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Israeli government hits back as international pressure over Gaza mounts

28 May 2025

By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government hit back at growing international pressure over the war in Gaza on Wednesday, amid deepening signs of division over the war at home, 600 days after the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023. On Wednesday, Italy joined a growing list of European countries that …

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Russia proposes to hold next talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on June 2

28 May 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has proposed holding the next round of direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on June 2 with a view to achieving a sustainable peace settlement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. There was no immediate reaction from Kyiv. Under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to end the bloodiest conflict …

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German landlord Aroundtown looks to convert offices into data centres

28 May 2025

By Marleen Kaesebier (Reuters) -Aroundtown, one of the largest German-listed landlords, is planning to convert office spaces into data centres as demand for them grows in Europe, the group said on Wednesday after announcing it had tripled its first-quarter profit. Aroundtown has been facing higher vacancy rates in its office spaces, the biggest segment of …

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Who is Mohammad Sinwar, the Hamas chief in Gaza declared eliminated by Israel?

28 May 2025

By Nidal al-Mughrabi (Reuters) -Mohammad Sinwar, the elusive Hamas military chief in Gaza who Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday had been eliminated, has long been at the top of Israel’s most wanted list.         Sinwar was elevated to the top ranks of Hamas in 2024 after the death in combat of his brother Yahya, …

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Netanyahu says Hamas Gaza chief Mohammad Sinwar has been killed

28 May 2025

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Mohammad Sinwar, Hamas’ Gaza chief and the younger brother of the Palestinian militant group’s deceased leader and mastermind of the October 2023 attack, Yahya Sinwar, had been killed. Mohammad Sinwar had been the target of an Israeli strike on a hospital in southern …

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Seven dead as migrant boat capsizes near Canary Islands port

28 May 2025

MADRID (Reuters) -At least seven people died when a migrant boat capsized as rescuers were escorting it to port in Spain’s Canary Islands, regional emergency services said on Wednesday. The open-topped boat, which state broadcaster TVE said was laden with about 180 people, went down as it neared La Restinga harbour on El Hierro, the …

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Israeli forces kill third Palestinian in West Bank in 24 hours, Palestinian sources say

28 May 2025

By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the West Bank on Wednesday, the local health ministry said, the third reported killed by Israeli forces in 24 hours in the occupied territory where there has also been a new spate of settler attacks on Palestinian villages. The Palestinian Authority …

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Germany charges three with spying on Ukrainian in possible assassination plot

28 May 2025

BERLIN (Reuters) -German prosecutors have charged three people – a Ukrainian, a Russian and an Armenian – with foreign agent activity, on suspicion of spying on a Ukrainian man in Germany with the possible aim of killing him, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The target of the operation was a man who had taken part in …

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Gaza war testing Germany’s long unconditional commitment to Israel

28 May 2025

By Thomas Escritt and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) -A photograph of Zikim Beach in southwestern Israel near Gaza, attacked by Hamas militants in boats in both the 2014 and current Gaza wars, hangs on the wall of new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s office. The idyllic shot of a row of beach huts restored after the …

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Zelenskiy says Ukraine’s defence minister had call with Russian negotiator

28 May 2025

(Reuters) -Ukraine’s defence minister recently had a call with the head of the Russian delegation in the Istanbul talks, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday, in order to discuss the memorandum Moscow is currently working on laying out its conditions for any peace accord. Defence Minister Rustem Umerov led the Ukrainian delegation to the May …

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