By Emily Rose, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jaidaa Taha JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into Gaza on Sunday as a standoff over the truce that has halted fighting for the past six weeks escalated, with Hamas calling on Egyptian and Qatari mediators to intervene. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said earlier …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Hamas will not agree to extend the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal as requested by Israel, a senior Hamas official said Sunday. Speaking to Al Jazeera, Mahmoud Mardawi said Hamas would only release the remaining Israeli hostages under the terms of the already agreed-upon phased deal. (Reporting by Ahmed Tolba …
WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish cybersecurity services have detected unauthorized access to the Polish Space Agency’s (POLSA) IT infrastructure, Minister for Digitalisation Krzysztof Gawkowski said on Sunday. “In connection with the incident, the systems under attack were secured … Intensive operational activities are also underway to identify who is behind the cyberattack,” Gawkowski wrote on social …
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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis remained stable through the day on Sunday and no longer required the use of mechanical ventilation to breathe, the Vatican said, in a sign of progress as the 88-year-old pontiff battles double pneumonia. Francis has been in Rome’s Gemelli hospital for more than two weeks. He was …
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(Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday that a halt in fighting could be a starting point for potential peace talks for Ukraine. “It would be very helpful if the bombing were to stop…That would also be the starting point for talks that can then continue,” Scholz told journalists after a meeting of …
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LONDON (Reuters) – NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that some European leaders had privately set out new plans on defence spending during a meeting in London, but he declined to give details, saying it was for individual leaders to set them out. “Today at the table I heard new announcements, and I’m not going …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Europe urgently needs to rearm and member states must be given the fiscal space to carry out a surge in defence spending, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday after a meeting about support for Ukraine. Von der Leyen added that Europe also needed to show the United States …
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By Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) -The parties in talks to form Germany’s new government are considering quickly setting up two special funds potentially worth hundreds of billions of euros, one for defence and a second for infrastructure, three people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Economists advising the parties that will likely form a …
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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -Members of Austria’s liberal Neos party on Sunday voted overwhelmingly in favour of a coalition deal with the conservative People’s Party (OVP) and Social Democrats (SPO), paving the way for their three-party government to take office. The vote was the last remaining obstacle to the planned alliance. The government is …
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ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish and British officials will discuss Syria’s future during a meeting in Ankara on Monday, with security, sanctions and economic development on the agenda, a Turkish foreign ministry source said on Sunday. NATO-member Turkey was a main backer of rebels who fought Bashar al-Assad for years and it has forged close ties …
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