DUBLIN (Reuters) -An Irish police officer sustained non-life-threatening injuries following an unprovoked assault by a man in central Dublin on Tuesday, police said. The Irish Times said the officer suffered multiple stab wounds to his side when he and a colleague responded to reports of a man armed with a large knife. A spokesperson for …
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russian airstrikes on a prison and hospital in southeastern Ukraine killed at least 19 people, officials said on Tuesday, while U.S. President Donald Trump said he would start imposing punitive measures on Russia within 10 days if Moscow showed no progress toward ending its war in Ukraine. Sixteen of the people were …
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By Michelle Nichols, Olivia Le Poidevin, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Andrew MacAskill UNITED NATIONS/LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Tuesday it would recognise a Palestinian state unless Israel takes steps to relieve suffering in Gaza, where starvation is spreading, and reaches a ceasefire in the nearly two-year war with Hamas. The warning came after a hunger monitor …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Two members of the Bundeswehr armed forces were killed and one was missing after a helicopter crashed on Tuesday morning during a training flight near the eastern city of Leipzig, the defence ministry said, adding that the cause of the crash was still unknown. The helicopter, a leased aircraft operated by Helicopter Wing …
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By Andrew MacAskill and William James LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday Britain was prepared to recognise a Palestinian state in September at the United Nations General Assembly in response to growing public anger over the images of starving children in Gaza. Starmer spoke a day after talks in Scotland with …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Dutch government will summon Israel’s ambassador to the Netherlands to denounce the “unbearable and indefensible” situation in Gaza and it has imposed travel bans on two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers, the government said in a letter published late on Monday. Israeli government ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich will no longer be …
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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer did not discuss London’s plan to recognise a Palestinian state unless Israel takes a number of steps to improve life for Palestinians. Starmer said on Tuesday that Britain was prepared to recognise a Palestinian state in September at the …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon’s military tribunal has sentenced six people over the 2022 killing of an Irish peacekeeper in southern Lebanon, two judicial sources told Reuters on Tuesday, and a Lebanese security source said all six were members of Hezbollah. Hezbollah’s media office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The judicial sources said …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emma Farge (Reuters) -Palestinian health authorities say Israel’s ground and air campaign against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip has killed more than 60,000 people, with nearly a third of the dead under the age of 18. After a two-month ceasefire earlier this year, Israel resumed an all-out air and ground …
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By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -A U.N. war crimes court on Tuesday denied an application by Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, who is serving a life sentence for his role in the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, to be urgently released to Serbia on health grounds. In a decision published on the court’s …
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