(Reuters) -Two Russian missiles struck a residential area in the centre of Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv on Tuesday, injuring 17 people, two of them seriously, and badly damaging homes, local officials said. Rescue teams were sifting through piles of rubble to establish whether others were hurt. The city’s mayor described two “powerful explosions” and said …
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By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) – A rights activist in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan was sentenced to four years in a penal colony on Wednesday after a court found him guilty of inciting ethnic hatred, prompting clashes between his supporters and police. Independent Russian-language news outlets said police fired tear gas and made arrests after …
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DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) – Freezing rain in central and southern Germany grounded hundreds of flights and restricted train traffic on Wednesday as the weather service warned of slippery roads and heavy snowfall. At Frankfurt airport, 570 of the 1,047 scheduled arrivals and departures were cancelled, while 254 flights were scratched at Munich airport and a …
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VORONEZH, Russia (Reuters) -A state of emergency was declared in the southern Russian city of Voronezh on Tuesday after a Ukrainian drone attack wounded a 6-year-old boy and a young girl, officials said. Russia’s defence ministry said five Ukrainian drones were destroyed by air defences over the Voronezh region and three more were intercepted. It …
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(This Jan. 10 story has been corrected to clarify that Alexander von Bismarck is not a direct descendant of Germany’s founding chancellor, but a distant relative, in paragraph 17) By Thomas Escritt and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) – The far-right opposition party Alternative for Germany said on Wednesday it had no plans to pursue deportation …
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By Tim Reid, Nathan Layne and Gabriella Borter DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – Donald Trump secured a resounding win in the first 2024 Republican presidential contest in Iowa on Monday, asserting his command over the party despite facing scores of criminal charges as he seeks an election rematch with President Joe Biden. Trump took over …
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Three armed drones were shot down on Tuesday over Erbil airport in northern Iraq, where U.S. and other international forces are stationed, Iraqi Kurdistan’s counter-terrorism service said. A statement from the service did not say if there were any casualties or damage to infrastructure. Tuesday’s attack came hours after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Elvira Nabiullina, the governor of Russia’s central bank, has cancelled a scheduled appearance at an exhibition in Moscow on Tuesday. No reason was given for her absence. The central bank declined to comment. Nabiullina, who has led the Bank of Russia since 2013, had been due to speak at the ‘Finance Day’ forum …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Fadi Shana and Ari Rabinovitch DOHA/GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Hamas appeared to show the dead bodies of two Israeli hostages on Monday after warning Israel they might be killed if it did not stop its bombardment of Gaza. A new video released by the Palestinian militant group purportedly showed the bodies of Yossi …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has filed a lawsuit in a St Petersburg court seeking to nationalise car dealership Rolf, the court said late on Monday, just weeks after Moscow put the asset under the state’s temporary management. St Petersburg’s Moskovskiy District Court said it had accepted a lawsuit filed by prosecutors, which …
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