By Jake Spring (Reuters) – The world in 2022 reached its most ambitious deal ever to halt the destruction of nature by decade’s end. Two years later, countries are already behind on meeting their goals. As nearly 200 nations meet on Monday for a two-week U.N. biodiversity summit, COP16, in Cali, Colombia, they will be …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece has recovered the bodies of two migrants – a man and a woman – who had been missing after a boat sank off the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea, the country’s coastguard said on Monday. Another 22 people who boarded the same boat have been rescued amid fair weather …
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(Reuters) – Half of Moldovans voted “yes” in Sunday’s referendum on the country’s EU aspirations, based on 97.66% of votes counted, according to preliminary results given on Moldova’s Central Election Commission’s website early on Monday. (Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
By Tom Balmforth and Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) -Moldovan President Maia Sandu said Sunday’s twin votes faced an “unprecedented” assault from outside interference after preliminary results showed the election heading for a tight run-off and an EU referendum going to the wire. With more than 92% of the ballots counted, 52% voted “no” in the …
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(Reuters) -Recent statements by U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration that Washington is ready for nuclear talks without preconditions with Russia, China and North Korea are a “deception,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. “The call to talk about strategic stability, about control over nuclear weapons without preconditions is a deception,” Lavrov told the news outlet …
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By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) – Moldovan police said on Thursday they had uncovered a programme in which hundreds of its citizens were brought to Russia to undergo training to stage riots and civil unrest, the latest in a slew of meddling allegations ahead of Sunday’s election. The police said earlier this month that Russia-backed …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian forces are fighting street-to-street battles with Ukrainian troops in the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian town of Selydove as Moscow’s forces push to gain control over the whole of the Donbas region, according to pro-Russian bloggers. Russian forces, which President Vladimir Putin ordered into Ukraine in February 2022, advanced in September at …
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(Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin told the visiting president of the United Arab Emirates on Sunday that relations between the two states amounted to a “strategic partnership” and thanked him for mediation efforts in exchanging prisoners of war with Ukraine. Russian news agencies providing an account of a dinner Putin hosted at his residence for …
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(Reuters) – The U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said in a statement that an Israeli army bulldozer had demolished an observation tower and perimeter fence of a U.N. position in Marwahin in southern Lebanon on Sunday. (Reporting by Amina Ismail; Writing by Hatem Maher; Editing by Ros Russell)
By Lucy Papachristou TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili addressed a crowd of thousands at rally in the capital on Sunday, delivering a strong pro-EU message just days before a fiercely-contested parliamentary election. The crowds gathered in Tbilisi’s central square represented “a free Georgia”, she said. “Here today is the society, the people, the …
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