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(Reuters) – Some global airlines have again halted their flights to and from Tel Aviv after a missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels towards Israel on May 4 landed near the country’s main international airport. Foreign airlines had begun to resume flights to Israel after a ceasefire deal with Palestinian militant group Hamas in January. …

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By Elias Marcou LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) – Black-winged white stilts wade through a salt pan, plunging their beaks into the water in search for food at the Kalloni bay on the Greek island of Lesbos, as bird-lovers watch through binoculars from afar. Stilts are one of more than 330 species found in the wetlands of …

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By Jonathan Spicer ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan has probably never held more global sway: he will host the first direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks in three years on Thursday, days after his country’s militant nemesis, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), dissolved. His growing capital as international statesman – working towards stability in Eastern Europe …

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By Andrew Mills and Dan Catchpole DOHA/SEATTLE (Reuters) – Boeing landed its biggest deal for widebody airplanes on Wednesday when state carrier Qatar Airways placed firm orders for 160 jetliners plus options to buy 50 more during President Donald Trump’s visit to the Gulf Arab country. The deal for Boeing 777X and 787 planes with …

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By Erin Banco, Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON/RIYADH/ANTALYA, Turkey (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior envoys Steve Witkoff and Keith Kellogg will travel to Istanbul for potential talks on Thursday on how to end the war in Ukraine, three sources familiar with the plans said on Tuesday. Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine …

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By Michelle Nichols and Daphne Psaledakis UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S.-backed humanitarian organization will start work in Gaza by the end of May under a heavily-criticized aid distribution plan, but has asked Israel to let the United Nations and others resume deliveries to Palestinians now until it is set up. No humanitarian assistance has been …

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By Erin Banco, Humeyra Pamuk and Daphne Psaledakis NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When President Donald Trump announced in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that he would lift all sanctions on Syria, the decision, which will boost a country devastated by 13 years of war, took many in the region by surprise. It also caught some in …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli military strikes killed at least 80 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities said, in an intensification of the bombardment as U.S. President Donald Trump visits the Middle East. Medics said most of the dead, including women and children, were killed in a barrage of Israeli …

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