GAZA CITY (Reuters) -A boy’s lilting song filled the tent in Gaza City, above an instrumental melody and backing singers’ quiet harmonies, soft music that floated into streets these days more attuned to the deadly beat of bombs and bullets. The young students were taking part in a lesson given on August 4 by teachers …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British output per hour worked in the three months to June was 0.8% lower than a year earlier, the steepest annual decline since the third quarter of 2024, official figures showed on Thursday. Weak productivity growth has been a problem for Britain and many other Western economies for years and has become somewhat …
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BELGRADE (Reuters) -Supporters of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) threw flares and firecrackers at anti-government protesters in Novi Sad on Wednesday evening, prompting police to intervene to end the standoff, a major escalation of nine-month-long protests in Serbia. Daily protests countrywide in Serbia, following the deaths of 16 people, killed when a roof on …
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -One person has died and five others were injured after a hot air balloon crash-landed late on Wednesday evening in a meadow in Friesland, a province in the north of the Netherlands, local authorities said. The balloon was carrying 34 passengers. “The hot air balloon came down quickly around 9 p.m. and hit …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s defence ministry said on Thursday that its forces had struck a number of Ukrainian missile plants, weapons design bureaus and rocket fuel productions enterprises with missiles and drones in July. Russian forces destroyed a number of Western missile defence systems – including Patriot launchers and fire control radar in the Dnipropetrovsk and …
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Fallen debris from Ukrainian drones caused a fire at an oil refinery in Russia’s Volgograd, the governor said on Thursday. “Firefighters quickly began extinguishing the fire. According to preliminary data, there were no casualties,” Andrey Bocharov said on the Telegram. Lukoil, an owner of the refinery, has not yet responded for a Reuters …
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PATRAS, Greece,/MADRID (Reuters) -Wildfires caused by arsonists or thunderstorms and fanned by a heatwave and strong winds wreaked destruction across southern Europe on Wednesday, burning homes and forcing thousands of residents and tourists to flee. Fire has affected nearly 440,000 hectares (1,700 square miles) in the eurozone so far in 2025, double the average for …
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PATRAS, Greece (Reuters) -Firefighters battled multiple wildfires across Greece on Wednesday, including blazes threatening villages and towns near the western city of Patras and on two tourist islands. Fires have burned houses, farms and factories and prompted the evacuation of thousands of residents and tourists since Tuesday. Dozens of people have been taken to hospital …
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By Andrea Shalal, Thomas Escritt and Tom Balmforth WASHINGTON/BERLIN (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump threatened “severe consequences” if Russia’s Vladimir Putin does not agree to peace in Ukraine but also said on Wednesday that a meeting between them could swiftly be followed by a second that would include the leader of Ukraine. Trump did not …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers divert international aid by force and other means, block minority communities from receiving aid and may collude with U.N. officials to seek kickbacks, a U.S. watchdog said on Tuesday. The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said its findings were based on input from nearly 90 current and …
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