By Mohamad Torokman and Raneen Sawafta JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) – The family of 16-year-old Noureddin Marshoud wept over his body as it laid in a morgue in Jenin on Tuesday, after he was killed during an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank. Marshoud was named by the militant Islamic Jihad group as …
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By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO on Tuesday extended Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s contract by another year, opting to stick with an experienced leader rather than try to agree on a successor as war rages on the alliance’s doorstep. Stoltenberg, a former prime minister of Norway, has been the transatlantic security alliance’s leader since 2014 …
BONDY, France (Reuters) – In the down-at-heel Paris suburb of Bondy, where Kylian Mbappe grew up, some residents have looked to the 24-year-old France soccer star for guidance on how to react to a wave of rioting in their community and many others like it. The violence was triggered by the fatal police shooting on …
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(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted an eight-year-old girl in the Kremlin on Tuesday and got her to join him in a bizarre phone call to his finance minister to ask for a budget grant for her home region. The Kremlin released video of Putin welcoming the girl, Raisat Akipova, in the latest of …
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(Reuters) -Israel unleashed a major raid on July 3 on Jenin refugee camp, a Palestinian militant stronghold in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, killing at least 10 Palestinians in clashes with gunmen. Here is what you need to know about Jenin: WHY IS ISRAEL ATTACKING JENIN? Since March 2022, Jenin and outlying areas in the north …
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(Reuters) -Russia on Tuesday restated a demand for its state agricultural bank to be reconnected to the global SWIFT payments system to avert the collapse of the Black Sea grain deal, and said it would not accept a reported compromise proposal. With 13 days remaining until the expiry of the deal, which has allowed Ukraine …
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(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he would summon Georgia’s ambassador to Ukraine over what he decried as the “public execution” of that country’s jailed former president who had appeared unwell and severely emaciated at a court hearing. In his nightly video message, Zelenskiy urged Georgian authorities to allow Mikheil Saakashvili, who holds …
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ULM, Germany (Reuters) – An Eritrean man has been sentenced to life in prison after attacking two teenage girls on their way to school in the German town of Illerkirchberg, one of them fatally. The 27-year-old defendant was found guilty of murder and attempted murder. Last year’s knife attack in the town of around 5,000 …
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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuania’s president urged NATO leaders to be bolder in addressing Ukraine’s push for membership at a summit in his country next week, saying this would boost Kyiv’s battlefield performance while Moscow would see any caution as weakness. In an interview with Reuters, President Gitanas Nauseda advised NATO allies to disregard …
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By Layli Foroudi PARIS (Reuters) -Sports teacher Benjamin Belaidi held a banner reading “no justice, no peace” as he marched in memory of the teenager shot dead by French police, weary of what he described as repressive policing and an absent state in city suburbs. The 38-year-old Belaidi, who grew up in one of the …
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