By Barbara Erling, Kuba Stezycki and Kacper Pempel BIALOWIEZA, Poland (Reuters) – Surrounded by lush forests, a dozen people huddled near a razor-tipped fence along the Belarus border, waiting for a chance to scale it or push aside its slats to head west into Poland. On the other side, armed Polish border guards and soldiers …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian air defence and mobile drone hunters groups shot down nine out of 13 Russian drones over four regions of the country, the air force said on Saturday. The Iranian-made Shahed drones were downed over the central Poltava region, southeastern Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions, and the Kharkiv region in the northeast, the …
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By Peter Cooney and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed “Earthrise” photo during NASA’s Apollo 8 mission in 1968, died on Friday in the crash of a small airplane in Washington state. He was 90. NASA chief Bill Nelson …
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(Reuters) -The Russia-installed governor of Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson accused Ukrainian forces on Friday of killing 22 people and wounding 15 in shelling of the small town of Sadove. Governor Vladimir Saldo said Ukrainian forces had deliberately struck the area a second time, using a U.S.-supplied HIMARS missile to inflict the largest possible number …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen walked away following an assault by a man in central Copenhagen on Friday and had no outward signs of harm, a local resident told Reuters. “Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was beaten on Friday evening at Kultorvet (square, red.) in Copenhagen by a man who was subsequently arrested. The …
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(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his legitimacy is recognised and determined by the Ukrainian people, while criticizing that of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “President Zelenskiy’s legitimacy is recognised by the people of Ukraine… Our people are free. Putin’s legitimacy is recognised only by comrade Putin,” he told a press conference in Paris. Presidential elections …
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By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has added Israel’s military to a global list of offenders for committing violations against children in 2023, said Israel’s U.N. envoy Gilad Erdan, describing the decision as “shameful.” Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad will also be listed, said a diplomatic source, speaking on …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -With no sign of progress in mediators’ arduous efforts to broker a ceasefire in the Gaza war, Israeli tanks and warplanes blasted central and southern areas of the enclave overnight, killing at least 23 Palestinians, local medics said. Qatari and Egyptian mediators backed by the United States, have tried to …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish prosecutors have apprehended two people suspected of being accessories to the killing of the award-winning hip-hop artist known by the alias C.Gambino, the prosecution agency said on Friday. C.Gambino, who kept his identity hidden and wore a mask in public, was shot dead in a parking garage late on Tuesday in …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarus is ready for a unilateral or bilateral investigation into the death of a Polish soldier on the Belarus-Poland border if Poland provides “specific information about the circumstances of the tragedy”, the Belarusian Border Committee said in a statement on Friday. The Polish soldier died on Thursday after he was stabbed on …
