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(Reuters) – Russian forces aiming to contain a four-month-old Ukrainian counteroffensive maintained unrelenting pressure on Sunday on the shattered town of Avdiivka in the east and intensified shelling in the southern area of Kherson. Russia has focused on the industrial east since pulling back from a failed advance on Kyiv at the start of the …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department said on Sunday U.S. citizens should not travel to Iraq after recent attacks on American troops and personnel in the region. The travel advisory says, “Do not travel to Iraq due to terrorism, kidnapping, armed conflict, civil unrest, and Mission Iraq’s limited capacity to provide support …

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DUBAI (Reuters) -An Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced two journalists to years in prison for their coverage of the death in custody of Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini last year, state media reported on Sunday. The death of 22-year-old Amini last September while in the custody of the morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic dress code unleashed …

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PARIS (Reuters) – French president Emmanuel Macron will visit Israel in coming days, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office said on Sunday. Macron and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte “will arrive tomorrow and Tuesday and will meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu,” it said on Sunday in a post on X. The Elysee has not yet confirmed …

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will travel to Israel for talks on Monday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and separately with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Rutte’s office said on Sunday. Rutte’s departure follows confirmation by the Netherlands’ foreign ministry on Sunday of the death of a 33-year-old Dutch woman who had travelled …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that French President Emmanuel Macron and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will visit Israel this week. Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that the two leaders “will arrive on Monday and Tuesday” and meet with him. (Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch; editing by John Stonestreet)

By Maria Starkova and Ronald Popeski KYIV (Reuters) -Six people have been killed and at least 14 injured in a Russian missile attack that hit a postal distribution centre in the war-devastated northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials said. “Russian missiles hit the Nova Poshta centre – an ordinary civilian object,” President Volodymyr Zelenksiy …

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