By Divya Rajagopal TORONTO (Reuters) – An unusually warm winter in Canada this year has delayed the opening of a 400-kilometer (250-mile) ice road that is rebuilt every year as the main conduit for Rio Tinto, Burgundy Mines , and De Beers to access their diamond mines in the remote Arctic region. The Winter Road, …
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VIENNA (Reuters) – Eleven people were injured when a Bulgarian cruise ship crashed into a concrete wall in a sluice on the River Danube in the northern Austrian town of Aschach an der Donau overnight, local police said on Saturday. Some 160 passengers were aboard the ship traveling from Bavaria in Germany to the Austrian …
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By Alvise Armellini VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis cancelled at the last minute his attendance at the Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum, in what the Vatican described as a bid “to preserve his health” ahead of more Easter week engagements. Francis’ agenda for the next two days consists of an Easter Vigil service on …
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(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview published on Friday that if Ukraine does not get promised U.S. military aid blocked by disputes in Congress, its forces will have to retreat “in small steps”. “If there is no U.S. support, it means that we have no air defence, no Patriot missiles, no jammers …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Friday the U.S. will impose costs for Russia’s “appalling attempts” to use Americans as bargaining chips in a statement to mark the one-year anniversary of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich’s arrest in Russia. Gershkovich, 32, became the first U.S. journalist arrested on spying …
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(Corrects ninth paragraph to show Gossett was nominated for an Emmy award eight times, not seven.) By Patricia Reaney and Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win an Academy Award as best supporting actor, has died aged 87, a family statement confirmed on Friday without revealing the cause of …
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ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis will not attend a Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum to protect his health ahead of other Easter week engagements, the Vatican said. (Reporting by Alvise Armellini, editing by Angus MacSwan)
(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pressed on with changes to officials close to him on Friday, dismissing two deputy heads of his office and appointing a former top security official ambassador to neighbouring Moldova. A presidential decree announced the dismissal of Andriy Smyrnov, who was responsible for legal policy matters, and Oleksiy Dniprov, who …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) -Israel carried out its deadliest strikes in months on northern Syria’s Aleppo province early on Friday and said it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, stepping up its campaign against Iran’s proxies in parallel with its war in Gaza. Israel has ramped up airstrikes in Syria against both the Lebanese Hezbollah militia …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Moscow district court ruled on Friday that the ninth suspect in the March 22 concert hall attack in which more than 140 people were killed should be held in custody until May 22 pending trial. The Basmanny District Court said in a statement that Lutfulloi Nazrimad, a native of Tajikistan, had …
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