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AMMAN (Reuters) – Hundreds of residents of a main Palestinian camp in Lebanon fled on Monday as fighting between mainstream faction Fatah and radical Islamists raged for a third day, residents and security sources said. The fighting wrecked a ceasefire agreed on Sunday between rival Palestinian groups that included representatives of pro-Iranian Hezbollah group and …

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By Nikolaj Skydsgaard and Johan Ahlander COPENHAGEN/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -More Koran burnings took place in Sweden and Denmark on Monday as the governments of the two Nordic countries said they were examining ways to legally limit such acts in a bid to de-escalate growing tensions with several Muslim countries. Denmark and Sweden have seen several protests …

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By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) -The United States on Monday imposed sanctions against four top Bosnian Serb officials, including the Serb member of the country’s presidency, for undermining a U.S.-sponsored peace deal that ended the Balkan country’s war in the 1990s. Bosnia’s presidency member Zeljka Cvijanovic, along with the prime minister, justice minister and parliament …

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(Reuters) – UNESCO experts have recommended that Venice and its lagoon be added to its list of World Heritage in Danger as Italy is not doing enough to protect the city from the impact of climate change and mass tourism. UNESCO World Heritage Centre experts regularly review the state of the UN cultural agency’s 1,157 …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s defence ministry signed an agreement with Turkish company Baykar Makina to build a service centre for the repair and maintenance of drones in Ukraine, the ministry said on Monday. Ukraine is seeking to boost domestic production of drones to build an “Army of Drones” in its fight against Russian forces who …

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PAPHOS, Cyprus (Reuters) – A Briton found guilty of killing his terminally ill wife in Cyprus walked free on Monday after in effect being sentenced to time already served, in what may prove to be a test case for a country that does not permit assisted dying. Retired miner David Hunter, 76, had been cleared …

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By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s famed street artist, Bordalo II, has broken into a Lisbon venue where Pope Francis will celebrate a mass next week and rolled out a huge carpet of oversized banknotes to criticise how much the state has spent on the event. Francis will travel to Lisbon from Aug. 2-6 …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Twin Russian missile strikes on the city centre of Kryvyi Rih in southern Ukraine killed at least two people on Monday and more were trapped under rubble, the Ukrainian interior minister said. Smoke billowed from a gaping hole smashed in the side of a nine-storey building, while another, four-storey building had been almost …

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