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By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Luxembourg’s legislative election results on Sunday left the liberal-led coalition without a majority, making it likely the country’s long-dominant centre-right party will gain influence. Opinion polls indicated that the centre-right Christian Social People’s Party (CSV) – which was led for 19 years by EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker – …

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By Dan Williams and Emily Rose TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Arik Nani went to a dance party in southern Israel to celebrate his 26th birthday on Friday night but ended up fleeing a massacre as missiles roared overhead and Hamas gunmen shot down people as they tried to escape. Thousands of young people attended the …

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By Dan Williams AIRPORT CITY, Israel (Reuters) – Hundreds of stunned Israelis filed into a central police station on Sunday hoping for word on the fate of loved ones lost in the wake of a mass Palestinian infiltration from the Gaza Strip. Though long used to war, Israel was blindsided by the multi-pronged attack by …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) -The Gaza Strip has suffered its deadliest day in 15 years in the wake of an unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israel, to which Israel responded with air strikes that killed nearly 300 Palestinians in 24 hours, according to Palestinian officials. The dead included three-month-old twins, killed with their mother …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s opposition conservatives were on track to win state elections in Hesse and Bavaria on Sunday, according to exit polls by state broadcaster ARD, highlighting discontent with the Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centre-left federal government. In Hesse, the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) looked set to take 35.5% of the vote compared to 16% …

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BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany debated on Sunday whether it should stop aid to Palestinians following the biggest attack on Israel in years by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, with the government saying it was reviewing the way it spent development funds in the region. Development Minister Svenja Schulze of the ruling centre-left Social Democrats said the government …

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(Reuters) -Israel fired barrages of artillery into southern Lebanon on Sunday after Hezbollah targeted three Israeli military positions in the disputed Shebaa Farms. There were no immediate reports of casualties. On Saturday, the most serious attack in years by Palestinian gunmen on Israeli towns left at least 250 Israelis dead, with another 230 Gazans killed …

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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it targeted Israeli military positions in the disputed Shebaa Farms on Sunday, saying it was acting “in solidarity” with the Palestinian people after an unprecedented attack by Hamas gunmen from Gaza into Israel. Israel responded with barrages of artillery into southern Lebanon. No casualties have been reported. Backed by …

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