By Kanishka Singh and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday it would probably be known in 24 hours whether the Palestinian militant group Hamas has agreed to accept what he has called a “final proposal” for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza. The president also said he had spoken to Saudi …
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By Gram Slattery, Dan Peleschuk and Dmitry Antonov WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said early on Friday he came away disappointed from a telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin because it does not appear the latter is looking to stop Russia’s war against Ukraine. U.S. attempts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine through …
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(Reuters) -Ukraine launched a drone attack on the Sergiyev Posad district near Moscow early on Friday, injuring one person and damaging power infrastructure, the head of the district said. “I ask everyone to remain calm, not to approach the windows, not to photograph the work of the air defence,” Oksana Yerokhanova wrote in a post …
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By David Latona SEVILLE, Spain (Reuters) -When over 1,000 civil society representatives flocked to Seville this week for a U.N. conference on development financing their expectations were already low, but the four-day event left many frustrated and feeling their voices were stifled. The once-in-a-decade summit promised to marshall resources that could narrow the estimated $4.3 …
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By Sergiy Karazy KYIV (Reuters) -The death of an experienced Ukrainian F-16 fighter pilot in battle against Russian drones shows the high-risk tactics Kyiv will increasingly adopt if it is unable to obtain critical new air defences, a senior commander said on Thursday. Dozens of people have been killed during intensifying Russian air strikes on …
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By Lili Bayer BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Moldova wants to start membership negotiations with the European Union in earnest before a September election to counter Russian disinformation in the country about the EU, Deputy Prime Minister Cristina Gherasimov said. Both Moldova and neighbouring Ukraine – which is fighting a more than three-year-old Russian invasion – formally began …
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By Anastasiia Malenko KYIV (Reuters) -When Ukrainian Leniie Umerova crossed into Russia on her way to see her ailing father in their native Crimea in late 2022, she was detained and forced to endure what she calls a “carousel” of charges and prison transfers that lasted nearly two years. The ordeal, which included stints in …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Hamas is seeking guarantees that a new U.S.-backed ceasefire proposal for Gaza would lead to the war’s end, a source close to the militant group said on Thursday, as medics said Israeli strikes across the territory had killed scores more people. Israeli officials said prospects for reaching a ceasefire and …
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By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending bill earmarks more than $8.6 billion to increase the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker fleet in the Arctic, where Washington hopes to counter rising Russian and Chinese dominance. The funding includes $4.3 billion for up to three new heavy Coast Guard Polar Security …
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By Janis Laizans NIR OZ, Israel (Reuters) -Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Israel’s Nir Oz kibbutz near the Gaza Strip on Thursday for the first time since Hamas militants penetrated the border and killed or kidnapped nearly one in four residents nearly 21 months ago. Facing scrutiny over his government’s failure to prevent the assault …
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