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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and James Mackenzie CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli airstrikes killed at least six Palestinians guarding aid trucks against looters, Hamas officials said on Friday, as the head of the United Nations warned that only a “teaspoon” of aid was getting in following Israel’s 11-week-long blockade. The Israeli military said 107 trucks carrying flour …

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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -Swiss authorities said on Sunday they were exploring whether to open a legal investigation into the activities of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organisation that plans to oversee aid distribution in the Palestinian enclave. The move comes after a Swiss NGO submitted a request for a probe into …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian troops advancing slowly on the eastern front of the war in Ukraine have captured two settlements in Donetsk region as well as one in Ukraine’s northern region of Sumy, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Saturday. Since their failed advance on the capital Kyiv in the first weeks of the war, …

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MOSCOW/CHERNIHIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russia and Ukraine each exchanged 307 of their service personnel on Saturday on the second day of an extended prisoner swap set to be the largest in the three-year war. U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested the swap could herald a new phase in stop-start efforts to negotiate a peace deal between …

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CANNES, France (Reuters) – French police were investigating a possible arson attack as being the main cause for a power outage which hit the Alpes-Maritimes region in southern France on Saturday, including Cannes which is hosting its world-famous annual film festival. “We are looking into the likelihood of a fire being started deliberately,” said a …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Mahmoud Issa CAIRO/GAZA CITY (Reuters) -Mervat Hijazi and her nine children didn’t eat at all on Thursday – save her underweight baby who had a sachet of peanut paste. “I’m so ashamed of myself for not being able to feed my children,” Hijazi told Reuters from their tent pitched amid the …

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