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By Iryna Nazarchuk ODESA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russia launched a major air attack on the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa late on Sunday, wounding at least eight people, setting ablaze trucks loaded with grain and damaging one of the city’s principal art galleries, officials said. About 20 multi-storey buildings and more than two dozen cars …

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By John Geddie, Sakura Murakami and Kentaro Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) – The Group of Seven (G7) bloc of wealthy democracies risks eroding its relevance as a force to tackle major geopolitical crises over an apparent struggle between its member nations to agree on a firm, united approach to Israel’s war in Gaza. Foreign ministers from …

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(Reuters) – Russia and Ukraine gave clashing accounts over the weekend about what is going on along the frontline in the Zaporizhzhia region, with Moscow saying it has stopped Kyiv’s counter-offensive and Ukraine’s army saying it keeps pressing on. Ukraine has retaken a few small villages in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region since the start of …

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By Simon Lewis RAMALLAH/BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken said the Palestinian Authority (PA) should play a central role in the future of the Gaza Strip, as he met with Iraqi leaders and toured the region amid spiraling tensions over Israel’s war with Hamas. Blinken passed through Israeli checkpoints to meet Palestinian Authority President …

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid an unannounced visit to Iraq on Sunday, as he tours the Middle East attempting to tamp down tensions after war erupted between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas last month. After an earlier visit to the occupied West Bank, Blinken landed in Baghdad on Sunday evening for …

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