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By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Maayan Lubell and Ahmed Shalaby CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Egypt has floated a new proposal aimed at restoring the Gaza ceasefire deal, security sources told Reuters on Monday, as Palestinian health authorities said Israeli strikes had killed at least 65 people in the enclave in the previous 24 hours. The proposal, made last …

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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -The U.S. government has alleged that Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian demonstrator Mahmoud Khalil withheld that he worked for a United Nations Palestinian relief agency in his visa application, saying that should be grounds for deportation. The U.N. agency known as UNRWA provides food and healthcare to Palestinian refugees and has …

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By Elizabeth Pineau and Clotaire Achi PARIS (Reuters) – Actor Gerard Depardieu went on trial on Monday over alleged sexual assaults on a film set, in a case that placed one of France’s best-known movie stars at the heart of the country’s broader reckoning over sexual violence. A towering figure of French cinema, Depardieu has …

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(Reuters) -A fire at a drone-hit oil depot in southern Russia raged for a fifth day on Monday, the regional administration said, as firefighters tried to contain the blaze at the facility that delivers Russian crude to the Caspian pipeline. Russia has accused Ukraine of being behind the drone attack on March 19, saying Kyiv …

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VITOSHA MOUNTAIN, Bulgaria (Reuters) – Blind Bulgarian ultramarathon runner Victor Asenov defied sleeplessness and exhaustion to repeatedly scale Vitosha mountain near Sofia non-stop for nearly two days last week, climbing the equivalent of the height of Mount Everest in one of the toughest challenges of its kind in the world. With his guide dog Taddy, …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commissioner for trade, Maros Sefcovic, is heading to Washington to meet U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday, a Commission spokesperson said on Monday. Sefcovic will also meet with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. The spokesperson added that Bjoern Seibert, the cabinet head for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, …

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