By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel inflicted serious damage on Hamas with airstrikes this week that killed its Gaza government chief and other top officials, but Palestinian and Israeli sources say the group has shown it can absorb major losses and still fight and govern. After its main Gaza chief Yahya …
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(Reuters) – Thirteen people including a former government minister were remanded in custody for 30 days in North Macedonia on Friday over a nightclub blaze, believed to have been caused by pyrotechnics, that killed 59 people including six minors. The incident, in which another 197 people were injured, has shattered Kocani, a town of 25,000 …
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(Reuters) -Britain’s Heathrow Airport, a major global travel hub, said it would be closed for all of Friday after a huge fire at a nearby electrical substation wiped out its power, disrupting flight schedules around the world. Here are some facts about the world’s fourth-busiest international airport: KEY NUMBERS: — Heathrow serves more than 230 …
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By Daren Butler DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – The detention of Istanbul’s popular mayor risks undermining Turkey’s move to end the PKK militant group’s 40-year-old insurgency – a plan relying heavily on the government’s nascent, delicate cooperation with the pro-Kurdish DEM Party. Many Kurds worry that the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu – President Tayyip …
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By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel has warned that its latest onslaught in Gaza is “just the beginning” as its forces pound the enclave with deadly airstrikes and launch new ground operations. But a return to a full-scale ground war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas could prove more complicated amid waning public support, exhausted …
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By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Tom Cruise takes on what may be his final “Mission: Impossible,” a new Superman will wear the red cape, and the record-setting “Avatar” sci-fi series will return to movie theaters this year. Those films and more are giving cinema operators hope that the long recovery from the COVID-19 …
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(Reuters) – A group of eight Democratic Senators on Friday accused the Trump administration of abusing the country’s immigration laws in arresting Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil over his participation in pro-Palestinian protests. In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the senators led by Peter Welch of …
By Carlos Ramirez SAN ANTONIO DEL TACHIRA, Venezuela (Reuters) – A Colombian-Venezuelan migrant deported from the U.S. over the weekend and being held in a high-security prison in El Salvador has no criminal record or ties to a Venezuelan gang and his rights are being violated, his wife said on Thursday. President Donald Trump’s administration …
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(Reuters) -Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Tehran does not need proxies in the region and that Yemen’s Houthis, who are among the groups in the Middle East that Iran is aligned with, act on their own motivations. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would hold Iran responsible for …
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By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Tom Little NUUK, Greenland (Reuters) – Ivik Knudssen-Ostermann, whose company runs boat tours to see Greenland’s glittering blue icebergs, says his bank has told him to expand ahead of an expected influx of tourists after U.S. President Donald Trump put the island in the global spotlight. Trump’s comments, coupled with the …
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