CAIRO (Reuters) – British maritime security firm Ambrey said on Saturday it had received information that a vessel had been targeted around 61 nautical miles southwest of Hodeidah in Yemen. Separately, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said it had received a report of an incident at almost the same point where the captain …
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained twice by police at a demonstration in The Hague, the Netherlands, for several hours on Saturday. Thunberg was initially detained and held for a short time by local police along with other protesters who tried to block a major highway into The Hague. After she …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – The European Union’s naval mission in the southern Red Sea said on Saturday it had intercepted a Houthi missile to protect merchant ships. The EU’s mission, known as Aspides, said in a press release that the German frigate “Hessen” had intercepted a missile attack from Houthi controlled territories. “The action performed by …
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ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece brought a wildfire under control on the island of Crete on Saturday that forced dozens to flee their homes, the fire department said, with authorities on alert due to strong winds. The blaze that broke out earlier in the day, fanned by strong winds, spread across the slopes of the mountainous forest …
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By Isabelle Yr Carlsson COPENHAGEN(Reuters) – Residents in Copenhagen’s famous hippie enclave Christiania began digging up its main street known for its cannabis trade on Saturday, hoping to free the area of criminal gangs following multiple deadly shootings. After tolerating the illegal sale of cannabis for more than 50 years in the former army barracks …
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(This April 5 story has been corrected to say that Gaza suffers widespread hunger, not famine, in paragraph 2 and adds context on United Nations warnings of imminent famine in Gaza in paragraph 11) By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Representative Nancy Pelosi, former House speaker and a key ally of Joe Biden, signed a …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces are still in control of the town of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine despite attempts by Russian troops to break through their defences, Commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Saturday. Russia’s RIA news agency on Friday cited an official as saying Russian forces had entered the suburbs of the town, which …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian descent vehicle landed safely in Kazakhstan on Saturday, returning from the International Space station with astronauts from Russia, Belarus and the United States, live footage broadcast by Russia’s Roscosmos space agency showed. Russian Oleg Novitsky and Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya departed for the ISS last month on a Soyuz spacecraft. They returned …
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(Corrects to say Bureau For Reintegration not Reintroduction in paragraph 6) By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) -A kamikaze drone hit a military facility belonging to the defence ministry of pro-Russian separatist authorities in Moldova’s breakaway Transdniestria region, its security ministry said on Friday. A message posted by the ministry said the target was six km …
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By Jeff Mason, Doina Chiacu and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s demand this week that Israel improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza and support a ceasefire drew sharp attacks both from frustrated political allies who said the U.S. president did not go far enough and opponents who said he went too far. On Thursday …
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