MILAN (Reuters) -A bus driver has died after stones were thrown at a vehicle carrying fans home from a basketball game in central Italy, local media reported, causing shock in a country where fan violence is more often connected to soccer. After a match on Sunday between SRS Sebastiani Rieti and Pistoia Basket 2000 in …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia, the United States and Britain announced in 2021 they would transfer nuclear powered submarines to Australia, and two years later detailed an ambitious pathway that would bolster U.S. efforts to counter China’s naval ambitions in the Indo-Pacific. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is reviewing the deal struck before he returned to power, …
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By Alexander Cornwell, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeff Mason JERUSALEM/CAIRO/ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -The Israeli military said on Sunday a ceasefire in Gaza had resumed after an attack killed two of its soldiers and prompted a wave of airstrikes that Palestinians said killed 26 people, in the most serious test yet of this month’s truce. U.S. …
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By Gram Slattery, Tom Balmforth and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump pushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to give up swaths of territory to Russia during a tense meeting on Friday that left the Ukrainian delegation disappointed, according to two people briefed on the discussion. Trump also declined to provide Tomahawk missiles for …
By Sybille de La Hamaide and Gabriel Stargardter PARIS (Reuters) -Thieves in balaclavas broke into Paris’ Louvre museum on Sunday, using a crane to smash an upstairs window, then stealing priceless objects from an area that houses the French crown jewels before escaping on motorbikes, officials said. The robbery raises awkward questions about security at …
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(Reuters) -The head of Belarus’s security agency said his institution was trying to build contacts with Ukraine to help achieve a settlement of its more than 3-1/2-year-old war with Russia, the country’s state news agency reported on Sunday. Ivan Tertel’s comments to state television followed reports last week that a senior Belarusian diplomat had held …
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(Reuters) -Russian forces on Sunday attacked a coal mine in southeastern Ukraine and an unidentified energy site in the north near the Russian border, the operators of the sites said, adding to a series of recent assaults on Ukraine’s energy network. Private Ukrainian energy firm DTEK said Russian forces launched an attack on a colliery …
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NICOSIA (Reuters) -A moderate candidate won Turkish Cypriot presidential elections on Sunday, defeating a hardliner in a pivotal vote that could help revive stalled U.N. talks on reunifying Cyprus. Centre-left politician Tufan Erhurman sailed to victory with 62.8% of the vote from just over 218,000 registered voters, defeating incumbent Ersin Tatar on a platform of …
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PARIS (Reuters) -Here are details of the robbery that took place at Paris’ Louvre museum on Sunday and the jewels that were stolen. HOW DID THE THIEVES BREAK INTO THE LOUVRE? The thieves pulled up outside the Louvre on Sunday morning, on a road along the Seine river, and climbed an extendable ladder to break …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Palestinian militant group Hamas has released the last surviving hostages it was holding in Gaza, in exchange for almost 2,000 Palestinian detainees and prisoners, under the terms of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire. In the days following the initial October 13 release, Hamas handed over the bodies of some of the deceased hostages it …
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