By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Pro-war Russian nationalist Igor Girkin, who is in custody awaiting trial for inciting extremism, has said he wants to run for president in the March 2024 election, his supporters said, citing a letter from prison. Girkin, who is also known by the alias Igor Strelkov, has repeatedly warned that Russia …
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(Reuters) -Russia launched several waves of drone attacks on Kyiv early on Sunday for the second night in row, stepping up its assaults on the Ukrainian capital after several weeks of pause, the city’s military administration said. “The enemy’s UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) were launched in many groups and attacked Kyiv in waves, from different …
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By Raul Cadenas Susana Vera MADRID (Reuters) – About 170,000 people marched through Madrid on Saturday in the largest protest yet against an amnesty law which Spain’s Socialists agreed over Catalonia’s 2017 separatist bid in order to form a government. The demonstration, the latest in a series of protests in cities across the country against …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and James Mackenzie KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel, the United States and Hamas have reached a tentative agreement to free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting, the Washington Post reported, citing people familiar with the deal. However, both Israeli Prime Minister …
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By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) -Russian drones hit infrastructure facilities in Ukraine in an overnight assault that caused power outages in more than 400 towns and villages in the south, southeast, and north of the country, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy congratulated the air force for shooting down what it said were …
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SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – At least 300 people protested in El Salvador on Saturday against an anti-gang crackdown they said was putting innocent people behind bars, hours before the Central American country hosts the Miss Universe competition for the first time since 1975. Some constitutional guarantees have been suspended since March 2022 in a controversial …
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By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) – Dozens of migrants stood behind barriers at two crossings on Finland’s border with Russia on Saturday, the Finnish Border Guard said, after Helsinki erected barricades to halt a flow of asylum seekers it says was instigated by Moscow. The Finnish government has accused Russia of funnelling migrants to the …
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By Janis Laizans JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The families of Israeli hostages and thousands of their supporters arrived in Jerusalem on Saturday at the end of a five-day march to confront the government over the plight of those taken captive by Hamas in Gaza. An estimated 20,000 marchers, including well-wishers who joined the procession along the main …
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah and Israel traded rocket and missile fire in areas near the Lebanese-Israeli border on Saturday, officials on both sides said, in the latest flare-up of violence which the United States worries will cause conflict to spiral in the Middle East. The Iran-backed Hezbollah said it shot down an Israeli drone near …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s interior ministry has placed Sergei Aleksashenko, formerly a deputy governor of the Bank of Russia and a deputy finance minister, on its wanted list, Russian state news agencies TASS and RIA reported on Saturday. Aleksashenko, who has criticised Russia’s war in Ukraine, has been living in exile in the United States …
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