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US intelligence thinks Wagner plans to send air defence system to Hezbollah – WSJ

3 Nov 2023

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The United States has intelligence that Russia’s Wagner mercenary group plans to provide Hezbollah, the Iranian backed Lebanese militia, an air defence system, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified U.S. officials. The Journal said Wagner plans to supply the Pantsir-S1 system, known by NATO as the SA-22, which uses anti-aircraft missiles …

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Thousands of Gazan workers sent back from Israel, occupied West Bank – witnesses

3 Nov 2023

GAZA (Reuters) – Thousands of cross-border Gazan workers and labourers in Israel and the occupied West Bank were sent back to Gaza on Friday, Reuters journalists said. Some of the Gazan workers returned through the Kerem Shalom crossing east of the Rafah border crossing between the besieged Gaza Strip and Egypt, they said. The office …

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US imposes sweeping new sanctions targeting Russia over war in Ukraine

3 Nov 2023

By Daphne Psaledakis and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday imposed sweeping new measures against Moscow over the war in Ukraine, targeting Russia’s future energy capabilities, sanctions evasion and a suicide drone that has been a menace to Ukrainian troops and equipment, among others, in sanctions on hundreds of people and entities. …

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Anti-Semitic riot in Russia’s Dagestan leaves some local Jews shaken

3 Nov 2023

DERBENT, Russia (Reuters) -There were few visitors to Derbent’s sprawling Jewish cemetery in Russian’s Muslim-majority Dagestan region on Thursday, but some of those laying flowers on relatives’ graves said an anti-Semitic riot four days earlier had left them feeling unsettled. “Such things upset us a lot,” said Zoya Solomonova, who now lives in St Petersburg …

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At NY trial, Eric and Donald Trump Jr say they were not aware of fraud

2 Nov 2023

By Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. both testified on Thursday that they had no involvement with documents that a judge has ruled were fraudulently manipulated to inflate the value of their father Donald Trump’s business. In back-to-back appearances in a New York courtroom, Trump’s adult sons both said they …

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French defence minister fears ‘untenable situation’ for UN peacekeepers in Lebanon

2 Nov 2023

PARIS (Reuters) – France has passed messages to Hezbollah and Israel to not destabilise the United Nations’ Lebanon peacekeeping force UNIFIL and said that any broadening of the Hamas-Israel war to Lebanon would plunge the country “into an abyss”. France has sought to use its historical relationship with Lebanon to try to defuse tensions between …

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Israel says it has encircled Gaza City; UN team talks of ‘grave risk of genocide’

2 Nov 2023

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli forces on Thursday encircled Gaza City – the Gaza Strip’s main city – in their assault on Hamas, the military said, but the Palestinian militant group resisted their drive with hit-and-run attacks from underground tunnels. The city in the north of the Gaza Strip has …

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Israeli diplomat sees possible foreign hospital ships for Gaza wounded

2 Nov 2023

By Dan Williams, Sabine Siebold and John Irish JERUSALEM/BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) -Israel has asked foreign countries to send hospital ships to help treat wounded Palestinians who are allowed to leave the war-ravaged Gaza Strip for neighbouring Egypt, the Israeli ambassador to Germany said on Thursday. France said last week it was sending the naval vessel Tonnerre …

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France sends second helicopter carrier to Gaza coastline eyeing medical help

2 Nov 2023

PARIS (Reuters) – France will send a second French helicopter carrier off the coast of Gaza as it works with Israeli and Egyptian authorities to find a way to provide medical assistance to people affected by the bombings in the besieged area. Paris has already sent the Tonnerre carrier to the eastern Mediterranean on what …

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