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Ukrainian teen returns to Ukraine after being taken to Russia from occupied Mariupol

20 Nov 2023

By Thomas Peter and Yurii Kovalenko KORTELISY, Ukraine (Reuters) -A Ukrainian teenager who was taken to Russia from the occupied city of Mariupol during the war and prevented from leaving the country earlier this year returned to Ukraine on Sunday. Bohdan Yermokhin, who turned 18 on Sunday, appealed to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy this month to …

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Two killed in Russian shelling of Ukraine’s Kherson -officials

20 Nov 2023

KYIV (Reuters) – Two people were killed early on Monday after Russian forces shelled a parking lot in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, authorities said. Regional prosecutors opened a war-crimes investigation into the artillery strike, which occurred at around 9 a.m. (0700 GMT) and injured one other person, the regional prosecutor’s office reported. Kherson …

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Israel-Hamas hostage deal edges closer despite fierce fighting in Gaza

20 Nov 2023

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and James Mackenzie GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Hamas gunmen battled Israeli forces trying to push into Gaza’s largest refugee camp on Sunday, but despite the fighting U.S. and Israeli officials said a deal to free some of the hostages held in the besieged enclave was edging closer. About 240 hostages were taken during Hamas’s …

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Argentina voting ends in nail-biter election with libertarian slight favorite

19 Nov 2023

By Nicolás Misculin and Walter Bianchi BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina was on tenterhooks on Sunday as voting ended in a tight presidential runoff, with two starkly different visions for the country’s future on offer and an electorate simmering with anger at triple-digit inflation and rising poverty. The election pits Peronist Economy Minister Sergio Massa, at …

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Israel says soldier executed, foreign hostages held at Gaza’s Shifa hospital

19 Nov 2023

By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel stepped up accusations of Hamas abuses at the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital on Sunday, saying a captive soldier had been executed and two foreign hostages held at a site that has been a focus of its devastating six-week-old offensive. At one point a shelter for tens of thousands of …

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U.N. plastic treaty talks grapple with re-use, recycle, reduce debate

19 Nov 2023

By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) -A third round of United Nations negotiations to try to deliver the world’s first treaty to control plastic pollution has drawn more than 500 proposals from governments, participants said on Sunday. Negotiators, who spent a week meeting in the Kenyan capital at talks known as INC3, have until the end …

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Three more journalists killed in Gaza in Israeli offensive, relatives say

19 Nov 2023

(Reuters) – The head of a prominent media institution in Gaza and two other journalists were killed during the weekend in Israel’s offensive in the territory, their relatives said on Sunday, adding to the dozens of reporters who have died in the six-week conflict. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said the weekend …

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Israel says Houthis seize ship in Red Sea, no Israelis among owners or crew

19 Nov 2023

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel said on Sunday that Yemen’s Houthis had seized a British-owned and Japanese-operated cargo ship in the southern Red Sea, describing the incident as an “Iranian act of terrorism” with consequences for international maritime security. The Houthis said they had seized a ship in that area, but described it as Israeli. “We are …

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Israel ‘hopeful’ significant number of hostages could be freed, ambassador says

19 Nov 2023

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israel is hopeful that a significant number of hostages could be released by Hamas “in coming days,” Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Herzog said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “I’m hopeful we can have a deal in the coming days,” Herzog said. Hamas took about 240 …

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