(Reuters) -A French court on Thursday rejected the appeal of a former construction worker found guilty last year of the aggravated rape of Gisele Pelicot, and increased his prison sentence by a year to 10 years, his lawyer said. Husamettin Dogan was the only one of 51 men convicted in last year’s harrowing mass rape …
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By Marwa Rashad, Kate Abnett and Nerijus Adomaitis (Reuters) -European nations, including France, are among the staunchest supporters of Ukraine in its fight against Russia. Several have also stepped up their imports of Russian energy which pump billions of euros into Moscow’s wartime economy. Well into the fourth year of Russia’s war against Ukraine, the …
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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -The United States’ closest European and Arab partners met in Paris on Thursday to work out how to shape Gaza’s post-war future, hours after Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire and prisoner-hostage swap proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump. Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas signed an agreement …
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By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Americans blame both Republicans and Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown and are worried services could falter as a third of the federal workforce sits on unpaid leave, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The five-day poll, completed on Tuesday, asked Americans nationwide how much blame Democrats, Republicans and President Donald …
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By Sudip Kar-Gupta BRUSSELS (Reuters) -A group planning attacks on Belgian politicians, including Prime Minister Bart de Wever, has been thwarted, the public prosecutor’s office and deputy prime minister Maxime Prevot said on Thursday. “The news of a planned attack targeting Prime Minister Bart de Wever is extremely shocking,” Prevot wrote on X. “It highlights …
By Justyna Pawlak and Krisztina Than STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. “Laszlo Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -A trilateral ministerial meeting on the future of France, Germany and Spain’s 100-billion-euro project to develop a European fighter jet has been postponed due to the political crisis in France, a German defence ministry spokesperson told Reuters. The defence ministers of the three countries had been scheduled to meet mid-October in a bid …
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By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -With the Gaza war entering its third year, U.S. President Donald Trump has achieved something no other world leader has been able to do: strong-arm Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into the first step of a broader peace deal while persuading other Middle Eastern countries to pressure Hamas. But despite …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -Exiled Gaza chief Khalil Al-Hayya said on Thursday the group has received guarantees from the United States, Arab mediators, and Turkey that the war in Gaza has permanently ended. Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas signed an agreement on Thursday to cease fire and free Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, …
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ROME (Reuters) -A once-secret passageway in the Colosseum, named after the fearsome ancient Roman emperor who features in the Hollywood blockbuster “Gladiator”, has opened to the public for the first time. The so-called Commodus Passage allowed emperors to enter the arena and watch gladiator fights and other spectacles without mixing with crowds. It was cut …
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