By Dilara Senkaya and Burcu Karakas ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Ilker Yazici – stage name Miss Putka – was in secondary school when he discovered he was gay. There he met LGBT advocacy groups and joined street protests in Turkey’s capital Ankara to defend LGBT rights, carrying rainbow flags. “At first I struggled with myself a …
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish police started dismantling about 200 tents housing asylum seekers in Dublin early on Wednesday, tackling what has become a focal point for heated debate around migration. The government said police and other officials were removing migrants from tents that first appeared about a year ago on Mount Street …
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By Humeyra Pamuk, Alexander Cornwell and Pesha Magid RIYADH (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday urged Hamas to swiftly accept an Israeli proposal for a truce in the Gaza war and the release of Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian militant group. Hamas negotiators were expected to meet Qatari and Egyptian mediators …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia may respond to any U.S. confiscation of its currency reserves frozen in the West by seizing the assets, including property and cash, of U.S. citizens and investors in Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, a senior security official, said on Saturday. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill allowing the Biden administration …
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Monday the Telegram messaging app had restored access to a number of chatbots used by Ukraine’s security agencies to collect information about Russia’s war effort after the services were briefly suspended. The Dubai-based Telegram app founded by Russian-born Pavel Durov blocked a number of bots used by Ukraine to fight …
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MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday that after a period of reflection about his future he had decided to continue as the country’s leader. Sanchez said he had informed King Felipe VI of his decision. His decision to continue draws a line under a week in which Spanish politics was thrown …
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TURIN (Reuters) – Energy ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy countries meeting in Italy are discussing setting a common target date of 2035 to shut down their coal-powered power plants, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Monday. An agreement on coal would mark a significant step in the direction indicated by …
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates and Ukraine have completed negotiations for a bilateral trade deal, according to a joint statement released on Monday, ahead of its formal signing. The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) will remove or reduce tariffs on a range of good and products, remove trade barriers and ease market …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Andrew Mills CAIRO/DOHA (Reuters) -A Hamas delegation will visit Cairo on Monday for talks aimed at securing a ceasefire, a Hamas official told Reuters on Sunday, as mediators stepped up efforts to reach a deal ahead of an expected Israeli assault on the southern city of Rafah. The official, who asked …
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By Dan Peleschuk and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s top commander said on Sunday Kyiv’s outnumbered troops had fallen back to new positions west of three villages on the eastern front where Russia has concentrated significant forces in several locations. The statement by Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi reflected Ukraine’s deteriorating position in the east that …
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