MOSCOW (Reuters) -A fire at the Naftan oil refinery in Belarus, one of the country’s two biggest, has been put out and nobody was hurt, the country’s emergency emergencies ministry said on Thursday. The state Belta news agency said earlier that the fire had been caused by an incident involving diesel fuel at a technological …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ukraine struck Russia with at least 75 drones on Thursday, sparking a fire in an industrial area of the southern city of Volgograd, killing at least one and halting dozens of flights across the country, Russian officials said. Ukraine has for several months been striking Russian oil refineries, depots and pipelines in a …
By Joseph Ax, Richard Cowan and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats took a victory lap on Wednesday after sweeping the first major elections since Donald Trump returned to the White House, a much-needed balm for a wounded party that had spent much of the last year desperately trying to find its footing. A new generation …
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SAINT-PIERRE-D’OLERON, France (Reuters) -A French man rammed his car into pedestrians and cyclists on Oleron island off France’s Atlantic coast on Wednesday, injuring five people and shouting “Allahu Akbar” when arrested by police, officials said. Officials including Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the motive for the attack on a quiet island popular with summer tourists …
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BELGRADE (Reuters) -More than 10,000 of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s supporters rallied in the capital Belgrade on Wednesday to back the populist’s policies after a year of anti-government protests. Gathered in front of parliament, the Vucic supporters, many of whom travelled to the capital in buses organised by Vucic’s party, waved national flags and chanted …
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By Manuela Andreoni and Sam Tabahriti RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Wednesday hailed Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral race as “a fantastic win” and congratulated New Yorkers for choosing “hope over fear.” Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, scooped the mayoral election by vowing to hike taxes …
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By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) -The trial of Greece’s Olympiacos football club chairman Evangelos Marinakis and dozens of soccer fans began in Greece on Wednesday, the biggest case of its kind linked to sports-related violence that authorities have vowed to crack down on. In total, 142 fans face charges of participating in a criminal organisation …
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PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech far-right leader Tomio Okamura won the post of speaker of the lower house in a vote on Wednesday, the first appointment of populist billionaire Andrej Babis’s newly formed coalition with fringe right-wing groups. The vote was a key step in forming a new government following a parliamentary election won by Babis’s ANO …
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By Kate Abnett, Inti Landauro and Benoit Van Overstraeten BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU climate ministers agreed a 2040 climate change target in the early hours of Wednesday after watering down the goal in last-minute negotiations, as they raced to clinch the deal before the U.N. COP30 summit in Brazil. After negotiating late into Tuesday night, climate …
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By Vladimir Soldatkin and Mark Trevelyan MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his top officials on Wednesday to draft proposals for a possible test of nuclear weapons, something Moscow has not done since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. The order – responding to President Donald Trump’s announcement last week that the U.S. …
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