By David Morgan, Richard Cowan and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Tuesday took a step forward on a bipartisan bill meant to stop the government from shutting down in just five days, while the House sought to push ahead with a conflicting measure backed only by Republicans. The Senate voted 77-19 …
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By Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will enforce stronger border controls with Poland and the Czech Republic to help fight human trafficking, the country’s interior minister said on Tuesday as a migration surge fuels support for the far-right ahead of local elections. The country has taken in around 1 million Ukrainian refugees over the …
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By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com on Tuesday and asked the court to consider forcing the online retailer to sell assets as the government accuses Big Tech of monopolizing the most lucrative parts of the internet. The FTC accused Amazon, a company started …
By David Ljunggren and Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons lower chamber on Tuesday said he would quit, a few days after he publicly praised a former Nazi soldier in Parliament in an incident that Russia said helped justify its war on Ukraine. Anthony Rota told legislators he had …
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By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) – Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, lost his appeal on Tuesday against a new 19-year prison term that extends his total sentence to more than 30 years. After a hearing that was closed to the media, despite protests from Navalny and his lawyers, he stood in his black …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – A Ukrainian captain of a cruise liner was sentenced to five and a half years in prison in Hungary on Tuesday for his role in a 2019 accident in which his boat hit and sank a smaller boat on the River Danube, killing 25 South Korean tourists and two crew. In the …
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(Reuters) -England’s youth teams will not play against Russia, the Football Association (FA) said on Tuesday, after UEFA announced plans to reinstate Russia’s Under-17 sides to European competition for the first time since the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Following the invasion, which Moscow calls a “special military operation”, European soccer’s governing body decided in February …
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By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Denis Balibouse MARTIGNY, Switzerland (Reuters) – St. Bernard dogs, one of Switzerland’s national symbols that were internationally renowned for helping in alpine rescues, are now saving people in other ways. The Barry Foundation – a non-profit that took over breeding of the dog in 2005 from the world’s oldest St. Bernard …
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KYIV (Reuters) -A cargo vessel left a Ukrainian Black Sea port on Tuesday after loading, an industry source said, without giving any further details. The vessel was the latest to set off from a Ukrainian Black Sea port since Kyiv established a temporary “humanitarian corridor” hugging the coastline following Russia’s decision to quit a deal …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russia hit Ukrainian port infrastructure and grain storage facilities in an overnight drone strike on the grain exporting district of Izmail, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday. Oleh Kiper, governor of the southern Odesa region which includes the Danube River ports of Izmail and Reni, said a border checkpoint building, storage facilities and …
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