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GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations agencies and Oxfam voiced grave concerns on Wednesday about food running out in northern Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of people are experiencing famine, after Israel closed the only operational crossing there last week. Israel began its long-expected ground assault on Gaza City in the north on Tuesday and is …

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By Laila Bassam and Emilie Madi BEIRUT (Reuters) -Zainab Mustarah once spent her days running an events planning firm in Beirut. But for the last year, she has been in and out of surgery to save the remnants of her right hand and both eyes, maimed when Israel detonated booby-trapped pagers in Lebanon. On September …

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo on Wednesday denounced the “unacceptable” conditions faced by Palestinians in Gaza, voicing solidarity with civilians and renewing his appeal for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas. “I express my deep closeness to the Palestinian people in Gaza, who continue to live in fear and survive in unacceptable …

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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark will acquire long-range precision weapons, after years of cuts to its military budget, to counter the threat posed to Europe by Russia, even as there was no immediate risk of attack to the Nordic country, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said.  Denmark this year boosted its military budget to address acute shortcomings in …

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By Erol Dogrudogan and Thomas Escritt SEHNDE, Germany (Reuters) – The main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann was released from a German prison on Wednesday after serving a seven-year sentence for an unrelated sex crime. German prosecutors first named Christian Brueckner as a suspect in 2020, when he was already …

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By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) – Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said two foreign laboratories had carried out tests on biological samples obtained from her husband that showed he was poisoned. Navalny died suddenly at the age of 47 on February 16, 2024, in a Russian prison in the …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission on Wednesday proposed suspending a trade arrangement affecting about 5.8 billion euros ($6.87 billion) of Israeli exports due to the Gaza war, although the measure does not currently have enough support among EU nations to pass. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas also proposed a package of sanctions on …

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