Gazans, Hamas see false equivalence in ICC charges
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - Gaza Strip residents criticised on Monday the International Criminal Court prosecutor's decision to seek the arrest of Hamas leaders, saying it falsely equated them with the Israeli leaders waging war in the P...
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UK says ICC arrest request for Israel's Netanyahu is unhelpful
LONDON (Reuters) - The ICC prosecutor's decision to request an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unhelpful, a spokesperson for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday. ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said after mor...
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Explainer-What happens after ICC prosecutor seeks warrants in Israel-Gaza conflict?
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court prosecutor's office has requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence chief, and also for three Hamas leaders for alleged war...
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ANC support grows in weeks before South African election, poll shows
By Bhargav Acharya JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Support for South Africa's governing African National Congress has risen in the weeks leading up to this month's election, a tracking poll showed, suggesting it may only need a small coalition partner or ...
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Putin appoints another economist as deputy Russian defence minister
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Monday appointed former deputy economy minister Oleg Savelyev as a deputy defence minister, according to a published decree, in a further sign of his intention to improve the efficiency of Russia's war...
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Israel reacts in fury as ICC prosecutor seeks Netanyahu arrest warrant
By Rami Amichay TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel reacted with fury on Monday to the request by the International Criminal Court prosecutor for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister over alleged war cr...
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Yellen to call for US, Europe to stand together on Russia, Iran
By David Lawder FRANKFURT (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will call on Tuesday for Europe and the U.S. to stand together against Russian aggression and Iranian "support for terrorism", including finding a way forward to unlock the ...
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Hamas' Qatar-based leader Haniyeh named in ICC warrant request
By Samia Nakhoul and Stephen Farrell DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader based in Qatar, has been the tough-talking face of the Palestinian group's international diplomacy as war has raged back in Gaza, where three of his sons...
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ICC prosecutor's move against Netanyahu and Gallant is 'scandalous', Israeli minister says
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's foreign minister said on Monday a request by the International Criminal Court prosecutor for arrest warrants for Israel's prime minister and defence minister was "scandalous" and tantamount to attacking the victims o...
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US Supreme Court spurns former Guantanamo Bay detainee's appeal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a Canadian former Guantanamo Bay detainee's bid to vacate his convictions for the 2002 murder of an American soldier in Afghanistan and other crimes he committed at age 15 to which...
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Secretive Hamas military chief masterminded Oct 7 strike on Israel
By Samia Nakhoul and Laila Bassam DUBAI(Reuters) - Hamas' elusive military leader Mohammed Deif, one of the masterminds behind what Israel called its 9/11 moment, rarely speaks and never appears in public, a secretive existence that helped him surv...
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Nigerian judge denies separatist leader Kanu bail for the second time
By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian judge denied separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu bail for the second time in two months on Monday and also dismissed his application to be moved to prison from custody of the Department of State Services (DSS...
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Crashed ship that took down Baltimore bridge refloated, towed from channel
(Reuters) - Recovery teams refloated a huge cargo vessel impeding shipping in the Port of Baltimore early on Monday and began pulling it free of the main channel, two months after the boat crashed into the Francis Scott Key bridge and caused the sp...
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More than a third of Italian teens want to emigrate, survey finds
ROME (Reuters) - More than a third of Italian teenagers want to emigrate when they are older, according to a survey by national statistics institute Istat which also found that young people have become more anxious about the future. The findings ad...
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ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Israeli PM, defence chief and 3 Hamas leaders
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The International Criminal Court prosecutor's office said on Monday it had requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence chief and three Hamas leaders for alleged war crimes. Prosecutor Karim ...
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ICC prosecutor's request for arrest warrants for Israel, Hamas leaders
(Reuters) - Following are key details from the statement by Karim Khan, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, on his request for arrest warrants for the leaders of Israel and Hamas: In a statement, Khan said that based on evidence e...
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Trump has the chance to testify at hush money trial - if he so chooses
By Jack Queen, Luc Cohen, Jody Godoy and Andy Sullivan NEW YORK (Reuters) - For weeks, Donald Trump has sat silently in a New York courtroom while former employees and associates have testified in his criminal hush money trial. On Monday, the forme...
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Russia stresses strong ties with Iran as Putin calls interim president
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin phoned Iran's new interim president on Monday as Moscow made clear its desire to preserve and build on its deepening relationship with Tehran despite the sudden death of President Ebrahim Raisi. T...
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International Criminal Court prosecutor statement on arrest warrants for Hamas, Israeli leaders
(Reuters) - Following is the statement from Karim Khan, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, on arrest warrants over the war in Gaza. Today I am filing applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber I of the Internati...
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Family in remote Himalayas gets own polling station for Indian election
By Sharafat Ali WARSHI, India (Reuters) - Five people from one family in a remote Himalayan village voted in India's election in their own polling station on Monday after officials travelled for seven hours and borrowed a power connection from the ...
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Wikileaks' Julian Assange given permission to appeal against U.S. extradition
LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange's battle to avoid extradition to the United States received a huge boost on Monday when London's High Court ruled that U.S. assurances over his case were unsatisfactory and he would get a full ap...
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Factbox-Key facts about Israel Defence Minister Yoav Gallant
(Reuters) - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday said he had requested arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes in Gaza. Here are some facts a...
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Threat from Israeli operations preventing Rafah crossing aid deliveries, says Egypt
(Reuters) - The cessation of aid deliveries through the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip is connected to the threat posed to humanitarian work by Israel's military operation in the area, Egypt's foreign minister said on Monday. "Now ...
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Reactions to ICC decision on Israeli and Hamas leaders
(Reuters) - The International Criminal Court prosecutor's office said on Monday said it had requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence minister and three Hamas leaders for alleged war crimes. Here are some ...
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Hungary detains captain of cruise ship involved in Danube collision
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary has detained the captain of a Swiss-based cruise ship involved in a collision with a small motor boat on the Danube River late on Saturday that killed two people, with five others still missing, police said on Monday. T...
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