By Alberto Fajardo CAMPECHE, Mexico (Reuters) – Thousands of people across the Americas gazed at the heavens on Saturday to witness a rare phenomenon known as an annular solar eclipse, when the moon passes in front of the sun, momentarily producing the appearance of a “ring of fire” in the sky. “It’s one of those …
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(Reuters) – Anti-aircraft units downed 12 Ukrainian drones over the Kursk region in southern Russia, with no casualties on the ground, the region’s governor said. Roman Starovoit, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said debris from the drones landed outside populated areas. (Reporting by Ron Popeski)
KYIV (Reuters) -Russia’s military pressed on with fierce assaults on the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka on Saturday, with shelling so fierce that emergency crews were unable to recover the dead from wrecked buildings, the town’s top administrative official said. It was the fifth straight day of assaults on the town in Ukraine’s industrial heartland …
By Humeyra Pamuk RIYADH (Reuters) -The U.S. government on Saturday advised its citizens in Gaza to move south toward the Rafah border crossing with Egypt to be ready for its possible reopening amid the humanitarian crisis in the coastal enclave after a Hamas attack in Israel drew Israeli military retaliation. Washington worked with Egypt, Israel …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Two German air force planes will fly to Israel with materials and bring back German citizens who want to leave the country, a spokesperson for the defence ministry said on Saturday, adding the planes were not part of a military evacuation. The air force did not giving details on how many Germans …
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PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday deployed up to 7,000 soldiers for increased security patrols, as bomb alerts forced the evacuation of the Louvre museum a day after a teacher was killed in an Islamist attack. France was put on its highest security alert on Friday after a 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a …
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By Praveen Menon, Lewis Jackson and Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia on Saturday decisively rejected a proposal to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution, in a major setback to the country’s efforts for reconciliation with its First Peoples. Australians had to vote “Yes” or “No” in the referendum, the first in almost a quarter of …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Voting closed at 6 p.m. local time (0700 GMT) in three of Australia’s eastern states and its capital region in a referendum to decide whether to recognise its Indigenous people in the constitution through the establishment of an advisory body to parliament. The counting of the votes has begun in New South …
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(Reuters) -A Reuters video journalist was killed and six other journalists injured in southern Lebanon on Friday when missiles fired from the direction of Israel struck them, according to a Reuters videographer who was at the scene. The group of journalists, including from Al Jazeera and Agence France-Presse, were working near Alma al-Shaab, close to …
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By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Maya Gebeily AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Calls for a humanitarian corridor or an escape route for Palestinians from Gaza as a conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has escalated have drawn a blunt reaction from Arab neighbours. Egypt, the only Arab state to share a border with Gaza, and …
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