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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -Hamas said on Tuesday it was ready to reach a deal to end the war in Gaza based on President Donald Trump’s plan but still has demands, as Qatar’s prime minister and senior U.S. mediators headed to Egypt to join indirect negotiations between the Palestinian …

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MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish emergency services have recovered the bodies of four people from beneath the rubble of a six-storey building that collapsed in central Madrid while being refurbished into a hotel, local authorities said on Wednesday. “It is with deep sadness that we confirm that Madrid firefighters have recovered the bodies of the people who …

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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish activist Greta Thunberg alleged on Tuesday that she and other detainees of the Gaza flotilla were subjected to torture in the Israeli prison they were held. Thunberg told a news conference in Stockholm that she and others were “kidnapped and tortured” by the Israeli military. She declined to elaborate, adding when pressed …

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GAZA (Reuters) -Two years of Israeli bombardment of Gaza has piled grief upon grief for displaced Palestinian Inas Abu Maamar. In the first days of the war, a Reuters photograph showed Abu Maamar stricken in a hospital morgue, cradling the shrouded body of her five-year-old niece Saly. Since then, Israeli airstrikes and tank shells have …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russian forces had captured almost 5,000 square km (1,930 square miles) of land in Ukraine in 2025 and that Moscow retained complete strategic initiative on the battlefield.  Russia’s 2025 gains would amount to nearly 1% of Ukraine’s land area, and the country controls nearly 20% …

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By Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -U.S.-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for “experiments that revealed quantum physics in action”, paving the way for the development of the next generation of digital technologies. “My feelings are that I’m completely stunned. Of course it …

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(Fixes typographical errors in paragraphs 1, 8) By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After months of delay, the Pentagon will select as soon as this week the defense company to design and build the Navy’s next stealth fighter, a U.S. official and two people familiar with the decision said, in what will be a multibillion-dollar effort …

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By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) -Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday that she and two of her ministers had been reported to the International Criminal Court for alleged complicity in genocide in connection with Israel’s offensive in Gaza. Speaking in an interview with state television broadcaster RAI, Meloni said Defence Minister Guido Crosetto …

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By Dominique Vidalon and Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS (Reuters) -France’s President Emmanuel Macron faced growing pressure on Tuesday to resign or hold a snap parliamentary election to end political chaos that has forced the resignation of five prime ministers in less than two years. The 47-year-old centrist president has repeatedly said he will see out his …

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