ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Overbearing in life but discreet in death, Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was buried quietly in a leafy cemetery on the outskirts of St Petersburg on Tuesday, six days after he was killed in an unexplained plane crash. The funeral took place away from the glare of the media and in …
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MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish regional soccer chiefs demanded federation boss Luis Rubiales resign for grabbing and kissing World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso, as the country’s caretaker government promised on Tuesday to ensure women play a bigger role in running sports. Prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into whether Rubiales might have committed an act of sexual …
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By Stamos Prousalis and Karolina Tagaris EVROS, Greece/ATHENS (Reuters) – A wildfire burning in northeastern Greece for 11 days has destroyed an area larger than New York City, the European Union-backed Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Tuesday, as firefighters from five countries battled to contain the flames. Fuelled by gale force winds and hot …
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By Nandita Bose and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday announced a new package of military assistance to support Ukraine that includes additional air defense and artillery munitions, mine clearing equipment and medical vehicles. The latest package includes additional mine clearing equipment, missiles for air defense, ammunition for artillery and HIMAR …
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By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland has finished inventorying its existing bomb shelters in a government effort prompted by neighbouring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, and found it has 50,500 of them, its interior ministry said. Finland joined the NATO military alliance in April in a historic security policy U-turn but it had …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Prominent Russian nationalist Igor Girkin failed in an appeal on Tuesday against his pre-trial detention on charges of inciting extremism, a Moscow court said. Girkin, also known as Strelkov, has fiercely criticised the way that Russia has conducted the war in Ukraine. He is best known in the West for having been convicted …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Tuesday said that the failure of Russia’s Luna-25 mission to the Moon earlier this month was “nothing terrible” and that the main thing was to continue Russia’s space exploration program. In a call with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “This is not a reason to despair, nor to tear …
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis had no intention of glorifying past Russian imperialism in a speech last week to Russian youths that has come under fire in Ukraine, the Vatican said on Tuesday. “The Pope intended to encourage young people to preserve and promote all that is positive in the great Russian cultural and …
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YALTA, Crimea (Reuters) – In years past, Siberian Viktor Motorin could hop on a plane and arrive in Crimea just four hours later to relax at his holiday apartment. Now he must fly first to Moscow and then spend a day and a half on the train. The war in Ukraine, now 18 months old, …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly will visit China on Aug. 30, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday, in a long-awaited trip seeking to stabilise a turbulent relationship that has sunk to its lowest point in decades. “The two sides will have in-depth exchanges on issues of concern,” spokesperson Wang Wenbin remarked when …
