MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) – A Russian troop build-up near Ukraine has led to fears that a war could break out between the former Soviet neighbours. Here are some potential flashpoints. SEA OF AZOV Confrontation has periodically flared up in the Sea of Azov, flanked by the Ukrainian and Russian coastlines, since Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in …
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By Marco Trujillo LA PALMA, Spain (Reuters) -Authorities in Spain’s La Palma lifted a stay-at-home order on Monday just a few hours after telling people to stay indoors due to poor air quality caused by the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano . The eruption, which has sent spectacular rivers of molten lava running down …
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By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) – Russia’s domestic intelligence service was accused by its Ukrainian counterpart on Monday of waging information warfare after it said it had arrested 106 supporters of a Ukrainian neo-Nazi youth group for planning attacks and mass murders. The incident came at a moment of acute tension between the two countries, …
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(This December 7 story corrects to say South Caucasus neighbours rather than Central Asian neighbours in first paragraph) By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – World Court judges on Tuesday issued urgent decisions ordering both Azerbaijan and Armenia to prevent racial hatred in similar rulings in tit-for-tat cases brought by the feuding South …
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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A Vatican department has apologised for “causing pain to the entire LGBTQ community” by removing from its website a link to resource material from a Catholic gay rights advocacy group. The website of the Synod of Bishops, which is organising a two-year global consultative process ahead of a …
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By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) -Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Formula One championship, denying Lewis Hamilton a record eighth, with a last-lap overtake to win a season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday amid controversy and high drama. Hamilton’s Mercedes team took the constructors’ title for an unprecedented eighth year in a row but their …
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By Anne Mimault DORI, Burkina Faso (Reuters) – Suspended from scales in a bucket, nine-month-old Sakinatou Amadou gripped the sides of her makeshift container as a nurse at a small clinic in northern Burkina Faso checked on her recovery from malnutrition. Sakinatou’s mother is dead and she is being raised in Dori, a trading hub …
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(Reuters) – One person was killed and 14 were injured in a shooting at a vigil near Houston, Texas, on Sunday, the county sheriff said. A large crowd had gathered for a “celebration of life” when a vehicle approached and someone in it opened fire, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said on Twitter. Of the …
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By Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s new government passed a supplementary budget on Monday to supercharge its climate and transformation fund with a debt-financed injection of 60 billion euros ($68 billion) to allow more investments in the shift towards a green economy. The supplementary budget, passed unanimously by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s cabinet, will channel 60 …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Coronavirus-free Queensland state opened its domestic borders to all vaccinated people on Monday for the first time in nearly five months, as Australians gear up for quarantine-free travel across most of the country during the busy Christmas period. Hundreds of cars queued up at the state’s southern border with New South Wales …
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