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By Emily Rose JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel’s military assault on Iran has united much of the nation after a period of bitter divisions over the war in Gaza, transforming the political landscape overnight as even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s foes close ranks behind him. Most Israelis support using force to destroy Iran’s nuclear programme, polling shows, …

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By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) -Iran and Israel accused each other of endangering commercial activity in sea lanes around the Gulf and the Red Sea at the UN’s shipping agency on Wednesday, as their military conflict escalated. Iran’s delegation told a session of the International Maritime Organization’s security committee that Israel had in recent days …

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(Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to Brussels and The Hague from June 22 to 25 to attend the Canada-European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization summits, the prime minister’s office said in a statement on Wednesday. Carney will meet with EU presidents with the aim of deepening Canada’s relationship with the EU …

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Police will decide whether the Budapest Pride event can be held even though Budapest’s mayor has tried to circumvent a law by organising the march as a municipal event, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff said on Wednesday. The legal controversy comes after Budapest’s liberal mayor Gergely Karacsony announced on Monday that …

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VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria’s coalition government has agreed on a plan to enable police to monitor suspects’ secure messaging in order to thwart militant attacks, ending what security officials have said is a rare and dangerous blind spot for a European Union country. Because Austria lacks a legal framework for monitoring messaging services like WhatsApp, its …

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ROME (Reuters) -Late British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht will be recovered from the sea off the coast of northern Sicily this weekend, the company leading the salvage operation said on Wednesday. The 56-metre-long (184-foot) Bayesian was moored off the small port of Porticello, near Palermo, in August last year when it sank during …

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