By Gabriella Borter MAYFIELD, Ky. (Reuters) -The barrage of tornadoes that tore through six states killed at least 74 people in Kentucky, officials said on Monday, as those fortunate enough to survive unscathed opened their doors to victims whose homes were destroyed, and hundreds of the suddenly homeless took refuge in shelters. The death toll …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Low voter turnout at New Caledonia’s independence referendum, after a boycott by indigenous groups “weighs heavily” on the French territory’s self-determination process, election observers from the Pacific Islands Forum said on Tuesday. France declared the result of Sunday’s referendum showed 96.5% of those who voted opposed independence, compared to …
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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) – Major powers and Iran have yet to get down to business at talks on rescuing the 2015 nuclear deal, which will very soon become “an empty shell” without progress, senior British, French and German diplomats said on Monday. “As of this moment, we still have not been able to …
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By Nikolaj Skydsgaard, Johan Ahlander and Niklas Pollard STOCKHOLM/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -One of two Danish crew members missing from a capsized barge has been found dead in the hull after an overnight collision on Monday with a British cargo vessel in a busy Baltic Sea route off Sweden. The 55-metre Karin Hoj barge and 90-metre Scot …
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) -Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan hosted Israel’s prime minister, Naftali Bennett, on Monday in the first-ever public meeting between the United Arab Emirates’ de facto ruler and an Israeli leader. Israel’s ambassador to Abu Dhabi, speaking ahead of the meeting, said the issue of Iran would “certainly come …
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PARIS (Reuters) – The French and German finance ministers, during the first visit of new German Finance Minister Christian Lindner to Paris, said talks about the role of nuclear energy in European power markets will be difficult, even if they agreed on most other issues. France, which will take on the rotating presidency of the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It is too soon to say whether Iran has returned to nuclear talks with a more constructive approach, the U.S. State Department said on Monday, after Iran’s top nuclear negotiator said progress had been made. State Department deputy spokeswoman Jalina Porter made the comment during a briefing call with reporters. Iran’s top …
By Alexander Marrow and Mark Trevelyan MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Monday it may be forced to deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe in response to what it sees as NATO’s plans to do the same. The warning from Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov raised the risk of a new arms build-up on the continent, …
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LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday that members of the NATO military alliance were threatening Russia by expanding activity in Ukraine, the Kremlin said. U.S. intelligence assesses that Russia could be planning a multi-front offensive on neighbouring Ukraine as early as next year, involving up to …
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By Krisztina Than KECSKEMET, Hungary (Reuters) – Prime Minister Viktor Orban is casting himself as the defender of traditional Hungarian values against “LGBT ideology” for the 2022 election in which his party may be vulnerable for the first time to a newly united opposition. Identity politics, especially a hardline anti-immgration line, and disarray among Orban’s …
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