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By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu finalised coalition deals with allied parties, their spokespeople said on Wednesday, in final steps toward his political comeback at the head of one of the most right-wing governments in Israel’s history. Netanyahu, whose bloc of nationalist and religious parties won a clear election victory last …

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PRISTINA (Reuters) – Kosovo closed its biggest border crossing on Wednesday after protesters blocked it on the Serbian side to support their ethnic kin in Kosovo in refusing to recognise the country’s independence. With two other crossings on the Serbian border closed by similar protests on their Kosovar sides since Dec. 10, only three entry …

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By Alexander Villegas AYACUCHO, Peru (Reuters) – Edgar Prado, 51, a mechanic and driver from the city of Ayacucho in southern Peru, spent most of the day on Dec. 15 in his garage tinkering on his white Toyota Hilux pickup, even as protests began to build in the airport just a block away. At 5.56 …

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(Refiles to add dropped word “with” in paragraph 1) (Reuters) – A court in military-ruled Myanmar will deliver its final verdicts in cases against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday, said a source familiar with her trials, wrapping up marathon proceedings that have been condemned in the West as a sham. Suu Kyi, …

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By Andre Romani and Gabriel Stargardter BRASILIA (Reuters) – A man arrested for attempting to set off a bomb in protest against Brazil’s election result was inspired to build up an arsenal by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s call to arms, according to a copy of his police testimony seen by Reuters. George Washington de Oliveira …

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By Mathieu Rosemain PARIS (Reuters) – The man suspected of shooting dead three Kurdish people in Paris last week has been placed under formal investigation, the city prosecutor’s office said on Monday. The 69-year-old man, whose name hasn’t been disclosed, was arrested on Friday after two men and a woman were shot dead at a …

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KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian strike on Ukraine’s recently recaptured city of Kherson killed at least 10 people, wounded 58 and left bloodied corpses on the road, authorities said, in what Kyiv condemned as wanton killing for pleasure. A pro-Moscow official responded by saying Ukrainian forces had launched the attack in a bid to blame the …

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