in a village garage and a woman beside a city bus stop, Ukrainian officials said, as President Volodymr Zelenskiy reported “intense battles” at dozens of frontline locations. “Russian occupiers once again shelled Kherson,” Zelenskiy said, referring to the …

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Knifeman kills German tourist, wounds others near France’s Eiffel Tower

3 Dec 2023 3 Dec 2023

By Dominique Vidalon and Gilles Guillaume PARIS (Reuters) -A man armed with a knife and a hammer killed a German tourist and left two people, including a British man, wounded near the Eiffel Tower in Paris late on Saturday in what President Emmanuel Macron called “a terrorist attack”. A 26-year-old suspect, a French national arrested …

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