(Reuters) – Israel launched an attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar on Tuesday, expanding its campaign against the Palestinian militant group. Israeli officials told Reuters the strike was aimed at top Hamas leaders including Khalil al-Hayya, its exiled Gaza chief and top negotiator. Two Hamas sources told Reuters that Hamas officials in the ceasefire negotiating …
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PARIS (Reuters) -France’s minister for European affairs said on Tuesday that French military support for Ukraine would continue despite political turbulence in Paris, as France awaited the nomination of its fifth prime minister in less than two years. Benjamin Haddad, who has survived two prime ministers since being named as President Emmanuel Macron’s main interlocutor …
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By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union countries are split over how ambitious to make their new climate change target, putting into doubt plans to strike a deal next week, their latest compromise proposal showed on Tuesday. EU countries are negotiating a legally binding 2040 climate change target, which their ministers had planned to approve …
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YAROVA, Ukraine (Reuters) – A Russian airstrike killed 24 elderly people who were collecting pensions in a village in eastern Ukraine, officials said on Tuesday, prompting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to urge Kyiv’s allies to increase pressure on Moscow to end its war. Russian troops have pressed a grinding offensive across much of the eastern Donetsk …
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(Corrects paragraph 4 to show it was Paris police chief Laurent Nunez, not Retailleau, who could not rule out foreign interference) By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) – Pig heads appeared outside at least nine mosques in and around Paris on Tuesday, authorities said, with French President Emmanuel Macron’s name scrawled on five of them. Authorities …
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By Elissa Darwish PARIS (Reuters) – Benoit Vasselin has no problem saying he will take part in France’s “Block Everything” protests this week. But he won’t specify what he and fellow protesters will do when they pitch up outside a trade union HQ in the northern town of Lille early on Wednesday morning. The mystery …
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(Reuters) -Belarus, one of Russia’s closest allies, denounced a decision by the Czech Republic to expel one of its diplomats, branding it on Tuesday as groundless and unfriendly. The Belarusian announcement coincided with a statement by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk that authorities in Warsaw had arrested a Belarusian spy and would expel a diplomat …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland has arrested a Belarusian spy and will expel a diplomat who “supported the aggressive action of the Belarusian state against Poland”, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday on X, without providing any further details. Poland, a NATO and European Union member, has long had strained relations with neighbouring Belarus on a …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine has requested a new financing programme from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the war with Russia drags on, keeping military spending high, the prime minister said on Tuesday. Ukraine is spending about 60% of its total budget to fund the war effort and relies heavily on financial support from its …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Khalil Al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official targeted by Israel in Qatar on Tuesday, has become an increasingly central figure in the leadership of the Palestinian militant group since both Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar were killed last year. Israeli officials told Reuters the attack was aimed at top Hamas leaders …
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