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Democrats Harris, Walz test Midwest credentials at Michigan and Wisconsin rallies

8 Aug 2024

By Jeff Mason and Joseph Ax EAU CLAIRE, Wisconsin/DETROIT (Reuters) -Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her new running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, put his Midwestern credentials to the test on Wednesday with rallies in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan. “Hello, Eau Claire!” Walz said to a boisterous crowd of thousands in …

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Olympics-French police release Australian hockey player caught buying drugs

7 Aug 2024

By Juliette Jabkhiro and Iain Axon PARIS (Reuters) -Australia’s Olympic hockey player Tom Craig was released from police custody and apologised to his family and teammates on Wednesday, after being arrested in Paris for buying cocaine. Craig, 28, a silver medallist at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, has played more than 100 games for …

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Taylor Swift Vienna concerts cancelled due to planned attack, organizer says

7 Aug 2024

By Alexandra Schwarz-Goerlich and Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) -Taylor Swift’s three concerts in Vienna this week were cancelled after government confirmation of a planned attack at the stadium, the organizer said late on Wednesday. “With confirmation from government officials of a planned terrorist attack at Ernst Happel Stadium, we have no choice but to cancel …

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Moldova authorities throw out registration of pro-Russian election bloc

7 Aug 2024

By Alexaner Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) – Election authorities in ex-Soviet Moldova on Wednesday threw out a registration application from a pro-Russian political bloc headed by a fugitive business magnate convicted of mass fraud. The Central Election Committee said the application, examined three months before a presidential election, was rejected on technical grounds: the bloc bore …

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Ukraine pierces Russian border, triggering fierce clashes

7 Aug 2024

By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Wednesday it was fighting intense battles against Ukrainian forces that had penetrated its southern border near a major natural gas transmission hub, in one of the largest incursions into Russian territory since the war began. The acting governor of Kursk region, Alexey Smirnov, said …

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Pope’s weekly audience interrupted by animal rights activists

7 Aug 2024

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis’s weekly general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday was briefly interrupted by two women from an animal rights group, who shouted and held up signs against bullfighting. The women walked down an aisle in the Vatican’s Paul VI hall holding signs written in Spanish and English saying, “Bullfighting is …

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German hotel partially collapses, killing one; eight others trapped

7 Aug 2024

KROEV, Germany (Reuters) -A hotel partially collapsed overnight near the banks of the river Moselle in Germany, killing one person and trapping eight others, some of whom suffered severe injuries in the incident, local police said on Wednesday. The body of the deceased person was located but could not yet be recovered, said police, who …

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Russian drone attack injures one, damages homes in Kyiv region, authorities say

7 Aug 2024

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s air force shot down all 30 drones launched by Russia overnight over seven regions, it said in a statement on Telegram messaging app. In the third consecutive overnight attack on the Kyiv region one person was injured and 22 residential houses and an outbuilding were damaged, regional authorities said. The air force …

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Russian military blogger jailed for 6.5 years for “fake news”

7 Aug 2024

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian military blogger has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in a penal colony after being found guilty of spreading false information about the armed forces, state investigators said on Wednesday. Andrei Kurshin ran the “Moscow Calling” Telegram channel, which supported the aims of Russia’s war in Ukraine but criticised the way …

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