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Climate protesters in New York and across the globe send message to United Nations

18 Sep 2023 18 Sep 2023

(Reuters) – Thousands of protesters kicked off “Climate Week” and filled the streets of Midtown, Manhattan, on Sunday ahead of the U.N. General Assembly this week, calling for President Joe Biden and world leaders to end fossil fuel use. With parades, concerts, and banging drums, some of the 15,000 expected waved signs that read “End …

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Ukraine media say Sevastopol explosions due to special operation

17 Sep 2023 17 Sep 2023

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian media outlets quoted intelligence sources as saying explosions reported in the Crimean city of Sevastopol on Sunday were due to a joint operation by its forces but a Moscow-installed official said Russia’s enemies were trying to claim false victory. Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-installed governor of Sevastopol, home to Russian’s Black Sea …

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Russia defence ministry says forces downed Ukrainian drones over Crimea

17 Sep 2023 17 Sep 2023

(Reuters) – Russia’s defence ministry said its forces downed three Ukrainian drones over southwestern Crimea on Sunday evening. The ministry said air defence systems destroyed one drone at about 9:30 p.m. Moscow time, an hour after it said its forces downed another two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the same area. Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-installed …

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Ukraine general says Klishchiivka village near Bakhmut recaptured

17 Sep 2023 17 Sep 2023

(Reuters) – The general in command of Ukraine’s ground forces said on Sunday that Ukrainian forces had recaptured the eastern village of Klishchiivka on the southern flank of Bakhmut, which the Russians claimed control of in January. “Klishchiivka was cleared of the Russians and liberated,” Alexander Syrskyi, commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, said in a …

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Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate spray-painted by climate activists

17 Sep 2023 17 Sep 2023

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Climate activists sprayed orange and yellow paint on the columns of Berlin’s landmark Brandenburg Gate on Sunday to push demands for a stop to the use of fossil fuels by 2030. “Members of the so-called ‘Last Generation’ sprayed the columns on the east side of the Brandenburg Gate with orange paint from …

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Sporadic protests continue in Iran as Mahsa Amini anniversary passes

17 Sep 2023 17 Sep 2023

DUBAI (Reuters) – Sporadic protests continued in Iran on Sunday amid a widespread crackdown by security forces a year after a young Kurdish woman’s death in custody set off some of the worst political unrest in four decades. The death on Sept. 16 last year of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman arrested by the …

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Ukraine drones strike Crimea, Moscow, oil depot, Russia says

17 Sep 2023 17 Sep 2023

(Reuters) -Russia said it had thwarted a coordinated Ukrainian attack on Crimea early on Sunday, while drones also targeted Moscow, disrupting air traffic in the capital, and caused a fire at an oil depot in the southwest of the country. Ukraine in recent days has launched a series of strikes on Russian military targets in …

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Thousands in Australia rally for struggling Indigenous referendum

17 Sep 2023 17 Sep 2023

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Thousands rallied in Australia on Sunday to support recognising the country’s Indigenous people in the constitution, a proposal that is struggling ahead of a referendum next month. If approved on Oct. 14, the measure would enshrine Indigenous people in the constitution and set up an advisory body to give Aboriginal and Torres …

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Storm Lee makes landfall in Canada, downing trees and knocking out power

17 Sep 2023 17 Sep 2023

By John Morris LOCKEPORT, Nova Scotia (Reuters) -Lee made landfall as a post-tropical cyclone packing hurricane-force winds in a far western part of Canada’s Nova Scotia province on Saturday, flooding roads, downing trees and cutting out power for tens of thousands of people along the North Atlantic coast. At least one storm-related fatality was recorded …

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Russian missiles hit agriculture facility in Odesa – Ukraine’s Air Force

17 Sep 2023 17 Sep 2023

(Reuters) -Russia launched a combined drone and missile attack on Ukraine early on Sunday, targeting chiefly the southern parts of the Odesa region and hitting an agriculture facility there, Ukraine’s Air Forces said on the Telegram messaging app. Russia launched six Iranian-made Shahed drones and 10 cruise missiles, with Ukraine’s forces destroying six drones and …

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