By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A stranger in civilian clothing was outside Liron and Rakefet Eldor’s home as they returned from an evening walk in the Israeli port city of Haifa. He asked their surname and when they answered, the couple’s life was capsized. “He turned around and said, ‘Yes, it’s the Eldors’. Then …
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By Mohammed Salem RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) – Two stylised images of women wearing glamorous wedding dresses adorn the front of a tailoring workshop in Rafah, but the workers inside have switched to making diapers, one of the many necessities that have become impossible to find in wartime Gaza. With most of Gaza’s 2.3 million …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United States has proposed an alternative draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and opposing a major Israeli ground offensive in Rafah in southern Gaza, according to the text seen by Reuters on Monday. Washington has been averse to the …
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By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) -Norway has agreed to assist in the transfer of frozen tax funds earmarked for the Palestinian Authority (PA) that were collected by Israel, the Norwegian government said on Sunday, providing vital funding to the Western-backed entity. Under interim peace accords reached in the 1990s, Israel’s finance ministry collects tax on …
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By Samia Nakhoul, Jonathan Saul and Humeyra Pamuk DOHA (Reuters) – Israel expects to continue full-scale military operations in Gaza for another six to eight weeks as it prepares to mount a ground invasion of the enclave’s southernmost city of Rafah, four officials familiar with the strategy said. Military chiefs believe they can significantly damage …
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -More than 400 people have been detained at events across 32 Russian cities since the death of Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable opponent, according to rights group OVD-Info, as Russians continued to gather and lay flowers. It has been the largest wave of arrests at political events in Russia …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Some 900 tonnes of lithium batteries were on fire at a battery recycling plant in southern France, authorities said on Sunday, sending a cloud of thick black smoke into the sky above the site. The fire broke out on Saturday in a warehouse owned by French recycling group SNAM in Viviez, north …
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A visit by the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force to Baghdad has led to a pause in attacks on U.S. troops by Iran-aligned groups in Iraq, multiple Iranian and Iraqi sources told Reuters. Here’s a look at Iraq’s most influential Shi’ite parties and armed groups, who remain divided over how to …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The wife of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, needs to keep her husband’s voice alive, the widow of Alexander Litvinenko said on Saturday following the death of the prominent Kremlin critic. Russian authorities said 47-year-old Navalny fell unconscious and died on Friday after a walk at the “Polar Wolf” Arctic penal colony where …
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By Andrew Gray and Max Hunder MUNICH (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged allies at a global security conference on Saturday to plug an “artificial” shortage of weapons that is giving Russian forces the upper hand on the battlefield and said stalled U.S. aid was imperative. Addressing the gathering of politicians, diplomats and military officials …
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