By Rachael Levy (Reuters) – The father of a U.S.-Israeli hostage held in Gaza said on Saturday he remains hopeful his 21-year-old son was still alive after Hamas said it could not account for his status. Adi Alexander, whose son Edan was serving in the Israeli army when he was captured on October 7, 2023, …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Jaidaa Taha and Alexander Cornwell CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he had instructed the military to intensify pressure on Hamas after the Palestinian militant group this week rejected an Israeli proposal for another temporary truce, instead demanding a deal to end the war in exchange for the …
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By Lucy Papachristou (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a surprise one-day ceasefire in Ukraine on Saturday for Easter, but Kyiv said Russian forces continued artillery fire and called instead for an extended true halt to hostilities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia had rejected just such a proposal brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump …
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(Reuters) – Fighting continued in Russia’s border regions of Kursk and Belgorod despite President Vladimir Putin’s declaration of a Eastern ceasefire, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. “Kursk and Belgorod regions – Putin’s Easter statements did not spread to this territory,” Zelenskiy said in a social media post, referring to two Russian border regions where Ukrainian …
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran and the United States agreed on Saturday to begin drawing up a framework for a potential nuclear deal, Iran’s foreign minister said, after talks that a U.S. official described as yielding “very good progress.” U.S. President Donald Trump, who abandoned a 2015 nuclear pact between Tehran and world powers …
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ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) – A Russian court handed down a prison sentence of nearly three years to Darya Kozyreva, a young activist who used 19th-century poetry and graffiti to protest the conflict in Ukraine. A Reuters witness in the court on Friday said Kozyreva, 19, was found guilty of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army after …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union on Saturday reacted cautiously to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declaration of a unilateral 30-hour Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, saying Moscow could stop the war immediately if it wanted to. “Russia has a track record as an aggressor, so first we need to see any actual halt of the aggression …
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, (Reuters) – Ukraine and Russia conducted a swap of more than 500 prisoners of war on Saturday, the latest in a series of exchanges since Russia launched a full-scale invasion more than three years ago. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in a post on the Telegram messaging app, said 277 Ukrainian service personnel had returned …
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(Reuters) – Moscow’s troops have driven out Ukrainian forces from nearly all of Russia’s western Kursk region, Russia’s military chief Valery Gerasimov said on Saturday. “The bulk of the area where the invasion took place has now been cleared,” Gerasimov told President Vladimir Putin in a televised meeting. “It’s 1,260 square km, 99.5%.” Russia has …
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(Reuters) – The Barcelona Open delivered the perfect serve for inclusion in elite tennis on Friday by providing youngster Alessandra Bonomi the platform to become the first ball kid with Down’s syndrome to work unassisted in an ATP Tour match. Bonomi performed her duties impeccably during the men’s doubles quarter-finals at Andres Gimeno Court, drawing …
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