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(Reuters) – U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich has appealed against the latest extension of his pre-trial detention in Moscow on spying charges that he denies, Russian state media said on Saturday. TASS news agency quoted a Moscow court as saying it had received the appeal from the defence team of the Wall Street Journal reporter. Gershkovich …

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DUBAI (Reuters) -The United States should explain its links to the Iranian-German national Jamshid Sharmahd sentenced to death in Iran, Tehran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday, adding that progress had been made in a prisoner swap deal with Washington. Nasser Kanaani’s remarks came after a U.S. envoy for Iran, Abram Paley, met on Friday …

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(Reuters) – Russian air defences downed two Ukrainian drones over Russian-annexed Crimea on Monday, Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-appointed head of the region, wrote on the Telegram messaging app. He said one drone was downed in the northern part of the Black Sea peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014, and the other one in …

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ATHENS (Reuters) – Four migrants drowned off the Greek island of Lesbos while trying to cross the sea from nearby Turkey, the coast guard said on Monday, adding that 18 others were rescued. The coast guard did not give further details. Greece is one of the European Union’s main entry points for migrants and refugees …

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Vanuatu’s parliament speaker has appealed a court decision that found a vote of no-confidence in Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau had been won by opposition parties, prolonging a political crisis in the Pacific Islands nation. Vanuatu, at the centre of a strategic rivalry between China and Western countries in the region, was plunged …

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By Nick Starkov KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, responding to calls by a US senator this week to announce elections in 2024, said on Sunday voting could take place during wartime if partners shared the cost, legislators approved, and everyone got to the polls. Elections cannot currently be held in Ukraine under martial …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian investigators said on Sunday that genetic tests had confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner mercenary group, was among the 10 people killed in a plane crash last week. Russia’s aviation agency had previously published the names of all 10 on board the private jet which crashed in the Tver region …

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By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) – Protesters demanding an end to authoritarian rule shut the ruling Baath party headquarters in the southwestern Syrian Druze city of Sweida as protests which entered their second week showed no signs of abating, civic activists and witnesses said. Youths with welding machines sealed the gates of the building of …

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