By Pavel Polityuk and Vladyslav Smilianets KYIV (Reuters) – Loud explosions rocked Ukraine’s capital Kyiv early on Monday as Russia launched a barrage of missiles, sparking fires and damaging homes and infrastructure, officials said. Residents across the city were awoken by a quick succession of bangs and the sound of air defence missiles blasting off …
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PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech police detained some 30 migrants and found one dead person in a truck near Prague on a highway to Germany on Monday evening, police and emergency service said on social network X. “All indications are showing they are transit migrants and unfortunately first information says there is one dead person,” police …
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(Reuters) – Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Mongolia’s failure to arrest visiting Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, wanted on an international warrant, dealt a severe blow to the international criminal law system. Putin arrived in Mongolia on Monday for talks likely to focus on a new gas pipeline connecting Russia and China. An International …
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LONDON/ATHENS (Reuters) -Two oil tankers, the Saudi-flagged Amjad and Panama-flagged Blue Lagoon I, were attacked on Monday in the Red Sea off Yemen, two sources familiar with the matter said. Yemen’s Houthis late on Monday claimed responsibility for targeting the Blue Lagoon with multiple missiles and drones but did not make any mention of the …
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By Emily Rose JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Thousands of mourners lined the streets of Jerusalem on Monday to bid farewell to slain American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, one of the best-known faces of those seized by Hamas-led gunmen on Oct. 7. Goldberg-Polin’s body, along with the bodies of fellow hostages Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi …
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By Vitalii Hnidyi KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – As children across Ukraine return for the start of the academic year, in the country’s second largest city of Kharkiv they could only do so at an underground school amid Russian bombardment. Kharkiv’s schools have been teaching children online since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – The salvage operation of the oil tanker MV Sounion, which was recently attacked by Iran-aligned Houthi militants, is about to begin, the European Union’s mission in the Red Sea, Aspides, said on Monday. Aspides said in a statement that “several fires” continued to burn on the Greek-registered vessel, which is laden with …
POLSBROEKERDAM, The Netherlands (Reuters) – Contestants from all over the Netherlands gathered in the central village of Polsbroekerdam on Saturday for the yearly national ‘fierljeppen’ or canal vaulting contest. Over 2,000 people gathered to watch 48 competitors across five categories battle it out for the championship where contestants have to vault the greatest distance across …
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ROME (Reuters) – A rare haul of 27 silver Roman coins dated between 94 and 74 BC has been discovered on the remote island of Pantelleria, the Sicily region said on Monday. The discovery was made during a cleaning and restoration project by a team led by archaeologist Thomas Schaefer from the University of Tuebingen …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian forces are fighting in the eastern Ukrainian cities of Selydove and Ukrainsk, pro-Russian bloggers said on Monday, as Moscow’s forces try to smash through part of Ukraine’s defensive line. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine on the purported Russian advance. Russian forces, which control 18% of Ukraine, have been advancing …
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