PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday the United States’ decision not to grant visas to Palestinian officials for the upcoming United Nations General Assembly in New York was “unacceptable” and should be reversed. “We call for this measure to be reversed and for Palestinian representation to be ensured in accordance with the …
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By Emily Rose, Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of reservists began to report for duty on Tuesday for a new Israeli offensive to seize Gaza City, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to accelerate despite warnings from senior ranks. Palestinian health authorities said further Israeli airstrikes and shelling across the …
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PARIS (Reuters) -French investigating judges have issued arrest warrants for seven former top Syrian officials, including ex-President Bashar al-Assad, for the bombing of a press centre in Homs in 2012, a judicial source and a human rights organisation said on Tuesday. Homs, in western Syria, was a major rebel stronghold during the Syrian civil war …
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(Reuters) -Ukraine will never agree to legalise the Russian occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and an immediate withdrawal of Russian troops is the only way to guarantee safety there, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. A ministry statement made no direct reference to Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s statement during a visit to …
By Kate Holton and Ben Makori LONDON (Reuters) -The recognition of a Palestinian state by leading Western nations will trigger a sprint towards a two-state solution, the head of the Palestinian mission in London said on Tuesday. Britain, France, Canada, Australia and Belgium have all said they will recognise a Palestinian state at the United …
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -France has demanded that negotiations on the European Union’s new climate change target are escalated to national leaders, diplomats said on Tuesday, a move that could delay a deal on the 2040 emissions goal. EU countries are negotiating a legally binding 2040 climate change target, which their ministers had planned …
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PARIS (Reuters) -Five people including a hotel manager and the manager’s son were stabbed at a hotel in the southern French city of Marseille on Tuesday and one was in critical condition, the city’s prosecutor said. The Tunisian attacker, who had two knives and a crowbar, died after being shot by police, prosecutor Nicolas Bessone …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish police apprehended nine people on Tuesday on suspicion of gross insider stock market trading in 2024 and 2025 ahead of the publication of takeover offers for two companies listed on the Stockholm bourse, the Economic Crime Authority said. The suspected insider trades were made in the shares of Tethys Oil, which was …
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By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -A federal court in Argentina ordered house arrest for the daughter of a former Nazi official and her husband after a raid failed to locate an iconic painting stolen decades ago by the Nazis. In an incident that captivated Argentina last week, authorities raided a home in the coastal …
By Dan Peleschuk LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukrainians paid tribute to prominent politician Andriy Parubiy as he was buried on Tuesday after being gunned down in a daytime attack on Saturday, the second assassination in the western city of Lviv in just over a year. As mourners streamed across cobblestone streets, the motives behind the killing …
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