(Reuters) – Russia’s military said on Wednesday its air defence forces had shot down two long-range U.S.-made ATACM missiles fired by Ukraine at Russian targets in what state media said was the first downing of its kind. Russia’s defence ministry reported the interception in one of its regular updates on the war in Ukraine, something …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a Russian drone attack early on Wednesday in western Khmelnitskyi region had probably targeted the area’s nuclear power station. The attack shattered windows at the plant and injured 20 people. The International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, said blasts from the drone attack did not …
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By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) -Air Canada did the right thing in apologizing to a British lawmaker named Mohammad Yasin who was recently singled out for additional questioning while flying to and from Canada, the country’s transport minister said on Wednesday. Canadian Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez said “we called Air Canada” after hearing about the …
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By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) – Russia has successfully tested its ability to deliver a massive retaliatory nuclear strike by land, sea and air, a Kremlin statement said on Wednesday, a display of force which coincides with Moscow de-ratifying a landmark nuclear test ban treaty. The exercise, which involved the test launch of missiles from a …
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By Jonathan Stempel, Diane Bartz and Nate Raymond (Reuters) – Dozens of U.S. states are suing Meta Platforms and its Instagram unit, accusing them of fueling a youth mental health crisis by making their social media platforms addictive. In a complaint filed on Tuesday, the attorneys general of 33 states including California and New York …
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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) – Racism towards Black people is growing in Europe, with Germany, Austria and Finland showing the highest rates of discrimination and harassment, a survey of first- and second-generation Black immigrants in 13 EU countries published on Wednesday found. The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), which commissioned the survey …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italy will support the creation of a European Union naval mission to patrol maritime borders, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told parliament on Wednesday. “Italy will support … the creation of a European naval mission, in agreement and cooperation with the North African authorities,” Meloni told the Senate ahead of a meeting of …
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ROME (Reuters) – Europe must not weaken its common support to Ukraine as it offers solidarity to Israel following the devastating attack by Islamist group Hamas earlier this month, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Wednesday. “We must not make the mistake of weakening our common support to Ukraine,” Meloni told the Senate ahead …
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By Vitalii Hnidyi KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) – Andrii Ilkiv, a Ukrainian police sapper, had his leg amputated below the knee after a land mine blew up beneath him in September 2022. By May the following year he was back at work, standing on a prosthetic limb, sweeping for and defusing mines. The 37-year-old father …
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By Filipp Lebedev and Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) – Russia’s parliament completed the passage of a law on Wednesday that withdraws Moscow’s ratification of the global treaty banning nuclear weapons tests. The upper house, the Federation Council approved the law by 156 votes to zero after the lower house, the Duma, had also passed it unanimously. …
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