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By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Dan Williams and Humeyra Pamuk GAZA/JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Hopes for a brief ceasefire in southern Gaza to allow foreign passport holders to leave the besieged Palestinian enclave and aid to be brought in were dashed on Monday, with Israeli bombardments intensifying ahead of an expected ground invasion. Residents of Hamas-ruled Gaza said the …

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By Pascal Rossignol ARRAS, France (Reuters) -The high school in Arras, northern France, where a teacher was fatally stabbed on Friday was evacuated on Monday morning following a bomb alert, a Reuters photographer on site saw. A police explosives expert team arrived on site. Teachers and students of the Lycee Gambetta high school gathered in the courtyard …

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis on Sunday called for humanitarian corridors to help those under siege in Gaza and again appealed for the release of hostages held by the militant Islamist group Hamas. “I forcefully ask that children, the sick, the elderly and women, and all civilians do not become the victims of the conflict,” …

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WARSAW (Reuters) – The turnout in Poland’s general election was probably the highest since the fall of communism in 1989, the head of the electoral commission said on Sunday, after an exit poll put it at 72.9%. “The turnout is probably the highest in the history of the third Republic,” Sylwester Marciniak told a news …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine is working to evacuate nearly 260 of its citizens from Gaza and to fly other Ukrainians out of Israel, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly address on Sunday. Ukraine’s embassy in Israel said on social media on Saturday that 207 Ukrainian citizens, including 63 children, were evacuated from Tel Aviv …

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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron warned his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi in phone call on Sunday against any escalation of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, Macron’s office said. “The president of the republic warned President Raisi against any escalation or extension of the conflict, especially to Lebanon,” Macron’s office said in a …

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PARIS (Reuters) – The death toll of French citizens from the Hamas attacks in Israel has risen to 19, and 13 others are still unaccounted for and may have been taken hostage, French foreign minister Catherine Colonna said on Sunday. “Everything will be done to bring our compatriots back home. France does not abandon its …

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