LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Saturday that two Royal Air Force aircraft flew a 12-hour mission earlier this week alongside U.S. and NATO forces to patrol the border of Russia, amid a series of recent Russian drone and aircraft incursions into NATO airspace. “This was a substantial joint mission with our U.S. and NATO allies,” …
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By Alexander Cornwell and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Thousands of displaced Palestinians trekked over the wastelands of Gaza to return to the ruins of their abandoned homes on Friday, after a ceasefire took effect and Israeli troops began pulling back under the first phase of an agreement to end the war. A huge column of …
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By Leila Miller MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (Reuters) -Dutch systems specialist Paul Post had glimpsed the notebooks that contained his father’s Nazi-era diaries before, but when he rediscovered them in an attic 15 years ago, the recent retiree finally had time to closely examine them. Post, 74, had no idea that they would ultimately lead to …
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(Corrects DTEK reference in paragraph 7 from Friday to Saturday, moves Chernihiv attack from 4 to 8 for clarity) By Yuliia Dysa KYIV (Reuters) -Emergency crews restored power to many parts of Ukraine after an overnight Russian drone and missile attack on Friday struck energy facilities, plunging large districts of Kyiv and other areas into …
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(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck near the east coast of the Kamchatka region in Russia’s far east on Saturday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was 10 km (6.2 miles) deep, GFZ said. (Reporting by Ananya Palyekar in Bengaluru; Editing by William Mallard)
(Corrects paragraph 6 to remove reference to US funding) (Reuters) -Twenty-three Ukrainian children and adolescents have been brought out of Russian-occupied areas of the country to territory under Kyiv’s control, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff said on Thursday. Andriy Yermak, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the rescue was carried out under the …
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By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron reappointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister on Friday just days after he quit the job, a move that enraged some of the president’s fiercest political opponents who pledged to vote out the new government. Macron, 47, will hope loyalist Lecornu can draw enough support from a …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -As thousands of Gazans began picking through the ruins of their shattered homes on Friday after a ceasefire deal, the excitement of return was quickly tempered by shock at the depth of the destruction and anxiety over the hardships ahead. The announcement that the U.S.-brokered accord had gone into effect …
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PARIS (Reuters) -President Emmanuel Macron reappointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister on Friday, just four days after he had resigned from the role, searching for a way out of France’s worst political crisis in decades. Here are reactions to Lecornu’s appointment: SEBASTIEN LECORNU, PRIME MINISTER “It is my duty to accept the mission entrusted to …
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By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -Two months after a smiling Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin shook hands at a military base in Alaska in what looked like the start of a U.S.-Russia rapprochement, a top Russian diplomat has raised doubts that the “spirit of Alaska” is still alive. For Russia, the Anchorage summit on August …
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