By Graham Fahy and Karen Cox NENAGH, Ireland (Reuters) -Shane MacGowan’s friends and family sang and danced in the aisles to a rousing rendition of The Pogues’ Christmas anthem “Fairytale of New York” at a joyous funeral marking the singer’s colourful life on Friday. Hundreds of Dubliners had earlier lined the streets singing the same …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s human rights commissioner said on Friday that two arrest warrants issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin and another official over the unlawful wartime deportation of children to Russia had helped to return some of them. The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued warrants in March for the arrest of Putin and children’s …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French far-right leader Marine Le Pen will stand trial alongside 27 others over alleged misuse of EU funds, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Friday, confirming French media reports, charges that Le Pen’s party said it contested. The total of 28 defendants will be brought to court, including Le Pen and her …
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(Reuters) -Russian forces conducted aerial attacks on Thursday in their slow-moving campaign to win control of eastern Ukraine and used smaller attack groups to try to capture the beleaguered town of Avdiivka, the Ukrainian military said. Russia has ramped up its push in recent weeks to try to encircle Avdiivka, which lies less than a …
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By Simon Jessop DUBAI (Reuters) – The French development agency plans to begin inserting disaster relief clauses into its loans to vulnerable countries, its chief told Reuters on the sidelines of the COP28 climate talks. Climate Resilient Debt Clauses (CRDC) allow a country to suspend payments on their debt and use the cash to bolster …
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By Antonia Cimini PARIS (Reuters) – Camille Chaudron was among a dozen people arrested on Thursday while helping climate activists block the Concorde bridge in Paris, next to Parliament, to demand the government spend more on the thermal renovation of buildings. The 33-year-old Instagram influencer helped place cast-iron radiators on the road in an act …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Israeli military, responding on Friday to a Reuters investigation that determined its forces killed a Reuters journalist in southern Lebanon on Oct. 13, said the incident took place in an active combat zone and was under review. Without directly addressing the death of visuals journalist Issam Abdallah, a military statement said Lebanese …
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By Suzanne Plunkett MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – French luxury label Chanel took its annual Metiers d’Art runway show to a rainy northern England street late Thursday where an international fashion crowd viewed a special collection highlighting the brand’s craftwork. Guests including actors Tilda Swinton, Hugh Grant and Kristen Stewart, model Alexa Chung and British rapper …
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By Krisztina Fenyo BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Liora Ruth lit the first candle of Hanukkah with her 6-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son in their rented Budapest flat on Thursday, and thought of everyone they had left behind as they flew out of Israel in the aftermath of the Hamas attacks. The Jewish musician was born in …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s objective to boost the monthly transit capacity for Ukrainian grain through its Black Sea port of Constanta to four million metric tons is edging closer as infrastructure projects advance, the transport minister said on Thursday. Transit through Romania was a record 3 million tons in October alone, minister Sorin Grindeanu said, …
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