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Romanians rush to visit new cathedral, world’s largest Orthodox church

BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Maria Rusu and her husband drove all night from their hometown of Cluj in western Romania to the capital Bucharest to visit the country’s nearly completed national cathedral, now the world’s largest Orthodox Christian church. Like Rusu, hundreds of thousands of Romanians from across the country and abroad have rushed to visit the …

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Russia says drones hit power plant’s pipeline in western Oryol

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian western city of Oryol is restricting supply of heat and hot water after Ukrainian drones hit a pipeline at a local power plant on Friday, local authorities said. “It will be necessary to limit the heat and hot water supply to buildings in the Sovetsky, Zheleznodorozhny and Severny districts of the city …

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Exclusive-Russia uses missile in Ukraine that led Trump to quit nuclear treaty, Kyiv says

By Tom Balmforth LONDON (Reuters) -Russia has in recent months attacked Ukraine with a cruise missile whose secret development prompted Donald Trump to abandon a nuclear arms control pact with Moscow in his first term as U.S. president, Ukraine’s foreign minister said. Andrii Sybiha’s comments are the first confirmation that Russia has used the ground-launched …

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Trump-Putin summit cancelled after Moscow sent memo to Washington, FT reports

(Reuters) -The United States cancelled a planned Budapest summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin following Russia’s firm stance on hardline demands regarding Ukraine, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The decision came after a tense call between the two countries’ top diplomats, the Financial Times said, citing people familiar with the …

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Analysis-Nuclear curveball: Trump’s testing plan raises fears, confusion in Washington

By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali, David Brunnstrom and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -If U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Richard Correll thought he was going to have an easy confirmation hearing on Thursday to become the commander of America’s nuclear forces, those hopes surely vanished at 9:04 p.m. the night before he was to testify. That was …

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Latvian parliament votes to quit convention protecting women

By Andrius Sytas and Janis Laizans RIGA (Reuters) -Latvia’s parliament voted on Thursday to quit an international treaty aimed at combating violence against women, after a conservative partner in the ruling coalition broke ranks to support the move in defiance of both the prime minister and president. The Istanbul Convention, established by the Council of …

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Soccer-Maradona statue rides through Naples as city remembers Argentine great

NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) -A car painted in Napoli’s signature sky blue colour drove through the streets on Thursday carrying a statue of the late Diego Maradona as Naples celebrated what would have been his 65th birthday. The Argentine, who carved his name into Napoli history by guiding them to the Italian Serie A title in …

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Testing US nuclear arsenal is important to national security, Vance says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Testing the U.S. nuclear arsenal is important to ensuring national security, Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday after President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military to resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years. “It’s an important part of American national security to make sure that this nuclear arsenal we …

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