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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) – The top U.N. expert on Palestinian rights, Francesca Albanese, said Israel was trying to make Gaza City unliveable in its assault on the enclave’s largest urban area and was endangering the lives of Israeli hostages. “Israel is bombing using unconventional weapons … it is trying to forcibly evacuate …

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(This story has been corrected to update the number of people killed to 64,000 in paragraph 3, and to change the first name of the father to Abdrabuh Souliman, from Intesar Khouder, in paragraph 23) By Tony Colapinto and Alvise Armellini LAMPEDUSA, Italy (Reuters) – It took more than a year, several thousand dollars, ingenuity, …

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GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold an urgent debate in Geneva on Tuesday on Israel’s September 9 attack targeting Hamas leaders in Qatar, the Council said on Monday. The September 9 airstrike, which Hamas says killed five of its members but not its leadership, has prompted U.S.-allied Gulf Arab states …

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MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday said Israel and Russia should be banned from international sports competitions until “barbaric acts” end, referring to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Sanchez said he condemned the violent protests by pro-Palestinian on Sunday in Madrid which disrupted the La Vuelta cycling race and ultimately led …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Monday warned it would go after any European state that sought to take its assets after reports that the European Union is looking for new ways to leverage hundreds of billions of dollars of frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine. The U.S. and its allies prohibited transactions with the Russian …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Sunday that it had fired a Zircon (Tsirkon) hypersonic cruise missile at a target in the Barents Sea and that Sukoi Su-34 supersonic fighter-bombers had carried out strikes as part of joint military exercises with Belarus. Russia’s “Zapad”, or West, joint strategic exercise with Belarus began on Sept. 12 …

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By Dominique Vidalon, Leigh Thomas and Yoruk Bahceli PARIS (Reuters) – Fitch’s downgrade of France’s credit rating has cast a pall over newly installed Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu as he begins talks to draft a budget, while unions plan strikes over spending cuts and employers protest against the threat of tax hikes. Citing political instability …

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