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By Samia Nakhoul, Nidal al-Mughrabi, Matt Spetalnick and Laila Bassam DUBAI/GAZA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When Islamist group Hamas launched a spectacular attack against Israel, it also took aim at efforts to forge new regional security alignments that could threaten Palestinian aspirations for statehood and the ambitions of the group’s main backer Iran. Saturday’s assault, the biggest …

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LONDON (Reuters) – The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi will help shine a light on the plight of the country’s women, her former cellmate Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said on Saturday. British-Iranian aid worker Zaghari-Ratcliffe was released and returned to London last year, nearly six years after she …

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(Reuters) – The Supreme Court in military-ruled Myanmar has rejected appeals against six corruption convictions for the jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, according to media reports. Suu Kyi, in detention since the military toppled her government in a 2021 coup, faces 27 years in prison. She is appealing dozens of convictions for crimes ranging …

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(Reuters) -Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso announced on Saturday the removal of two officials, the prisons director and the head of the police investigations unit, following the killing of seven inmates accused in the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. The announcement came after six inmates were killed at the Litoral Penitentiary on Friday and another …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed “mighty vengeance” against Hamas after the Palestinian militant movement launched a surprise attack on Saturday, killing more than 150 Israelis and taking numerous captives. In a brief video address, he said Hamas would be held responsible for the well-being of the captives and said Israel would …

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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s military security depends on its own army and on an alliance with the United States, deputy prime minister and ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Saturday. Poland, one of the staunchest supporters of its eastern neighbour Ukraine after Russia’s invasion in early 2022, views Moscow as a growing threat and …

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(Reuters) – Israel told the United Nations Security Council on Saturday that Palestinian Islamist group Hamas “holds the sole responsibility and will bear the results” of its attack on the country. “The state of Israel will act in any way necessary to protect its citizens and sovereignty from the ongoing terrorist attacks originating from the …

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