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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s nuclear power company said on Friday the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which requires constant external power to prevent a disaster, was on the verge of a blackout after Russia struck a nearby hydro-electric dam. Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, which was captured by Russian forces shortly after their invasion in …

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By Michael Kahn PRAGUE (Reuters) – War in Ukraine has pushed women into more leadership roles in its growing tech sector, where they are gaining experience and contacts abroad that could help rebuild the economy when the conflict ends, some entrepreneurs, companies and investors say. With most men unable to leave Ukraine, women tech entrepreneurs …

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By Joan Faus ELNE, France (Reuters) -Exiled Catalan separatist Carles Puigdemont will seek to lead the northeastern region in elections in May, he said on Thursday, and would return to Spain should he regain the region’s leadership even if an arrest warrant issued for him remains in force. “Let it be clear that my objective …

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By Anna Voitenko KYIV (Reuters) – Alla Antonova says she suffered beatings, had a plastic bag thrust over her head and endured many other threats from Russian soldiers in occupied Ukraine who wanted to know where her son-in-law was serving in the Ukrainian army. Her mother Natalia Kucherova, 73, was made to sit in an …

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By Graham Fahy DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ireland’s Simon Harris, a 37-year-old politician best known for helping steer the country’s response to COVID-19, entered the contest to become its prime minister on Thursday following Leo Varadkar’s shock exit. Harris, currently the only candidate in the race, will become Ireland’s youngest prime minister if he succeeds. He will …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to open membership talks with Bosnia but also made clear the Balkan country would have to undertake more reforms before talks could actually begin. “The European Council has just decided to open accession negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Charles Michel, the president of the council, posted …

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By Humeyra Pamuk and Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday he believed talks in Qatar could still reach a Gaza ceasefire agreement while Israel attacked Hamas gunmen in the enclave’s Al Shifa hospital and evacuated patients. In Cairo, Blinken met Arab foreign ministers and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah …

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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, increasing to 10 the number of Palestinians killed in the territory over 24 hours, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Since the Gaza war began, Israel has stepped up military raids in the West Bank, where …

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By Tom Balmforth and John O’Donnell LONDON/BERLIN (Reuters) -Ukraine could dismantle within days its “sponsors of war” blacklist, central to Kyiv’s campaign to expose companies doing business with Russia, after a backlash from countries including China and France, two people familiar with the matter said. The people said Ukraine could, as soon as Friday, scrap …

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