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Critical medical supplies run out as cases of rare syndrome rise in Gaza, WHO says

29 Aug 2025

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization has run out of critical medical supplies in Gaza that it needs to treat a surge in cases of a rare paralysis-causing syndrome in the Palestinian enclave, the U.N. agency said on Friday.    There have been 94 documented cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome in Gaza …

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Signs of Chinese influence abound in Moscow before Putin’s Beijing visit

29 Aug 2025

By Nika Khutsieva MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Chinese business centre near a park featuring traditional Chinese pavilions, Russian adults learning Mandarin and practicing Kung fu, sizzling dishes being served in Chinese restaurants and car showrooms displaying Chinese vehicles. As President Vladimir Putin prepares for a visit to China next week, signs of Beijing’s influence in the …

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Israel recovers body of hostage Ilan Weiss from Gaza, PM’s office says

29 Aug 2025

(Reuters) -Israel has recovered the body of hostage Ilan Weiss from the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Friday. The remains of a second hostage, whose name had yet to be released for publication, were also retrieved, the statement added. Weiss, 55, a resident of Kibbutz Be’eri, in southern Israel, was kidnapped …

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Austria brings criminal case against ex-official accused of spying for Russia

29 Aug 2025

VIENNA (Reuters) -Former Austrian intelligence official Egisto Ott is facing a criminal case, accused of corruption and spying for Russia by supplying an encrypted laptop and leaking sensitive information for years, prosecutors said on Friday. Ott, who formerly worked for the now defunct Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism (BVT), which …

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Russia says Western proposals on Ukraine’s security are ‘one-sided’ and dangerous

29 Aug 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Friday that Western proposals on security guarantees for Ukraine would increase the risk of conflict between Moscow and the West by turning Kyiv into a “strategic provocateur” on Russia’s borders. Ukraine’s European allies are working to put together a set of guarantees for Ukraine that could be part of a …

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French trade unions to hold protests, strikes on September 18

29 Aug 2025

By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) -French unions will stage protests on September 18 against the government’s fiscal plans, a top union leader said on Friday, as the euro zone’s second biggest economy braces for a confidence vote called by the prime minister that he is likely to lose. Opposition parties have said they will bring …

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Largest flotilla for Gaza hopes to pressure Israel to end blockade

29 Aug 2025

By Leonardo Benassatto BARCELONA (Reuters) -Pro-Palestinian activists preparing to set sail from Spain on Sunday for Gaza in dozens of boats carrying aid have called on governments to pressure Israel to allow their flotilla – the largest to date – through the naval blockade. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and Portuguese left-wing politician Mariana Mortagua were …

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Italy’s Meloni ‘disgusted’ by websites targeting women amid outcry over online abuse

29 Aug 2025

MILAN (Reuters) -Italy’s Giorgia Meloni expressed outrage on Friday over an adult website that published unauthorised pictures of women, including of the prime minister, amid a national outcry over online misogyny and abuse. Administrators of the phica.eu website, whose name is a play on a vulgar Italian slang term for female genitalia, took it down …

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Russia condemns European move to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran over nuclear programme

29 Aug 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia on Friday condemned a decision by Britain, Germany and France to launch a process that could reimpose U.N. sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme, saying it was absurd to solely blame Tehran for the collapse of the 2015 nuclear accord. (Reporting by Dmitry Antonov; Writing by Lucy PapachristouEditing by Andrew Osborn)

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