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October 2 (Reuters) -Two people were killed on Thursday when a man drove a car into pedestrians and stabbed a security guard at a synagogue in England on the Jewish Yom Kippur holiday, British police said. Attacks against Jews and Jewish targets have risen worldwide since war erupted in Gaza in October 2023 following an …

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BERLIN (Reuters) -A judge in Germany ordered into pretrial detention three men suspected by prosecutors of being members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas and preparing attacks on Jewish targets in Germany, prosecutors said on Thursday. Prosecutors said they suspect the three men of being foreign operatives for Hamas and of being involved in procuring …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia on Thursday said that there was no Cold War with the West because it was now a “fiery” conflict, and that the European Union and the NATO military alliance were lying about alleged Moscow’s sabotage operations to justify vast military spending. The war in Ukraine, Europe’s deadliest since World War Two, has …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine has brought home 185 service personnel and 20 civilians in the latest prisoner swap with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday. “Most have been in captivity since 2022, and now they are finally home,” Zelenskiy said on the Telegram app, posting pictures of men wrapped in Ukrainian national blue and yellow …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli tanks blocked the main road to Gaza City on Thursday, preventing those who have left the besieged city from returning, and Defence Minister Israel Katz said it was now the last chance for hundreds of thousands of people still inside to escape. Israel has told the entire million-strong population …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union aims to double its financial support to Greenland, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday. “Europe and Greenland will always be each other’ trusted and reliable partners. We want to deepen our cooperation. That’s why we aim to double our financial support to Greenland,” she said in …

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ROME (Reuters) -Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticised an aid flotilla intercepted off Gaza by the Israeli military, saying on Thursday the activists’ mission and a strike called in their support in Italy would do nothing to help Palestinians. Israeli forces have boarded dozens of ships carrying hundreds of activists, including about 40 Italians, as …

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