GAZA CITY (Reuters) -An Israeli strike on Gaza’s sole Catholic Church killed three people and injured several others, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which oversees the small parish, said on Thursday. The Patriarchate condemned “this targeting of innocent civilians and of a sacred place,” saying two women and one man had died in the attack …
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(Reuters) -A Russian crew member of a Greek cargo ship sunk by Houthi militants is undergoing treatment in Yemen, Russia’s state RIA news agency said on Thursday, quoting a source. RIA identified the Russian mariner as Aleksei Galaktionov, one of several crew members picked up by the Yemeni navy after the ship was sunk. It …
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By Sabine Siebold WIESBADEN, Germany (Reuters) -Ukraine will let foreign arms companies test out their latest weapons on the front line of its war against Russia’s invasion, Kyiv’s state-backed arms investment and procurement group Brave1 said on Thursday. Under the “Test in Ukraine” scheme, companies would send their products to Ukraine, give some online training …
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By Anait Miridzhanian and Ngouda Dione DAKAR (Reuters) -France handed over control of its last major military facility in Senegal on Thursday, marking the end of its armed forces’ long presence in the West African country and a milestone in a withdrawal from the wider region. The commander of French forces in Africa, General Pascal …
By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Iraqi Kurdistan will resume oil exports through a pipeline to Turkey after a two-year halt, Iraq’s federal government said on Thursday despite a fourth day of drone attacks that have shut down half of the region’s output. The semi-autonomous region did not confirm the export plan, but Baghdad and Erbil …
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Iceland will launch talks on a security and defence partnership with the European Union, Icelandic Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir said on Thursday at a joint press conference with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Keflavik. Frostadottir said she was hoping to conclude talks by the end of the year. “This is …
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ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek police have arrested five people over the killing of a University of California at Berkeley professor who was shot dead in an Athens suburb earlier in July, police said. The professor’s ex-wife, who has denied any wrongdoing, her Greek partner, and three other people – one Bulgarian and two Albanian nationals – …
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) -Slovenia declared two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, persona non grata on Thursday, the first European Union country to do so, Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon said. The government accused Israel’s national security minister Ben-Gvir and finance minister Smotrich – both West Bank settlers – of making “genocidal statements” and …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain set out its plan to invest 1 billion pounds ($1.34 billion) in computing infrastructure to drive the development of artificial intelligence, which will increase its public compute capacity 20 fold over the next five years. The race to develop AI is intensifying, with the United States, China and India emerging as front …
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By Sarah Marsh and Elizabeth Piper STEVENAGE, England (Reuters) -Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz hailed a major treaty to deepen ties in areas ranging from defence to immigration on Thursday, the latest step in Britain’s push to reset UK relations with the European Union. On his first trip to London as …
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