By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli gunfire and airstrikes killed at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, most of them near an aid site operated by the U.S- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the centre of the enclave, local health officials said. Medical officials at Shifa and Al-Quds hospitals said at least 25 …
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PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron said he would push for European Union regulation to ban social media for children under the age of 15 after a fatal stabbing at a school in eastern France, the latest such violent attack that left the country reeling. Macron said in an interview late on Tuesday that he …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine has brought home the bodies of 1,212 soldiers killed in the war with Russia, the Kyiv officials responsible for exchanging prisoners of war said on Wednesday. In Moscow, Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky said Ukraine for its part had returned 27 bodies of Russian soldiers. “As a result of the repatriation activities …, …
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MILAN (Reuters) -A group of 17 Palestinian children, including an 11-year-old boy who lost nine siblings in an Israel strike in Gaza last month, arrived in Italy on Wednesday for hospital treatment, accompanied by more than 50 family members. Adam Al-Najjar, who has multiple fractures, arrived with his mother at Milan’s Linate airport where he …
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ODESA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday Russia was determined to sow chaos in and destroy the south of his country as well as nearby Moldova and Romania, and called for increased pressure on Moscow to prevent further military threats. Zelenskiy, addressing a conference of southeast European leaders in the Black Sea …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -More than two dozen U.S. lawmakers are set to attend the Paris Airshow next week amid rising concerns about potential American aerospace tariffs and national security issues, lawmakers told Reuters. Senators Jerry Moran and Jeanne Shaheen will lead a previously unreported bipartisan delegation of 11 U.S. senators, including Senate Armed …
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By Clodagh Kilcoyne BALLYMENA, Northern Ireland (Reuters) -People in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena are in fear of their lives after a second night of rioting, police said on Wednesday, amid fears that the violence could spread across the British province. So far 32 officers have been injured after being bombarded with petrol bombs, …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in a phone call with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, agreed that a deal on the status of Gibraltar unlocked the opportunity for both countries to advance bilateral relationship, Starmer’s office said on Wednesday. “Prime Minister Sánchez congratulated the Prime Minister on his leadership,” a Downing Street spokesperson …
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By John Irish and Humeyra Pamuk PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is discouraging governments around the world from attending a U.N. conference next week on a possible two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians, according to a U.S. cable seen by Reuters. The diplomatic demarche, sent on Tuesday, says countries that take “anti-Israel …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that special attention in the country’s new arms programme should be paid to the nuclear triad – land-based, sea-based and aircraft-launched weapons. Putin’s remarks, broadcast on state television, were made at a meeting of senior officials devoted to the country’s arms industry. “Undoubtedly, special attention should …
