Author: Paula Andrés

Moscow has rushed reinforcement troops and military equipment to regions bordering Ukraine where Kyiv’s forces have staged a surprise incursion. The Russian government also implemented emergency security measures in the regions — Bryansk, Belgorod and Kursk. Russian tanks have taken up firing positions against Ukrainian mobile armored groups in the Kursk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said, according to a Tass report. The additional military supplies also include rocket launchers and aviation units, according to reports. The reports come after Moscow late Friday implemented “counterterrorism measures” in the Bryansk, Belgorod and Kursk regions following a cross-border raid by Ukrainian forces…

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Israel’s military attacked a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City early Saturday, killing around a hundred civilians, according to reports. Israel said it was targeting Hamas militants. “The death toll is now between 90 to 100, and there are dozens more wounded,” Mahmud Bassal, spokesperson for Gaza’s civil defense agency, told AFP. “Three Israeli rockets hit the school that was housing displaced Palestinians,” he was quoted as saying. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) acknowledged the attack, saying it struck an “active” Hamas command center, Israeli media reported. The IDF said the reported number of casualties appeared to be inflated.…

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After giving a speech from the symbolic Arc de Triomf in Barcelona and then evading a police dragnet, Carles Puigdemont has made it back to Belgium. “Today I’m in Waterloo after a few extremely difficult days,” he posted on X Friday night. The former president of Catalonia and figurehead of the region’s independence movement has been living in exile in Belgium since 2017. But earlier this week, he appeared in public in the Catalonian capital and then vanished before police could arrest him. Puigdemont chose to return on the day that the Catalan parliament was voting on Socialist Salvador Illa…

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