DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran executed a man accused of spying for Israel, according to a report from state media on Wednesday that identified him as Babak Shahbazi. Entangled in a decades-long shadow war with Israel, Iran has put to death many individuals it accuses of having links with Israel’s Mossad intelligence service and facilitating its …
By Steven Scheer and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel unleashed a long-threatened ground assault on Gaza City on Tuesday, declaring “Gaza is burning” as Palestinians there described the most intense bombardment they had faced in two years of war. An Israel Defence Forces official said ground troops were moving deeper into the enclave’s main …
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(Reuters) – The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Tuesday its team at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine heard shelling close to the site and observed black smoke rising from three nearby locations. The team from the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog was informed that multiple artillery shells struck an area outside the …
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(Reuters) – The European Commission will propose speeding up the phase-out of Russian fossil imports, the European Union executive’s head Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday after a call with U.S. President Donald Trump. Von der Leyen said that she had a call with Trump on strengthening joint efforts to increase economic pressure on …
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By Janis Laizans TAURAGE, Lithuania (Reuters) -On the border with Russia, Lithuania’s Defence Ministry has launched the first of what will be nine schools around the country teaching children as young as 10 and adults how to fly, assemble, and programme drones. “It’s all about building military defensive capabilities, which Lithuania is taking very seriously, …
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By Anthony Deutsch and Tom Balmforth RIVNE, Ukraine/LONDON (Reuters) – U.S.-funded research has identified more than 210 sites where Ukrainian children have been taken for military training, drone manufacturing and other forced re-education by Russia, as part of a large-scale deportation programme. Yale’s School of Public Health said in a report published on Tuesday that …
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By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – Prominent Canadian Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland will leave cabinet and take on a new role as Canada’s special representative for Ukrainian reconstruction, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday. The move marks an end to Freeland’s 12-year domestic political career. At one point she had been tipped as a …
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By Jonathan Landay and Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s first U.S. weapons aid packages for Ukraine have been approved and could soon ship as Washington resumes sending arms to Kyiv – this time under a new financial agreement with allies – two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters. This is the …
MADRID (Reuters) -This summer was Spain’s hottest since records began in 1961, as the country experienced more than a month of heatwaves caused by climate change that helped stoke its worst season of wildfires in three decades. The summer of 2025 was 2.1 degrees Celsius warmer than the 1991-2020 average and surpassed the previous warmest …
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By Sergiy and Chalyi ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russian forces launched a large attack early on Tuesday on Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, killing a 41-year-old man, injuring at least 18 people and triggering a number of fires, the regional governor said. Ivan Fedorov said that two children were among the injured. Pictures posted by …
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