By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis has revealed he was the target of an attempted suicide bombing during his visit to Iraq three years ago, the first by a Catholic pontiff to the country and probably the riskiest foreign trip of his 11-year papacy. In an excerpt published on Tuesday from a …
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By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) – Russian prosecutors have demanded prison terms of nearly six years each for three lawyers who represented Alexei Navalny, an ally of the late opposition leader said on Tuesday. Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser are accused of taking part in an extremist organisation. They were arrested in October …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The head of a U.N. investigative body has written to Syria’s new authorities to express a willingness to engage with them and to travel to Syria to secure evidence that could implicate top officials of the former government, he said on Tuesday. Rebels swept President Bashar al-Assad from power this month, flinging …
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(Reuters) -The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) killed Russian Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov in a special operation in Moscow on Tuesday, a source in the agency told Reuters. Reuters could not independently verify the claim. The source said Kyiv regarded Kirillov as a war criminal and an “absolutely legitimate target”, accusing him of ordering the …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish authorities have seized 44 litres of liquid cocaine worth about 7.5 million zlotys ($1.85 million) that was hidden in cartons of wine, the Border Guard said on Tuesday. Officers from the Maritime Border Guard Unit in the northern port city of Gdansk worked with Czech customs officers to seize the drugs …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany plans talks with representatives of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Damascus on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said, joining the United States and Britain in establishing contact with the Islamist group after it led the overthrow of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. German diplomats’ first talks with representatives of the HTS-appointed interim government will …
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By Lucy Papachristou and Nazarali Pirnazarov LONDON/HULBUK, Tajikistan (Reuters) – When Abubakr Yusufi boarded a flight to Moscow in July, he thought he wouldn’t be home for years. The 23-year-old from a small village in Tajikistan hoped to join his uncle and cousins working in construction in the Russian capital and save enough money to …
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By Dominique Vidalon and Abdou Moustoifa PARIS/MORONI (Reuters) -Emergency workers searched for survivors on Monday and battled to restore services in Mayotte, France’s poorest overseas territory, where hundreds, or even thousands, are feared dead from the worst cyclone to hit the Indian Ocean islands in nearly a century. Cyclone Chido devastated large parts of the …
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(Reuters) -Ukraine’s HUR military spy agency said on Monday that North Korean units fighting for Russia sustained losses of at least 30 soldiers killed or wounded around several villages on the front in Russia’s Kursk region over the weekend. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said at the weekend that Russia was using North Korean troops in significant …
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By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union plans for a new renewable energy goal hit early resistance on Monday from pro-nuclear governments, who indicated they would not back a goal that excludes atomic energy. The EU’s 27 member countries have opposing views on nuclear power, and political disputes over the energy source have delayed …
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