ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Russia alleged on Friday that Ukraine had used U.S.-supplied rockets to kill women and children in a region of southern Russia, and said that Washington was to blame. It was the first time that Russia has said it holds the United States responsible for civilian deaths on its own soil – …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Twelve people were injured on Friday following an explosion and fire at a home-improvement chain store in northeastern Romania, a government emergency response agency said. The fire has been extinguished and search and rescue teams were looking for more potential victims inside the store, the response unit said. (Reporting by Luiza Ilie; …
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(This June 4 story has been corrected to fix the year of murder to 2007 in paragraph 1, and to rectify the spelling of Christopher in paragraph 4) By Silvia Ognibene and Cristiano Corvino FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) – An Italian court found American Amanda Knox guilty of slander on Wednesday and handed her a three-year …
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By Bart H. Meijer AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Left-wing parties in the Netherlands on Thursday were projected to have narrowly won the most votes in the election for European Parliament, although nationalist Geert Wilders’ anti-immigration party made the largest gains. The Labour/GreenLeft combination was projected to have won eight seats, slightly ahead of Wilders’ PVV at seven …
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By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday imposed visa restrictions on a few dozen people Georgian nationals it accused of undermining democracy, including members of the Georgian Dream party and members of parliament and law enforcement, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said. Georgia last month passed a “foreign agent” bill that has …
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By Lucy Papachristou, Filipp Lebedev and Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) -Russia said on Thursday it had detained a Frenchman suspected of gathering information about the Russian military, an incident French President Emmanuel Macron described as part of a campaign of disinformation by Moscow. The Swiss-based nonprofit Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD) said it was aware …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France plans to provide Mirage 2000 warplanes to Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron told French TV stations on Thursday. Macron said that on Friday, on the occasion of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s visit to France as part of D-Day anniversary celebrations, his government would announce it will provide the warplanes to Ukraine. He did not …
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By Michelle Nichols, Arshad Mohammed and John Irish UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Three European powers have written to the U.N. Security Council detailing Iran’s violations of its 2015 nuclear deal, a step diplomats said on Thursday aimed to pressure Tehran to resolve the issue diplomatically and to avoid reimposing U.N. sanctions. The British, French and …
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By Janis Laizans ARROMANCHES-LES-BAINS, France (Reuters) – With a single piper playing bagpipes on deck, a restored World War Two amphibious vehicle landed on Gold Beach in Normandy on Thursday, exactly 80 years after the allied landing that started the liberation of France from Nazi occupation. The son of a World War Two soldier, British …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and James Mackenzie CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel hit a Gaza school on Thursday with what it described as a targeted airstrike on up to 30 Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters inside, and a Hamas official said 40 people were killed including women and children sheltering at the U.N. site. Video footage showed Palestinians …
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