LONDON (Reuters) -Former Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who captured world attention when she burst into a news broadcast with a placard that read “Stop the war” and “They’re lying to you”, was sentenced in absentia on Wednesday to eight and half years in jail. Ovsyannikova was fined for her original protest, less than three …
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By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Parliament’s environment committee backed former Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra as the EU’s next head of climate change policy on Wednesday, after lawmakers squeezed out extra promises from him to strengthen green measures. Hoekstra and Maros Sefcovic, who is the nominee to lead overall coordination of European Union …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Envoys of the European Union’s 27 member states were meeting in Brussels on Wednesday hoping to overcome a latest spat between Rome and Berlin over charity ships to finalise an agreement on sharing out the task of caring for refugees and migrants. Envoys were meeting at 0730 GMT on an amended text …
By Moira Warburton, Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A handful of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday ousted Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy, as party infighting plunged Congress into further chaos just days after it narrowly averted a government shutdown. The 216-to-210 vote marked the first time in history that the …
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By Jody Godoy and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sam Bankman-Fried’s father and brother, as well as Donald Trump’s former spokesman Anthony Scaramucci, are among possible witnesses at the cryptocurrency exchange founder’s fraud trial, according to a list read by a prosecutor in court on Tuesday. Scaramucci, Bankman-Fried’s father Joseph Bankman and his brother Gabriel …
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By Manuel Silvestri VENICE, Italy (Reuters) -At least 21 people died on Tuesday after a city bus carrying tourists to a campground crashed off an overpass near Venice in northern Italy and caught fire, the city’s prefect Michele Di Bari said. The bus veered off the road and fell close to railway lines in the …
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By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -The Nobel prizes, arguably the world’s most prestigious awards, are to be announced this week. The prizes, with 11 million Swedish crowns (about $1 million) each, are also given for achievements in physics, literature, chemistry and peace. Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and U.S. colleague Drew Weissman, who made mRNA molecule …
PRAGUE/WARSAW (Reuters) – The Czech Republic and Poland took coordinated action on Tuesday to introduce checks along their borders with Slovakia to curb illegal migration flows and smuggler activity, the countries said on Tuesday. The tightened controls will begin on Wednesday and last for 10 days, with the possibility to extend the checks beyond that. …
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(Reuters) – Ukraine’s eastern metropolis of Kharkiv will build the country’s first fully underground school to shield pupils from Russia’s frequent bomb and missile attacks, the city’s mayor said. “Such a shelter will enable thousands of Kharkiv children to continue their safe face-to-face education even during missile threats,” Mayor Ihor Terekhov wrote on the Telegram …
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LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Drunk recruits. Insubordinate soldiers. Convicts. They’re among hundreds of military and civilian offenders who’ve been pressed into Russian penal units known as “Storm-Z” squads and sent to the frontlines in Ukraine this year, according to 13 people with knowledge of the matter, including five fighters in the units. Few live …
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