By Jonathan Landay (Reuters) -Iran launched a missile at Israel on Thursday that scattered small bombs with the aim of increasing civilian casualties, the Israeli military and its Washington embassy said, the first reported use of cluster munitions in the seven-day-old war. “Today, the Iranian Armed Forces fired a missile that contained cluster submunitions at …
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By Alexander Cornwell, Parisa Hafezi, Tala Ramadan and Trevor Hunnicutt TEL AVIV/DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Israel bombed nuclear targets in Iran on Thursday and Iran fired missiles and drones at Israel after hitting an Israeli hospital overnight, as a week-old air war escalated with no sign yet of an exit strategy from either side. The White House …
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OSLO (Reuters) -A grenade was thrown at the residence of the Norwegian ambassador to Israel on Thursday evening in Tel Aviv, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said, causing no injury. “I spoke a short time ago with the Norwegian ambassador to Israel, Per Egil Selvaag, in whose yard a grenade was thrown this evening,” Saar …
(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Russia’s defence of Iran’s authorities underscored the need for intensified sanctions against Moscow. Zelenskiy said Russia’s deployment of Iranian-designed Shahed drones and North Korean munitions was proof that Kyiv’s allies were applying insufficient pressure against Moscow. “Now Russia is trying to save the Iranian nuclear programme. …
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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi on Thursday identified Isfahan, home to one of Iran’s biggest nuclear facilities, as the location of a uranium enrichment plant that Iran said it would soon open in retaliation for a diplomatic push against it. The day before Israel launched its military strikes against …
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(Reuters) -Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that the change or fall of Iran’s leadership was not a goal of Israel’s attacks but could be a result. “The matter of changing the regime or the fall of this regime is first and foremost a matter for the Iranian people. There is no substitute for …
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(Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday appointed Hennadiy Shapovalov as commander of Ukraine’s land forces, replacing a commander who resigned over a Russian strike on a training area. Shapovalov, whose appointment was announced in a presidential decree, had previously acted as a liaison at a NATO coordination centre in Germany. Before that, he had served …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) -Like thousands of other Palestinians in Gaza, Hind Al-Nawajha takes a dangerous, miles-long journey every day to try to get some food for her family, hoping she makes it back alive. Accompanied by her sister, Mazouza, the mother-of-four had to duck down and hide behind a pile of rubble on …
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By Giuseppe Fonte and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) -European Union budget rules are “stupid and senseless” and need to be changed to allow member states to boost defence spending as recommended by Brussels, Italian Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said on Thursday. The EU Commission has introduced flexibility clauses to allow more investment in security, but …
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By Inti Landauro, Aislinn Laing and David Latona MADRID (Reuters) -Spain has asked to opt out of NATO’s plan to increase members’ defence spending to 5% of their gross domestic product, a move that could derail a summit at which the military alliance plans to ask them to commit to the target. In a letter …
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