KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian officials pressed on with a campaign to remove Soviet-era monuments on Saturday as authorities in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv dismantled a statue of a Red Army commander from a central boulevard. Ukraine has doubled down on efforts to erase all traces of Russian rule amid a full-scale invasion by Kremlin troops, …
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KYIV (Reuters) – One civilian was killed and another wounded after Russian forces dropped an explosive from a drone on a town in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, authorities said on Saturday. Prosecutors opened a war crimes investigation into the incident, which occurred around 10 a.m. (0800 GMT) in the town of Beryslav. Both …
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ROME (Reuters) – Three elderly people were killed when fire swept through a hospital overnight in the town of Tivoli, close to Rome, Italian media reported on Saturday. A fourth body was found in the mortuary of the San Giovanni Evangelista hospital but that victim was believed to have died before the blaze broke out …
MADRID (Reuters) – The Spanish Prime Minister on Saturday condemned the actions of Guatemalan prosecutors as a “threat to democracy” after they questioned the election victory of the country’s President-elect Bernardo Arevalo. “I want to show my most absolute rejection of the actions of the Public Ministry of Guatemala that threaten democracy and the will …
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PARIS (Reuters) -Six teenagers go on trial behind closed doors on Monday in connection with the beheading of French history teacher Samuel Paty in 2020, a murder that shocked the country. The teacher had shown his pupils caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a class on freedom of expression, angering some Muslim parents. Most Muslims …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Russian warplanes fired 19 long-range missiles at targets in Ukraine on Friday, killing one civilian in a central region, wounding eight and damaging an industrial facility and power lines, Ukrainian officials said. On the 1,000-km (600-mile) front line in the war against Russia, Ukrainian officials said Moscow’s forces pressed on with a drive …
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By Bassam Masoud and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel sharply increased strikes on the Gaza Strip, pounding the length of the Palestinian enclave and killing hundreds in a new, expanded phase of the war, as the U.S. on Friday again signalled that Israel could do more to protect civilians in the enclave. The Israeli …
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PARIS (Reuters) – The Louvre art museum in Paris will hike its basic entrance fee next year by 29%, adding to concerns that visitors coming to Paris for next year’s Olympic Games will face spiralling costs. The Louvre, which houses the Mona Lisa and is the world’s most visited museum, said in a statement on …
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(Reuters) -The Ukrainian parliament on Friday approved three bills necessary to start European Union accession talks, including one on national minorities’ rights, a critical demand from Hungary which opposes Ukraine’s EU bid. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed all three bills into law and described them as a key step in Ukraine’s application to join the 27-member …
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PARIS (Reuters) -A French court on Friday convicted six teenagers in connection with the 2020 beheading of history teacher Samuel Paty, whose murder shocked the country. The teacher had shown his pupils caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a class on freedom of expression, angering some Muslim parents. Most Muslims avoid depictions of prophets, considering …
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