MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday added Russia’s biggest car dealership – Rolf – to a list of foreign-owned companies put under the temporary management of the Russian state. The transfer of its shares was set out in a decree published on a government website on Friday. Russia has taken temporary control …
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By Bassam Massoud and Maggie Fick GAZA/LONDON (Reuters) -In the morgue of the Nasser Hospital, in southern Gaza, workers wrap the corpses of people killed in Israeli airstrikes in white cloth amid the stench of death. They record whatever basic facts they can about the dead: name, identity card number, age, sex. Some of the …
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ukraine and a group of its Western creditors signed an agreement on Thursday to extend through March 2027 a debt payment suspension first agreed in September 2022, the Ukrainian finance ministry said. “I am grateful to our partners from the G7 countries for understanding Ukraine’s needs in the time of war,” …
By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Bassam Masoud and Dan Williams CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Fighting in the Gaza Strip escalated on Thursday with some of the most intense Israeli bombardment of the war and Hamas demonstrated its ability to rocket Tel Aviv, even as the foes engaged in the most serious talks for weeks on a new truce. …
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By Alan Charlish and Pawel Florkiewicz WARSAW (Reuters) -The Polish president on Thursday denounced as “anarchy” state media reforms announced by Prime Minister Donald Tusk as tensions mounted between the head of state and Tusk’s new pro-European Union administration. The swearing-in this month of a government led by Tusk, a former president of the European …
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(Reuters) – The widow of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been granted political asylum in the U.S., the Washington Post newspaper reported on Thursday. It cited Hanan Elatr as saying “I couldn’t really believe it” after she read the letter informing her of the decision. Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, was murdered on the …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The first 10 weeks of the Israel-Gaza war have been the deadliest recorded for journalists, with the most journalists killed in a single year in one location, the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Thursday. Most of the journalists and media workers killed in the war – 61 out of …
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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian television serial exploring the tragedy wrought by brutal teenage street gangs fighting for survival, money and love in the last years of the crumbling Soviet Union has become a sensation in Russia. The series – “A hoodlum’s promise – blood on the asphalt” – shows the savagery …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s parliament voted for a resolution seeking changes in the National Council of the Judiciary (NCJ), as the new government attempts to undo reforms by the previous administration that critics say politicised the courts. With the European Union having frozen billions of euros in funds earmarked for Poland, because of concern over …
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By Vitalii Hnidyi, Thomas Peter and Max Hunder LYMAN, Ukraine (Reuters) – The few remaining residents in the devastated eastern Ukrainian town of Lyman are preparing for a difficult winter as snow falls and the temperature drops. More than a year after Ukrainian forces drove out Russian troops who occupied Lyman for five months, it’s …
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