By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Russia attacked Ukraine’s energy system and some cities with cruise and ballistic missiles plus drones on Wednesday in an “inhuman” Christmas Day assault, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Nearly three years into the war, the strikes wounded at least six people in the northeastern city of Kharkiv and killed one …
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) -Lawmakers in Bosnia’s Serb Republic regional parliament ordered Serb representatives in state institutions on Wednesday to block decision-making and law changes needed for the Balkan country’s integration into the European Union. The regional parliament announced the action in an emergency session called to discuss the response to the trial of the region’s leader, …
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) – More than 200,000 homes across Bosnia and Herzegovina were without electricity for a second day on Wednesday, authorities said, after a snowstorm the day before caused widespread disruption across several Balkan countries. Mainly in northwestern and central Bosnia, towns and villages suffered ongoing power outages, the country’s two power utilities said. The …
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OSLO (Reuters) – Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said on Wednesday authorities in his country were investigating an undersea power cable outage on a line connecting Finland and Estonia. An unplanned break in service on the Estlink 2 interconnector occurred at 1026 GMT, operator Fingrid said in a statement on the Nordpool regulatory web site, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian cargo ship that ran into trouble on Monday in the Mediterranean Sea and later sank was rocked by a series of three explosions in “an act of terrorism,” state news agency RIA cited the vessel’s owner as saying on Wednesday. Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the “Ursa Major,” built …
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Hundreds of university students rallied in Belgrade on Wednesday to protest the policies of President Aleksandar Vucic and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), whom they blame for a railway disaster last month in which 15 people died. The concrete awning of the recently renovated roof of the train station in the …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Authorities in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Wednesday declared a region-wide emergency, saying that oil was still washing up on the coastline 10 days after two ageing tankers ran into trouble. The oil is from the tankers which were hit by a storm on Dec. 15. One of the vessels split in …
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By Liz Lee and Sakura Murakami BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) -Talks between China and Japan’s foreign ministers in Beijing have paved way for Japan to host China’s foreign affairs chief next year, and mutual agreement to hold a security dialogue as soon as possible, Japan said on Wednesday. No details were given for when the events will …
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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis in his Christmas message on Wednesday called for talks between Ukraine and Russia to end the war that followed Moscow’s full-scale invasion two years ago and has killed tens of thousands. In his Christmas Day “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and world) address, Francis mentioned …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Falling debris from a Ukrainian drone that was shot down caused an explosion and a fatal fire in a shopping centre in the city of Vladikavkaz in Russia’s North Ossetia region, the local governor said on Wednesday. Sergei Menyailo, the regional governor, wrote on his official Telegram account that air defence systems …
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