(Reuters) -A gunman on Friday shot and killed a nationalist former member of Ukraine’s parliament known for vociferous campaigns to defend the Ukrainian language, authorities said. Police pressed on through the night with a wide search for the man alleged to have shot Iryna Farion, 60, on a street in the western city of Lviv. …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he had a “very good call” on Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and pledged to end the war pitting Kyiv against Moscow through negotiations. Zelenskiy also reported his conversation with Trump and expressed thanks for U.S. military assistance. …
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By Makini Brice, Andy Sullivan and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden vowed on Friday to continue his campaign for reelection even as more fellow Democrats in Congress urged him to end his floundering campaign, fearing that it could cost the party dearly in the Nov. 5 election. More than one in 10 congressional …
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By Andrew Osborn and Mark Trevelyan MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian court found U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich guilty of espionage on Friday and sentenced him to 16 years in a maximum security penal colony in what his employer, the Wall Street Journal, called “a disgraceful sham conviction.” Gershkovich, a 32-year-old American who denied any wrongdoing, went …
By Stephanie van den Berg and Emily Rose THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The United Nations’ highest court said on Friday that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and settlements there are illegal and should be withdrawn as soon as possible, in its strongest findings to date on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The advisory opinion by judges at …
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By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s foreign ministry said on Friday that a German national had been sentenced to death in Belarus, and that Berlin is in intensive contact with authorities in Minsk over his fate. Belarus, a close ally of Russia, is the only country in Europe that still applies the death penalty. The …
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YAKUTSK, Russia (Reuters) -Russia’s state forest agency said it was fighting 222 separate blazes across 20 regions on Thursday as an unusually hot summer fuels forest fires, after millions of hectares of woodland were destroyed in recent years. States of emergency were in force in the far eastern Yakutia and Zabaikalsky regions because of forest …
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By Maha El Dahan and Michael Georgy (Reuters) -An apparent drone attack – claimed by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia – hit central Tel Aviv in the early hours of Friday, killing one man and slightly wounding four others, the Israeli military and emergency services said. The explosion, which did not trigger air raid alarms, occurred …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Two hospitals in the northern German cities of Luebeck and Kiel have cancelled elective operations scheduled for Friday, their operator said, citing a global IT outage linked to the cybersecurity company Crowdstrike. Patient care and emergency services are being maintained, the University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) added in a statement. (Writing by …
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PARIS (Reuters) -A police officer was critically injured in a stabbing attack in Paris’ Champs Elysees shopping district on Thursday after a security guard at a boutique called police after spotting a man who appeared to be carrying a knife, the Paris police chief said. The attacker was also critically injured, the police chief, Laurent …
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