PARIS (Reuters) -France’s Cour de Cassation, the country’s highest court, ruled on Friday that a warrant issued for former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was invalid.
(Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten, Charlotte Van Campenhout, Writing by Makini Brice)
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JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump appeared on Friday to abandon Gaza ceasefire negotiations with Palestinian militant group Hamas, a day after withdrawing their delegations from talks.
Netanyahu said Israel was now considering “alternative” options to achieve its goals of bringing its hostages home from Gaza and ending the rule of Hamas in the territory. Trump said Hamas did not want to make a deal and he believed the…
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said Palestinian militant group Hamas did not want to make a deal on a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza.
Trump made the comments to reporters at the White House one day after his Middle East peace envoy, Steve Witkoff, said the Trump administration had decided to bring its negotiating team home for consultations following Hamas’ latest proposal.
(Reporting by Steve Holland; Writing by Ryan Patrick Jones, Editing by William…
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Israel will allow foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza starting on Friday, Israeli army radio quoted a military official as saying.
An Israeli military spokesperson did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment on the report.
The Gaza health ministry says more than 100 people have died from starvation in the Palestinian enclave since Israel cut off supplies to the territory in March.
Israel, which has been at war with the Palestinian militant group Hamas…
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Iranian diplomats met counterparts from Germany, Britain and France on Friday for renewed nuclear talks, amid warnings that the three European powers could trigger “snapback” sanctions outlined under the 2015 deal.
The meeting in Istanbul was the first since Israel’s mid-June attack on Iran, which sparked a 12-day war and targeted key nuclear and military sites.
The European diplomats were seen leaving the Iranian consulate in the city, the venue for the talks, shortly before 2:00 pm (1100…
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Iranian diplomats said they held “frank and detailed” nuclear talks on Friday with counterparts from Germany, Britain and France, who have threatened to trigger sanctions if Tehran fails to agree a deal on uranium enrichment and cooperation with UN inspectors.
The meeting in Istanbul was the first since Israel launched an attack on Iran last month targeting key nuclear and military sites, sparking a 12-day war and leading Tehran to pull away from working with the UN watchdog.
The European…
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In an unprecedented joint appeal, four of the world’s leading news agencies have warned that their Palestinian journalists in Gaza are now facing death by Israel’s policy of mass starvation.
The BBC, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Reuters and the Associated Press issued a statement on Wednesday declaring they are “desperately concerned” for their local journalists in Gaza, who are now struggling to survive amid a total collapse of access to food, clean water…
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany is not planning to recognise a Palestinian state in the short term and said its priority now is to make “long-overdue progress” towards a two-state solution, a German government spokesperson said on Friday.
“Israel’s security is of paramount importance to the German government,” said the spokesperson. “The German government therefore has no plans to recognise a Palestinian state in the short term.”
France’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state at the United…
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The United Nationd rights chief on Friday slammed Britain’s ban on activist group Palestine Action as a “disturbing” misuse of UK counter-terrorism legislation and urged the government to rescind its move.
“The decision appears disproportionate and unnecessary,” Volker Turk said in a statement.
The ban, introduced under Britain’s Terrorism Act 2000, took effect earlier this month after activists from the group broke into an air force base in southern England.
Two aircraft were sprayed with red…
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