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By Nandita Bose and Steve Holland DUBAI (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Saturday too many Palestinians are being killed in Gaza and urged Israel to do more to protect them as she sketched out a U.S. vision for post-conflict Gaza. At a news conference on the sidelines of the COP28 summit, Harris …

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By Arafat Barbakh and Nidal al-Mughrabi KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza (Reuters) -Under aerial bombardment from Israel, people sheltering in the south of the Gaza Strip after fleeing their homes earlier in the war said on Saturday they had nowhere safe to go now. The city of Khan Younis is the focus of Israeli air strikes and …

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By Richard Valdmanis, Sarah McFarlane and Simon Jessop DUBAI (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris sought to claim the mantle of global climate leadership for the United States on Saturday in a speech to the COP28 summit, listing a slew of initiatives to cut emissions and harness renewable energy in the world’s largest oil and …

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By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s security service said on Saturday it had prevented former president Petro Poroshenko from leaving the country on grounds that Russia planned to exploit a planned meeting with Hungary’s prime minister to hurt Ukrainian interests. Poroshenko’s political party, European Solidarity, said the former president had scheduled only meetings in …

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DUBAI (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that France was “very concerned” by the resumption of violence in Gaza and that he was heading to Qatar to help in efforts to kickstart a new truce ahead of a ceasefire. Macron also told a press conference at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai that …

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By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s president said on Saturday that the outgoing government would next week formally become a caretaker administration, unable to make long-term policy decisions, but he would approve decrees to ensure access to EU recovery funds. Prime Minister Antonio Costa resigned on Nov. 7 over an investigation into alleged illegalities …

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By Brad Haynes and Jake Spring MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) – The Amazon rainforest’s record-breaking drought hit home for Raimundo Leite de Souza one October morning, he said, when he woke to find the stream that runs behind his house had dropped nearly a foot overnight, stranding his skiff in a mudflat. As weeks passed, Souza …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant lost its power supply after the last remaining line to it from Ukrainian-controlled territory was disrupted, but it has since been repaired, the energy ministry said on Saturday. The plant was occupied by Russia in March 2022 and is no longer generating power, but needs a …

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