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By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met with wounded Ukrainian soldiers at a New York City hospital on Monday ahead of his address to world leaders at the United Nations. In his first in-person visit to the 193-member world body since Russia’s February 2022 invasion, Zelenskiy is due to speak …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius will not take part at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at German Ramstein U.S. Air Base on Tuesday due to COVID-19 infection, a spokesperson for the ministry said on Monday. The meeting of allies assisting Ukraine has been highly anticipated and comes as the United States …

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(This Sept. 17 story has been corrected to clarify that while the town of Rava-Ruska is now in Ukraine, the site of the Belzec camp is in Poland in paragraph 5) By Philip Pullella (Reuters) – Wartime Pope Pius XII knew details about the Nazi attempt to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust as early as …

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BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, the office of the Brazilian presidency said on Monday. Lula has advocated the creation of a group of nations to mediate an end to the …

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By Emma Farge and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) -The human rights situation in Russia has significantly deteriorated since it invaded Ukraine in February last year, a United Nations expert said on Monday, describing a “systematic crackdown” on civil society and calling for redress. The report by Special Rapporteur Mariana Katzarova alleges that Russian authorities have …

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By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -Climate change and conflict are hitting efforts to tackle three of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has warned. International initiatives to fight the diseases have largely recovered after being badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the …

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By Yara Nardi LAMPEDUSA, Italy (Reuters) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday visited the Italian island of Lampedusa, which is struggling with a surge in migrant arrivals, and promised a 10-point EU action plan to help Italy deal with the situation. Nearly 126,000 migrants have arrived in Italy so far this …

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