BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell set out proposals on Monday for how Gaza should be run after the war between Israel and Hamas, calling on Arab countries to play a greater role in a future Palestinian administration. Borrell, who will travel to Israel, the Palestinian territories and neighbouring countries later …
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By Catarina Demony and Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s former infrastructure minister, Pedro Nuno Santos, 46, joined the race on Monday to become Socialist Party leader in an upcoming general election after its current chief and Prime Minister Antonio Costa resigned amid a corruption probe. Costa, in power since 2015, stepped down last week …
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MADRID (Reuters) – A group of around 40 Spanish citizens were evacuated from Gaza on Monday through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, Spanish acting Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said. They are part of a group of between 140 and 170 Spaniards and members of their families, some with dual citizenship, who had asked …
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By Mark Trevelyan and Alexander Marrow LONDON (Reuters) -Two Russian state news agencies published alerts on Monday saying Moscow was moving troops to “more favourable positions” east of the Dnipro River in Ukraine, only to withdraw the information minutes later. The highly unusual incident suggested disarray in Russia’s military establishment and state media over how …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Seismic activity in southwestern Iceland decreased in size and intensity on Monday, but the risk of a volcanic eruption remained significant, authorities said, after earthquakes and evidence of magma spreading underground in recent weeks. Almost 4,000 people were evacuated over the weekend as authorities feared that molten rock would rise to the surface …
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By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) -Lawyers for a Russian artist who faces up to eight years in prison for replacing supermarket price tags with demands for an end to Moscow’s war in Ukraine told a court on Monday their client would not survive a jail term and must be freed. Critics say the case of Alexandra …
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By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) -A European Union plan to spend up to 20 billion euros ($21.4 billion) on military aid for Ukraine is meeting resistance from EU countries and may not survive in its current form, diplomats say. Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, proposed in July that the bloc create a fund …
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(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned Ukrainians on Sunday to prepare for new waves of Russian attacks on infrastructure as winter approached and said troops were anticipating an onslaught in the eastern theatre of the war. A military spokesman said Russian attacks on the shattered eastern town of Avdiivka had eased in the past day, …
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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Financials Acquisition Corp said on Monday it would enter liquidation as it scraps a planned merger with its newly formed insurance venture, citing “insufficient” cash commitments due to volatile capital markets. The special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) had unveiled plans to combine with London Innovation Underwriters (LIU) and raise …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Two more major hospitals in Gaza closed to new patients on Sunday, with staff saying that Israeli bombardment plus lack of fuel and medicine meant more babies and others could die. Hospitals in the north of the Palestinian enclave are blockaded by Israeli forces and barely able …
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