(This March 4 story has been corrected to fix a typo in paragraph 14) By Charlotte Van Campenhout, Marta Fiorin and Piroschka van der Wouw HERKENBOSCH (Reuters) – Four decades after being diagnosed with a serious heart condition and given just six months to live, Bert Janssen has set a Guinness World Record as the …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Former U.S. leader Donald Trump will not give money to help Ukraine fight Russia if he wins the presidency again and that will hasten an end to the war, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said after meeting him. Nationalist premier Orban, who is backing his long-time ally’s bid to return to White …
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By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Emma Stone claimed her second Academy Award on Sunday, winning the best actress trophy for her role as a woman revived from the dead in the dark comedy “Poor Things.” An emotional and flustered Stone began her speech by explaining that her mint green strapless gown had just ripped …
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders said on Monday he had met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and pledged his full support to Israel in fighting terrorism. Wilders, who is aiming to lead a new government after his nationalist PVV party won elections in November, has long been a staunch supporter of Israel. …
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By Sergio Goncalves and Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal’s centre-right Democratic Alliance was poised to finish first in Sunday’s parliamentary election, according to the early tally, but short of an outright majority, suggesting tough negotiations ahead with the far-right that made huge gains. The populist, far-right Chega party came third with over 19% of the …
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(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday dismissed Pope Francis’s call for talks with Russia as “virtual mediation” from a distance. Zelenskiy, in his nightly video address, did not refer directly to Francis or his remarks, but said the pope’s ideas had nothing to do with efforts by religious figures in Ukraine to help …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Portugal’s centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) was poised to win the most votes in Sunday’s parliamentary election, but well short of a full majority, three exit polls showed, putting the AD in the 27.6%-33% range, just ahead of the incumbent Socialists. The polls published by the three main television channels SIC, RTP and …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told a German newspaper that at least 13,000 “terrorists” were among Palestinians killed during Israel’s air and ground assault on Gaza. Five months into Israel’s campaign following the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, Palestinian health authorities say nearly 31,000 Palestinians have been killed. The …
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LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) -By Yiannis Kourtoglou and Stamos Prousalis A ship carrying tonnes of food for Gaza remained docked in a Cyprus port on Sunday as preparations were underway to launch a yet untested maritime aid route to the enclave, where the United Nations estimates a quarter of the population faces starvation. The Open Arms, …
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(Reuters) – Ukraine’s foreign minister, responding to Pope Francis’s call to show “the courage of the white flag” and negotiate an end to the war with Russia, said on Sunday that Kyiv would never capitulate and told the Vatican to pay special heed to its role in World War Two. Francis made the comments in …
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