By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Voting closed in New Zealand’s general election at 7:00 p.m. (0600 GMT) on Saturday and counting was set to start, with provisional results due later this evening. Opinion polls have indicated the opposition centre-right National Party looks set to gain the largest share of the vote but is unlikely …
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(Reuters) – Gaza is a coastal strip of land that lay on ancient trading and maritime routes along the Mediterranean shore. It has been inhabited for thousands of years and fought over by many – including Egyptian Pharaohs, Babylonians, Philistines, and Alexander the Great who besieged and captured Gaza City, killing the men and enslaving …
(Reuters) -The Israeli military made its first raids into the Gaza Strip ahead of an expected ground invasion. “I emphasise that this is only the beginning,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On Friday Israel gave more than a million residents of the northern half of Gaza 24 hours to flee to the south. Hamas vowed …
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli infantry made their first raids into the Gaza Strip on Friday since Hamas fighters rampaged through southern Israel, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a campaign of retaliation had only just begun. Israel has vowed to annihilate Hamas after its fighters burst out of Gaza a week ago and stormed through towns …
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ODESA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, visiting the Black Sea port of Odesa, vowed on Friday to improve Ukraine’s air defences and to increase the security of a “humanitarian corridor” for grain exports. Zelenskiy said Kyiv was working to strengthen its position in the Black Sea so that …
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By Samia Nakhoul DUBAI (Reuters) – Israeli forces poised to invade Gaza on a mission to wipe out Hamas will confront an ever-more capable opponent trained for years by a clandestine support network that stretches far beyond the tiny enclave to Iran and allied Arab groups. Hamas’ deadly attack on southern Israel six days ago …
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BISHKEK (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said an Israeli ground operation in Gaza would result in civilian losses and that the main thing was to stop the bloodshed. Israel’s military on Friday called for all civilians of Gaza City, more than 1 million people, to relocate south within 24 hours, as it …
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By Anthony Deutsch and Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE, Netherlands (Reuters) -The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction over potential war crimes carried out by Hamas militants in Israel and Israelis in the Gaza Strip, even though Israel is not a member state, the ICC’s top prosecutor told Reuters on Thursday. The occupied Palestinian territories …
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BISHKEK (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said Russia was expanding its economic ties with countries of the former Soviet Union in spite of Western sanctions against Moscow. Putin was speaking in Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian nation with strong ties to Moscow, during what was his first foreign trip since the International Criminal …
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KYIV (Reuters) – One person was killed and 13 wounded in a Russian attack on the city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on Friday, Ukrainian officials said. The emergency services said in a statement that two administrative buildings had been damaged as a result of the attack and three people had …
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