BELGRADE (Reuters) – Eight people died and seven were injured in a fire at a nursing home outside Belgrade on Monday which authorities said was caused by arson, Serbian state TV RTS reported. The fire started at 3.30 a.m. (0230 GMT) with 30 people in the home, RTS reported, quoting the head of the government’s …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France will keep fighting to obtain the release of the two French-Israeli nationals held by Hamas, foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot told BFM TV on Monday. “We will continue to fight until the last hour for their release,” Barrot told BFM TV, adding France had “no news on their health status nor on …
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By Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) – A Russian disinformation campaign is seeking to boost the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), undermine mainstream German parties and sow worries about the economy ahead of the country’s Feb. 23 election, a think-tank has found. German think-tank CeMAS said it had tracked down hundreds of German-language posts on social …
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By Miro Mamman and Avi Ohayon TEL AVIV/SDEROT, Israel (Reuters) -Thousands of Israelis gathered in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, some cheering and some in tears, as a giant television screen broadcast the first glimpse of the first three hostages to be released under the Gaza ceasefire deal. They watched as the three women – …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Israeli prison service said early on Monday that 90 Palestinian prisoners have been released as part of the hostages for prisoners swap deal between Israel and Hamas. (Reporting by Nidal Al Mughrabi; editing by Diane Craft)
By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Sunday criticized President-elect Donald Trump’s reported plan to sharply intensify immigration enforcement actions across the U.S. in the days after his inauguration. In an Italian television interview, the pontiff said it would be a “disgrace” if Trump went forward with the plan, in unusually forceful …
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MADRID (Reuters) – A ski lift collapsed at a resort in the Spanish region of Aragon on Saturday, injuring dozens of people, nine of them very seriously and eight seriously, the regional government said. Around 80 people remain trapped, hanging in the chairlift at the ski resort of Astun, in the province of Huesca, according …
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(Reuters) -Here are the main elements of a Gaza ceasefire deal that went into effect on Sunday after 15 months of conflict that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and inflamed the Middle East. The start of the ceasefire was delayed for almost three hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Hamas to …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who is tipped to be Germany’s next chancellor, has vowed to build 50 gas-fired power plants if his conservatives win the Feb. 23 snap election, the t-online news outlet reported on Sunday. “We need to build 50 gas-fired power plants in Germany as quickly as possible, which will …
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By Alexander Cornwell and Nidal al-Mughrabi TEL AVIV/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel approved a ceasefire deal with Palestinian militant group Hamas on Saturday that involves releasing hostages in the Gaza Strip, and Israeli forces carried out new attacks in the enclave before the agreement’s scheduled start on Sunday. The three-phased agreement is set to halt a 15-month-old …
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