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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Water has almost completely flooded the Pioneer gold mine in Russia’s Amur region, where 13 miners are stuck, Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency said on Thursday, citing emergency services. The miners became trapped on March 18 after a rock fall. The Pioneer mine is one of the largest gold mines in …

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By Birsen Altayli and Ali Kucukgocmen ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Bruised and fractured by Tayyip Erdogan’s victory in 2023 general elections, Turkey’s opposition aims to land a blow in Sunday’s local polls, with the future of its biggest hope, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, tied to the outcome. The nationwide municipal votes on March 31 could reinforce …

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PARIS (Reuters) – France is planning to toughen unemployment rules by restricting the period when jobless citizens receive welfare payments, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday. Outlining the government’s plans to further reform the job market, Attal told TF1 television: “One of the options is to reduce the duration of payments. I think it …

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(Reuters) – Russian air defence units on Wednesday downed 16 airborne targets around the city of Belgorod in southern Russia, with no injuries reported on the ground, regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Gladkov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the attacks broke windows and caused other damage to several sites in the town, including …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ahmed Zakot (Reuters) – Israel bombed at least four homes in Rafah on Wednesday, raising new fear among the more than a million Palestinians sheltering in the last refuge on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip that a long-threatened ground assault could be coming. One of the airstrikes killed 11 …

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By Nandita Bose and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Israel has asked the White House to reschedule a high-level meeting on military plans for Gaza’s southern city of Rafah that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had abruptly canceled, officials said on Wednesday, in an apparent bid to ease tensions between the two allies. Netanyahu called off a …

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By Vitalii Hnidyi and Yuliia Dysa KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russia may have used a new type of guided bomb in airstrikes on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv that killed at least one person on Wednesday, local officials said. The officials said four children including a three-month-old baby were among 19 people wounded in Kharkiv …

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By Rodrigo Viga Gaier ITAGUAI, Brazil (Reuters) -The presidents of France and Brazil on Wednesday launched a submarine built in the South American country with French technology in a program that aims to build Brazil’s first nuclear-powered submarine by the end of the decade. Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attended a …

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By Foo Yun Chee and Inti Landauro BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Amazon on Wednesday lost its fight to suspend a requirement regarding its online advertising under EU tech rules after Europe’s top court backed EU regulators, saying EU interests outweigh the U.S. online retailer’s material interests. Under the Digital Services Act (DSA) which kicked in last year, …

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