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VILNIUS (Reuters) – An assault on Leonid Volkov, a top aide to the late Alexei Navalny, in Vilnius on Tuesday was professional and well planned, the head of Lithuania’s governmental crisis management centre said on Thursday according to local media. “The more we investigate, the clearer it becomes that the operation was professional, well planned,” …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Russian-controlled management of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, said on Thursday that the Ukrainian army had shelled a critical infrastructure facility at the plant. An explosive device was dropped near a fence where diesel fuel tanks are located, the plant reported. “Such attacks are unacceptable,” it said. It …

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By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – Fabiano Pompei’s family has run a news kiosk close to Rome’s imposing St. John Lateran Basilica since 1948. Marco Volpini’s family owned one near the Trevi Fountains for a century. Both used to be thriving businesses, but a prolonged slump in newspaper sales has forced Pompei and Volpini to …

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis has no intention of resigning as he feels that his health is good enough to allow him to carry on, he says in a new book whose excerpts were published by Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper on Thursday. “This is a distant hypothesis, because I don’t have reasons serious enough …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Four people were killed in overnight Russian drone and bomb attacks in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy and eastern Donetsk regions, local officials said on Wednesday. Russian forces dropped a bomb on Myrnohrad town in Donetsk region, killing two and injuring five people, local governor Vadym Filashkin said on the Telegram messaging app. The Sumy …

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ATHENS (Reuters) -The European Commission said on Wednesday it was taking Greece to the EU’s top court for failing to revise its flood risk management plans, a key tool for EU countries to prepare themselves against floods. The action comes five months after the worst rains in Greece flooded its fertile Thessaly plain, devastating crops …

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By David Gauthier-Villars, Laila Bassam and Tom Perry ISTANBUL (Reuters) – An Israeli tank killed Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon last year by firing two 120 mm rounds at a group of “clearly identifiable journalists” in violation of international law, a U.N. investigation into the Oct. 13 incident has found. The investigation by the …

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