By Ammar Awad and Suleiman Al-Khalidi MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (Reuters) – For many of the Druze community in the Golan Heights mourning 12 youngsters killed in a missile strike at the weekend, the carnage came as a shock despite the months of daily rocket fire and air strikes between Israel and southern Lebanon. Even …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Monday its forces successfully destroyed one Iranian-backed Houthi uncrewed aerial vehicle in a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen in the past 24 hours. “It was determined this weapon presented an imminent threat to U.S. coalition forces, and merchant vessels in the region,” CENTCOM’s statement added. (Reporting by …
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By Lisa Barrington (Reuters) -Flights to and from Beirut airport were cancelled or delayed on Monday as tensions escalated between Israel and armed political group Hezbollah after a strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 children and teenagers. Lufthansa, Swiss and Eurowings of the Lufthansa Group have decided to suspend their flights from and …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Notorious Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was “forcibly kidnapped” by a son of his former partner Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who brought him to the United States where both men are detained, Zambada’s defense lawyer said on Saturday. Frank Perez, Zambada’s lawyer, said El Chapo’s son …
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By Simon Lewis TOKYO (Reuters) -The United States has serious concerns that results announced by Venezuela’s electoral authority declaring President Nicolas Maduro had won a third term, do not reflect the votes of the people, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday. Just minutes after the authority said Maduro had won the presidential …
By Simon Lewis, Kanishka Singh and Andrea Shalal TOKYO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Sunday blamed Lebanon-based Hezbollah for a rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 children and teenagers on a football field while raising the threat of a wider war in the Middle East. Israel also blamed Hezbollah and said …
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CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelans waited in line at polling stations and cast ballots on Sunday in the most consequential election in a quarter-century of socialist party rule, with President Nicolas Maduro confident of victory even as the opposition has attracted impassioned support and warned of possible irregularities. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has been the …
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By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader formally endorsed Masoud Pezeshkian as the country’s president on Sunday, after he won an election this month by pledging a pragmatic foreign policy and easing repression at home. Pezeshkian, a relative moderate who will be sworn in on Tuesday, is taking office at a time of …
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By David Ljunggren and Anna Mehler Paperny (Reuters) -A massive wildfire that destroyed about a third of the western Canadian tourist town of Jasper is still out of control but rain and cooler conditions are helping firefighters, authorities said on Friday. Jasper, located in the middle of Alberta’s picturesque Jasper National Park, is a major …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Saturday condemned a missile attack on a Druze village in northern Israel, calling the strike, which killed 11 people, including children, on a soccer pitch “horrific.” Israeli authorities blamed Hezbollah for the attack and vowed to respond against the Iran-backed Lebanese group, though Hezbollah denied any responsibility. “Our …
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