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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Wednesday met separately with Israeli relatives of hostages held by Hamas and Palestinians with family in Gaza and said the conflict had gone beyond war to become “terrorism”. Speaking in unscripted remarks at his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square shortly after the early morning meetings in …

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By Angelo Amante, Andreas Rinke and Sarah Marsh ROME/BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will agree to greater cooperation on issues from energy to defence at an intergovernmental summit in Berlin on Wednesday, the first in seven years, according to government sources. With Scholz from the centre-left Social …

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(Reuters) – Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday that Russia’s military appeared to be sending fewer troops and less equipment into the battle for the shattered eastern town of Avdiivka, seen as a gateway to the capital city of Donetsk region. Ukrainian military spokesperson Oleksandr Shtupun said there were fewer ground assaults and fewer air strikes …

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By Toby Sterling and Yves Herman AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Top candidates have gone on the offensive in the final days of the Netherlands’ national election, with late polls showing Labour leader Frans Timmermans and anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders making gains. A first-place finish for Timmermans in Wednesday’s vote could swing the next government toward the centre …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Germany will support Ukraine with another military aid package worth 1.3 billion euros ($1.42 billion) that will include four additional IRIS-T air defence units, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said in Kyiv on Tuesday. So far, Berlin has pledged to supply Kyiv with eight IRIS-T systems, three of which have been delivered. Ukraine …

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BEIRUT (Reuters) -Separate Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed eight people, including two journalists working for a Lebanese TV channel and a senior Hamas official, according to Lebanese state media and official sources. The deaths bring those killed in Lebanon since the beginning of hostilities along the border to more than 80 people, …

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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Argentina’s right-wing President-elect Javier Milei, who in past years has called Pope Francis everything from a “son of a bitch” to an “imbecile” to the devil’s man on earth, spoke on the phone with his countryman on Tuesday. The Vatican said the two spoke in the late afternoon …

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By Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey KHARKIV REGION (Reuters) – In a nondescript warehouse in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv, a crew of repairmen work tirelessly to fix Ukrainian tanks damaged by Russia’s vast arsenal of mines, drones and artillery. “The most common causes why vehicles are brought here are because they either drove over an enemy …

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