By Jeff Mason, Elizabeth Pineau and John Irish OMAHA BEACH, France (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden made an impassioned call for the defence of freedom and democracy at the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy on Thursday, urging Western powers to stay the course with Ukraine and not surrender to Russian tyranny. At …
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By Samia Nakhoul and Guy Faulconbridge ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he could deploy conventional missiles within striking distance of the United States and its European allies if they allowed Ukraine to strike deeper into Russia with long-range Western weapons. Putin, in his first face-to-face meeting with senior editors …
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PRAGUE (Reuters) -Four people died and more than 20 were injured when a passenger train collided with a freight train in the Czech city of Pardubice late on Wednesday, emergency and government officials said. At least 20 people suffered light injuries and another three were more seriously hurt in the crash which occurred after 11 …
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KYIV (Reuters) – The Ukrainian air force shot down 17 out of 18 Shahed-type drones over four regions during Russia’s overnight attack on Thursday, according to the military. Russia’s attack caused a fire at an infrastructure facility in Khmelnytskyi region, where one drone was shot down, the regional governor said. The emergency services worked to …
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By Stoyan Nenov SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgarian voters head to the polling stations on Sunday for the sixth snap parliamentary election in three years, but analysts see little chance of it producing a stable coalition that can put an end to a prolonged period of political instability. Bulgaria, the poorest member of the European Union …
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HELSINKI (Reuters) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday that western allies should ensure that gaps in military support to Ukraine are not repeated. Speaking during a visit to Finland, Stoltenberg said Ukraine needed “predictability and accountability” from NATO allies in terms of military support. “Over the last months we have seen some …
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CANBERRA (Reuters) – Rescue efforts at the site of a landslide in Papua New Guinea are due to end on Thursday, two weeks after part of a mountain collapsed onto a remote village, a United Nations agency said. It remained unclear how many people died in the disaster in PNG’s Enga region, but the national …
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By Alvise Armellini VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Francis is a pope of many firsts: the first to use that name, the first from Latin America, the first from the Jesuit religious order. Since last week, he’s also the first pope to apologise for using foul language. Francis was quoted by Italian media as using the …
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By Karolina Tagaris , Renee Maltezou and Maya Gebeily ATHENS/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Egyptian electrician Mahmoud Shalabi was the only person from his hometown to survive when a fishing trawler crammed with migrants capsized off Greece a year ago, killing hundreds in one of the deadliest recorded boat disasters in the Mediterranean. Sixteen friends from Shalabi’s …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – An award-winning Swedish hip-hop artist known by the alias C.Gambino was shot dead late on Tuesday in a suspected gang-related attack, police said, as gun violence continues to plague the Nordic country. C.Gambino was shot at least twice in an apparent deliberate attack in a public parking garage in the western city …
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