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By Aleksandar Vasovic BELGRADE (Reuters) -Two pupils wounded in Serbia’s first mass school shooting were in critical condition on Thursday, health officials said, as the country prepared for three days of national mourning.   The suspected shooter, a 13-year-old boy, surrendered on Wednesday, police said, after taking two handguns belonging to his father and killing …

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By Ali Sawafta NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli forces on Thursday killed two Palestinian gunmen who shot dead a British-Israeli mother and her two daughters in April in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s domestic security service said. A third militant who had aided the two gunmen was also killed in the raid, Israel’s Shin Bet …

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By Manuel Ausloos ON THE FRONTLINE IN DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) – After months of living in trenches and bunkers near Ukraine’s southeastern frontlines, Artem and his fellow soldiers have lost the fear they once felt. The war ebbs and flows for the 30-year-old volunteer from a small town near Chernihiv, in the north of …

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By Toby Sterling and Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday visited the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, which in March issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for suspected deportation of children from Ukraine. Russia, which is not a member of the ICC and …

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HELSINKI (Reuters) -Russia has complained to Finland about vandalism at a Russian consulate on the Aland islands in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden, the Finnish foreign ministry said on Thursday. The Russian foreign ministry said on Wednesday a group of people had thrown “an explosive noise device” and other items into the consulate’s …

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By Boldizsar Gyori BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungarian police fired tear gas at teenagers and detained five people at a rally outside Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s offices on Wednesday after a protest against a new law that would eliminate teachers’ public-servant status. The police action follows a thousands-strong rally in central Budapest earlier on Wednesday against legislation …

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By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s largest daily Helsingin Sanomat on Wednesday took its struggle against Russian media restrictions to a popular online videogame to mark world press freedom day. Editor-in-chief Antero Mukka said the paper had to get creative in trying to breach the restrictions and decided to hide articles about Russia’s war …

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