By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) -About 500 Palestinians were killed in a blast at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday that Palestinian health authorities said was caused by an Israeli air strike but that the Israeli military blamed on a failed rocket launch by a Palestinian militant group. The blast was the bloodiest single incident in …
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(Reuters) – Islamic State claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack in Brussels, according to the group’s channel on Telegram on Tuesday, which said one of its fighters carried out the attack that killed two people. A man suspected of shooting dead two Swedish football fans and wounding another in Brussels was a 45-year-old Tunisian who had …
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By Niklas Pollard and Anne Kauranen STOCKHOLM/HELSINKI (Reuters) -A Baltic Sea telecom cable connecting Sweden and Estonia was damaged at roughly the same time as a Finnish-Estonian pipeline and cable were earlier this month, but remains operational, Sweden’s civil defence minister said on Tuesday. Separately, Finnish investigators said they had identified vessels operating in the …
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met for 40 minutes in Tel Aviv with relatives of German hostages held by Hamas and said the German government would do whatever it can to secure the hostages’ release, the relatives told journalists on Tuesday. “We are getting out of this meeting a little bit more affirmed …
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(Reuters) – A passenger on a rubber boat adrift in the Mediterranean Sea called a rescue hotline on June 23 to plead for help. The boat – carrying 14 migrants from the Middle East and Africa – was out of fuel in choppy waters. And a male passenger had just drowned. The craft was about …
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By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders aim on Tuesday to settle on a united approach to the crisis triggered by the Hamas attack on Israel after days of confusion, infighting and mixed messaging. In an emergency video conference at 1530 GMT, the European Council, which brings together the leaders of the EU’s …
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By Emily Rose TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Two weeks ago, retired helicopter pilot Guy Poran, 67, was leading a group of Israeli pilots in a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to curb the powers of Israel’s highest court. Now, after the Gaza-based Palestinian Hamas militant group killed some 1,300 people on Israeli soil, …
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden leaves on Tuesday on a whirlwind trip to Israel and Jordan to get an update on Israel’s war aims in its looming battle with Hamas militants and stress the need to get humanitarian assistance to Gaza civilians. Biden is expected to spend part of Wednesday …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks in China on Tuesday with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. “Despite the fact that in today’s geopolitical conditions the opportunities for maintaining contacts and developing relations are very limited, nevertheless, it can only cause satisfaction that our relations with many European countries are maintained and developed. …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s military is still looking into the killing of a Reuters journalist in Lebanon near the border with Israel, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. “The Reuters event, we’re still looking into it. I’m looking at the footage and we’ll come out with an answer when we’re ready. A tragic event,” Lieutenant-Colonel Richard …
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