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Spain’s party island Ibiza also suffers housing crunch as rents soar

By Nacho Doce and David Latona SANT ANTONI DE PORTMANY, Spain (Reuters) -It’s another night, another party at a hotel in Ibiza. The international clientele dances to the house beat while laser lights reflect on the curvy swimming pool and on a sea of sunglasses worn after dark at the open-air venue. Many party-goers wear …

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Russia strikes on Kharkiv kill three, injure 17, Ukraine says

KHARKIV (Reuters) -A Russian air attack overnight on a residential area in Kharkiv killed three people, including a toddler, and injured 17, Ukrainian authorities said on Monday, as the United States presses Kyiv to take a quick deal to end a war Moscow started. A drone attack killed the two-year-old boy in Ukraine’s second-largest city …

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At least 20 killed, 134 people injured in blast at factory in Russia’s Ryazan region

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The death toll from an unexplained blast last week at a factory in Russia’s Ryazan region has jumped to at least 20, with another 134 people injured, emergency services said on Monday. Pavel Malkov, governor of the Ryazan region that lies just southeast of Moscow, said last Friday that the incident had been …

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Europeans to back Zelenskiy in Washington as Trump presses Ukraine deal

By Andrew MacAskill, Tom Balmforth and Max Hunder LONDON/KYIV (Reuters) -European leaders will join Volodymyr Zelenskiy to meet Donald Trump in Washington, they said on Sunday, seeking to shore up Zelenskiy’s position as the U.S. president presses Ukraine to accept a quick peace deal to end Europe’s deadliest war in 80 years. Trump is leaning …

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Outline emerges of Putin’s offer to end his war in Ukraine

By Tom Balmforth LONDON (Reuters) -Russia would relinquish tiny pockets of occupied Ukraine and Kyiv would cede swathes of its eastern land which Moscow has been unable to capture, under peace proposals discussed by Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at their Alaska summit, sources briefed on Moscow’s thinking said. The account emerged the day …

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Spain battles 20 major wildfires amid scorching heat, deploys more troops

By Guillermo Martinez and Ana Cantero VILLARDEVÓS (Reuters) -Scorching heat hampered efforts to contain 20 major wildfires across Spain on Sunday, prompting the government to deploy an additional 500 troops from the military emergency unit to support firefighting operations. In the northwestern region of Galicia, several fires have converged to form a large blaze, forcing …

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Israelis stage nationwide protests to demand end to Gaza war and release of hostages

By Lili Bayer TEL AVIV/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Thousands of Israelis took part in a nationwide strike on Sunday in support of families of hostages held in Gaza, calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach an agreement with Hamas to end the war and release the remaining captives. Demonstrators waved Israeli flags and carried photos of …

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NATO-like protection in focus for Trump meeting with Ukraine, Europe

By Trevor Hunnicutt and David Ljunggren (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump could offer NATO-like protection of Ukraine, and Russia is open to the idea, one of his top foreign policy officials said on Sunday ahead of a meeting with Ukraine and European leaders to hammer out details of possible security guarantees for Kyiv. “We were …

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Syria’s Sharaa hopes for Kurdish deal to prevent conflict

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) -Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has expressed hope that his country would avoid military conflict with U.S.-backed Kurdish forces if efforts to integrate their autonomous administration in northeast Syria into the state structure collapse. In remarks late on Saturday to senior figures from Idlib, where he has mustered loyalist forces, Sharaa …

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Zelenskiy says current front lines should be the start for negotiations

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, speaking in Brussels on Sunday, said the current front lines in his country’s war against Russia should be the basis for peace talks. “We need real negotiations, which means we can start where the front line is now,” Zelenskiy said, adding that European leaders supported this. Zelenskiy was speaking …

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