By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) – Firefighters battled on Wednesday to extinguish the remnants of a wildfire near Athens that killed a woman, torched buildings, devoured woodland and forced thousands of people to flee their homes. Most of the fronts had eased three days after the inferno had first taken hold, but officials warned against …
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By Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military incursion into Russia had “created a real dilemma” for Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday, adding that U.S. officials are in constant touch with the Ukrainians about the move. A week after about 1,000 Ukrainian troops rammed through …
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(Reuters) – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said late on Tuesday that evidence continues to indicate that Monday’s fire at the Russia-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine did not start at the base of the cooling tower or by a foreign object. “The evidence gathered reinforces our conclusion that the main fire seems unlikely …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The globally active criminal ransomware group Radar/Dispossessor, which targeted at least dozens of companies in sectors including healthcare and transport, has been taken down, authorities in the United States and Germany said on Tuesday. The group, founded in August 2023 and led by the online moniker “Brain”, targeted small to medium-sized companies, …
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By Anastasiia Malenko, Tom Balmforth and Yuliia Dysa KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Tuesday its biggest cross-border assault of the war to date had taken control of 74 settlements in Russia’s region of Kursk and was still advancing, making gains of one to three km in the last 24 hours. Ukraine blindsided Moscow by pouring …
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PARIS (Reuters) – A French farm has had an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza for the first time since January, the agriculture ministry said in a statement late on Tuesday. The disease, commonly known as bird flu, was detected on a poultry farm in the northwestern region of Brittany on Monday and thought most …
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(Reuters) – Russian shelling killed at least one civilian and injured two more in Ukraine’s Sumy region, the local administration said, as Kyiv troops proceed with their major cross-border assault in Russia’s adjacent Kursk region. The casualties were reported in the Krasnopillia area, the regional military administration said. It said 45 Russian attacks on the …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -Two crude oil tanker ships reported coming under attack in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen on Tuesday, although neither reported damage, maritime security agencies said. The attempted assaults on those vessels, identified as the Liberia-flagged Delta Atlantica and the Panama-flagged On Phoenix, bear hallmarks of Iran-aligned Houthi militant attacks on …
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DRESDEN, Germany (Reuters) – Nearly five years after millions of euros’ worth of jewellery was stolen in a museum heist in eastern Germany, visitors can once again admire nearly all of the precious pieces in person. In November 2019, thieves stole pieces that contained more than 4,300 diamonds with an estimated value of over 113 …
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(Reuters) – Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Tuesday that Russia needs to be forced to participate in a summit on peace as it would not do so willingly. Podolyak told national TV that one of the methods of coercion is actions on the battlefield, referring to Ukraine’s unprecedented cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk …
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