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Ukraine establishes ‘several bridgeheads’ on eastern bank of Dnipro – military

17 Nov 2023 17 Nov 2023

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian troops have conducted a “series of successful operations” on the eastern bank of the River Dnipro in the Russian-occupied part of Kherson region and established several bridgeheads, Kyiv’s military said on Friday. In a statement, the Ukrainian Marines said on their Facebook page that they were continuing to carry out operations …

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Kremlin hopes Putin runs for another term as president

17 Nov 2023 17 Nov 2023

By Guy Faulconbridge and Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) -Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview published on Friday that he hoped President Vladimir Putin would run in the March election for another term as Russian president, a move that would keep Putin in power until at least 2030. Putin, who was handed the presidency …

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EU reaches deal to stop sending waste to countries that can’t process it

17 Nov 2023 17 Nov 2023

PARIS (Reuters) – European Union lawmakers and member states have reached a deal to revise the bloc’s waste shipment regulation and end exports of certain types of waste to third countries unable to process it properly, the EU Parliament said on Friday. “Exports of certain non-hazardous wastes and mixtures of non-hazardous wastes (…) will be …

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EU agrees tougher penalties for environmental crimes

16 Nov 2023 16 Nov 2023

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union on Thursday has agreed tougher penalties for environmental crimes such as importing invasive species and pollution caused by ships. Under the new deal, offences causing death will be punishable with 10 years of prison while firms risk fines of 3 or 5% of their annual worldwide turnover. The agreement …

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Medics fear for patients inside main Gaza hospital, Israel says tunnel shaft found

16 Nov 2023 16 Nov 2023

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ari Rabinovitch GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Palestinian medics said on Thursday they are increasingly afraid for the lives of hundreds of patients and medical staff at Gaza’s biggest hospital, cut off from all links to the outside world for more than a day after Israeli forces entered. Israel said its commandos were still …

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Russian shelling kills two, wounds 12, in Ukraine’s Kherson region

16 Nov 2023 16 Nov 2023

KYIV (Reuters) -Russian shelling killed two people and injured at least 12 on Thursday in different areas of southern Ukraine’s Kherson region, local officials said. Regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said a 75-year-old woman had died in the evening in her apartment in Kherson, the region’s largest town, as Russian forces shelled from the eastern bank …

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Enlargement will protect Western Balkans from malign influences -EU’s Michel

16 Nov 2023 16 Nov 2023

ZAGREB (Reuters) – Enlargement of the European Union will make the wealthy 27-bloc safer and more prosperous and also secure stability and peace for the Western Balkan countries, European Council President Charles Michel said on Thursday. Last week, the EU’s executive commission recommended that Ukraine and Moldova should start negotiations on EU membership pending the …

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Italy’s cabinet backs crack down on women pickpockets

16 Nov 2023 16 Nov 2023

By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) -Italy’s rightist government on Thursday backed a raft of measures to improve public security including potentially tougher penalties for women offenders who are pregnant or have very young children, in a move aimed at pickpockets. The coalition League party had long called for the scrapping of a rule that prevents …

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Evacuees from Gaza land in Spain

16 Nov 2023 16 Nov 2023

MADRID (Reuters) – A military plane carrying 139 people, mostly Spanish-Palestinian citizens and some of their relatives, from Egypt after being evacuated from the besieged Gaza Strip landed in Madrid on Thursday. Spain’s acting Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares and acting Defence Minister Margarita Robles welcomed the evacuees on the runway of the Torrejon de …

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Thousands of Ukrainian children taken to Belarus – Yale research

16 Nov 2023 16 Nov 2023

By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – More than 2,400 children from Ukraine aged between six and 17 years old have been taken to 13 facilities across Belarus since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, research published by Yale University said on Thursday. Ukraine’s prosecutor general said in May that he was investigating the …

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