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Amina Ismail

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@Reuters European Migration Correspondent based in Brussels. Formerly in Iraq & Egypt. RTs are not endorsements

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US midterms 2026 election results live: Democrats capture Congress - reuters.com/live/us-midterm-…
US midterms 2026 election results live: Democrats capture Congress

US midterms 2026 election results live: Democrats capture Congress

The Democratic wave underscored voters' deep frustration with Trump's stewardship of the economy and his decision to launch a war against Iran, which drove gas prices up sharply.

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Cyberattack on fridges hits supermarkets across Europe reut.rs/3X1A0dF
Cyberattack on fridges hits supermarkets across Europe

Cyberattack on fridges hits supermarkets across Europe

European supermarket fridges are under cyberattack once again, with stores across a vast swathe of the continent from Sweden to ​Belgium hit by a hack on Monday that turned up their temperatures,...

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Taliban’s poppy ban falters as Afghan farmers say they can't feed their children reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…
Taliban’s poppy ban falters as Afghan farmers say they can't feed their children

Taliban’s poppy ban falters as Afghan farmers say they can't feed their children

Carpets still hang on the walls of Mohammad Dawood’s home in a northern Afghanistan village, and ornate mirrors still catch the light, relics of the years when a single poppy harvest could carry his...

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Rioters loot stores in Frankfurt as Gen Z-led protests in Germany turn violent - reuters.com/world/europe/gen…
Rioters loot stores in Frankfurt as Gen Z-led protests in Germany turn violent

Rioters loot stores in Frankfurt as Gen Z-led protests in Germany turn violent

Official numbers suggested turnout was below the 182,000 participants that organizers expected.

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Libya’s eastern-based government banned the entry of Iranian and Afghan nationals through all land, sea and air ports, the government said late on Wednesday. reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…
Libya's eastern administration bars entry to Iranians, Afghans

Libya's eastern administration bars entry to Iranians, Afghans

Libya’s eastern-based government banned the entry of Iranian and Afghan nationals through all land, sea and air ports, the government ​said late on Wednesday.

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Spain deports African, Asian asylum seekers to Morocco amid rights group outcry reut.rs/4z9rmYV
Spain deports African, Asian asylum seekers to Morocco amid rights group outcry

Spain deports African, Asian asylum seekers to Morocco amid rights group outcry

Spain has returned to Morocco more than a dozen sub-Saharan African and Asian migrants who reached the Spanish enclave of Ceuta ​and were turned down for asylum, the first deportation of its kind...

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Spain deports African, Asian asylum seekers to Morocco amid rights group outcry - reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…
Spain deports African, Asian asylum seekers to Morocco amid rights group outcry

Spain deports African, Asian asylum seekers to Morocco amid rights group outcry

Spain has returned to Morocco more than a dozen sub-Saharan African and Asian migrants who reached the Spanish enclave of Ceuta ​and were turned down for asylum, the first deportation of its kind...

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Critics attack 'anti-democratic' French bill making rioters pay - reuters.com/world/europe/cri…
Critics attack 'anti-democratic' French bill making rioters pay

Critics attack 'anti-democratic' French bill making rioters pay

A proposed French law making rioters liable to pay up to €10,000 ($11,150) for damage they cause faces ​a backlash from rights groups and some lawyers who say it attacks the basic democratic right to...

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Food and household brands warn of more price hikes as Iran war costs bite - reuters.com/business/retail-…
Food and household brands warn of more price hikes as Iran war costs bite

Food and household brands warn of more price hikes as Iran war costs bite

The world's top consumer goods and food companies, from ​Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble to Nestle and Reckitt, have warned of further price hikes next year to cover rising costs even ‌as shoppers...

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Palestinians protest against military demolitions in West Bank as Israelis vote - reuters.com/world/middle-eas…
Palestinians protest against military demolitions in West Bank as Israelis vote

Palestinians protest against military demolitions in West Bank as Israelis vote

Israeli troops fired a stun grenade on Tuesday to disperse Palestinians who gathered to protest against an Israeli military operation that has displaced thousands of residents from a neighbourhood in...

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Israel votes in pivotal election - reuters.com/live/live-israel…
Israel election: Netanyahu and Eisenkot deadlocked according to exit polls - as it happened

Israel election: Netanyahu and Eisenkot deadlocked according to exit polls - as it happened

Israel seemed set for uncertain coalition talks as exit polls showed neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor main rival Gadi Eisenkot on track for a majority in the 120-seat Knesset

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"The UAE has so much blood on its hands in Sudan. For its nominee to lead the UN would be an outrage." - @NesrineMalik theguardian.com/commentisfre…
The UAE has so much blood on its hands in Sudan. For its nominee to lead the UN would be an outrage...

The UAE has so much blood on its hands in Sudan. For its nominee to lead the UN would be an outrage...

Lana Nusseibeh has been the face of a disastrous Emirates policy that has prolonged war and death. It is a scandal that she is even being considered, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Beirut's $13 chicken sandwich becomes symbol of Lebanon divide reut.rs/4snp6uk reut.rs/4snp6uk
Beirut's $13 chicken sandwich becomes symbol of Lebanon divide

Beirut's $13 chicken sandwich becomes symbol of Lebanon divide

Seven years after ​Lebanon’s devastating financial meltdown, a debate over a chicken sandwich has exposed an increasingly stark divide between those who can still spend ‌freely and those struggling...

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US has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine, Middle East, sources say - reuters.com/business/autos-t…
EXCLUSIVE: US has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine, Middle East, sources...

EXCLUSIVE: US has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine, Middle East, sources...

The recent limits on Ukraine, despite being a US ally, have also rattled ​officials in Europe.

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Beirut's $13 chicken sandwich becomes symbol of Lebanon divide - reuters.com/world/middle-eas…
Beirut's $13 chicken sandwich becomes symbol of Lebanon divide

Beirut's $13 chicken sandwich becomes symbol of Lebanon divide

Seven years after ​Lebanon’s devastating financial meltdown, a debate over a chicken sandwich has exposed an increasingly stark divide between those who can still spend ‌freely and those struggling...

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Important info on Egypt's growing crackdown on its few remaining independent journalists. I note how a weak international response encouraged Egypt to continue. Failing to stop this will greatly impair our understanding of a strategically critical country at a very sensitive time
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Egypt has jailed an entire newsroom and referred @MadaMasr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah to trial, in an escalating campaign to silence the country’s remaining independent media. Read CPJ’s analysis of Egypt’s unprecedented crackdown on the press by @m_medhaat: cpj.org/2026/10/whos-next-in…
‘Who’s next?’: Inside Egypt’s unprecedented crackdown on the press - Committee to Protect Journal...

‘Who’s next?’: Inside Egypt’s unprecedented crackdown on the press - Committee to Protect Journal...

The referral of independent outlet Mada Masr’s editor-in-chief Lina Attalah to trial, alongside the recent detention of an entire newsroom and the targeting of independent journalists, signals an...

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Saudi missile plant expansion may produce more powerful missiles, study says - reuters.com/world/middle-eas…
EXCLUSIVE: Saudi missile plant expansion may produce more powerful missiles, study says

EXCLUSIVE: Saudi missile plant expansion may produce more powerful missiles, study says

Saudi Arabia appears to be expanding its ballistic missile factory to build larger solid-fuel missiles that could fly farther or carry heavier payloads, according to two US researchers who analyzed...

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Greece, Egypt in talks to extend maritime zone further east reut.rs/4siHSTP reut.rs/4siHSTP
Greece, Egypt in talks to extend maritime zone further east

Greece, Egypt in talks to extend maritime zone further east

Greece and Egypt ​are discussing extending their Exclusive Economic ‌Zone eastwards towards Cyprus after eastern Libya's parliament ratified a disputed maritime agreement with ​Turkey earlier this...

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Israeli settlers steal Palestinians' olives as attacks on harvest grow more violent - reuters.com/world/middle-eas…
Israeli settlers steal Palestinians' olives as attacks on harvest grow more violent

Israeli settlers steal Palestinians' olives as attacks on harvest grow more violent

Even when Palestinians can access their trees, it is not without risk.

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Greece, Egypt in talks to extend maritime zone further east

Greece, Egypt in talks to extend maritime zone further east

Greece and Egypt ​are discussing extending their Exclusive Economic ‌Zone eastwards towards Cyprus after eastern Libya's parliament ratified a disputed maritime agreement with ​Turkey earlier this...

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