(This July 1 story refiles to correct attribution in par 11) By Iryna Nazarchuk SERHIIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russia flattened part of an apartment building while residents slept on Friday in missile attacks near Ukraine’s port of Odesa that authorities said killed at least 21 people, hours after Russian troops abandoned the Black Sea outpost …
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(Reuters) – Norway on Friday pledged 1 billion euros ($1.04 billion) to help Ukraine defend itself, support people in need and for reconstruction in the wake of Russia’s invasion. Addressing a news conference in Kyiv alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said Norway wanted to express its solidarity with Ukraine’s …
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(Reuters) -China will loosen entry restrictions on U.S. citizens, allowing entrance in case of transit via a third country, notices issued late on Friday by the Chinese embassy in Washington said, relaxing rules imposed in Beijing’s drive to curb COVID-19. China’s “dynamic COVID zero” policy, which aims to minimise the risk of infected travellers arriving …
By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron told new Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese he wanted to focus on the future as they try to rebuild relations badly strained by his predecessor’s decision to ditch a submarine contract with Paris. Relations between the two Western allies reached a low last October when Australia …
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By Meg Shen and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) -There is no reason to change Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” formula of governance, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on a rare visit to the global financial hub after swearing in the city’s new leader, John Lee, on Friday. Britain returned Hong Kong to Chinese …
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By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi and Arnd Wiegmann SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland (Reuters) – Alois Carnier, 57, and Peter Leu, 67, said “wholeheartedly, I do” to each other on Friday as same-sex marriages became legal in Switzerland. It is the first time two men have walked out of the civil registry in their town of Schaffhausen as husband …
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By Alexander Cornwell ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates on Friday signed a free trade agreement, strengthening economic ties between Southeast Asia’s largest economy and the major oil producing Gulf state. The accord, reached during a visit by Indonesian President Joko Widodo to Abu Dhabi, will remove or sharply reduce duties …
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By Charlotte Greenfield and Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) -The reclusive supreme leader of the Afghan Taliban hailed the Islamists’ 2021 takeover of Afghanistan during a meeting on Friday called to forge national unity and attended by religious leaders from around the country. Taliban spokesmen confirmed that Haibatullah Akhundzada, who is based in the southern …
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ZURICH (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights chief urged the Taliban authorities on Friday to respect the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan, which she said were facing the biggest erosion in decades. Women face hunger, domestic violence, unemployment, curbs on movement and dress, and lack of access to education in a country …
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By Yuka Obayashi and Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – The highest temperatures for the season since record-keeping began have scorched much of eastern Japan for a week, prompting the government to ask citizens to cut power use as much as possible, while running air conditioners to stay safe. The region around Tokyo hit its seventh …
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