TENERIFE, Canary Islands, Spain (Reuters) – An 80-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly throwing stones at a helicopter being used to extinguish a wildfire that has been raging on the Spanish island of Tenerife for nearly a week. The stones hit the blades of the helicopter, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Two educational workers were killed and three other people wounded in a Russian attack on a school in the city of Romny in the Sumy region of northeastern Ukraine, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Wednesday. He said two people were still under the rubble. (Reporting by Anna Pruchnicka and Kyiv newsroom, …
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ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek firefighters supported by aircraft battled a raging wildfire next to Athens for a second day on Wednesday, as the authorities said heat and strong winds could spark more blazes in a country where 20 people have already been killed. Hundreds of people have evacuated their homes across the country since fires erupted …
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By Alexandros Avramidis and Alkis Konstantinidis ALEXANDROUPOLIS, Greece (Reuters) -Eighteen burned bodies, possibly migrants, were found on Tuesday in a rural area in northern Greece where wildfires were burning out of control for a fourth day, authorities said, as gale force winds fanned blazes across the country. In the nearby port town of Alexandroupolis, dozens …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday it had thwarted the latest Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow but three people were killed in a drone strike near the Ukrainian border. The governor of Belgorod region, which neighbours Ukraine and has come under frequent attack, said the drone hit a sanatorium in a village. He said …
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By David Gauthier-Villars and Gleb Stolyarov DUBAI (Reuters) – A Ural Airlines Airbus landed in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on Nov. 14 last year. Then it remained grounded on the tarmac. Three days later, a spare part crucial for navigation systems with a declared value of over a quarter of a million dollars, made …
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By Bryan Woolston and Rollo Ross CATHEDRAL CITY, California (Reuters) – Storm Hilary flooded streets, downed power lines and triggered mudslides across Southern California on Monday after unleashing record-breaking downpours overnight, but no U.S. deaths were attributed to the storm and fears of disaster dissipated. Hilary arrived in California as a rare tropical storm that …
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(Reuters) – Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev, who is now a deputy chair of the Russian security council, said Russia may annex Georgia’s breakaway regions South Ossetia and Abkhazia. “The idea of joining Russia is still popular in Abkhazia and South Ossetia,” he wrote in an article published early on Wednesday by Russian newspaper Argumenty …
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(Reuters) – The Russian air force hit what it called “a control post” of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham jihadist group close to the Syrian city of Idlib on Monday, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit was quoted as telling RIA news agency on Tuesday. According to Kulit, who serves as deputy head of the Russian Reconciliation Centre for …
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(Reuters) – Russia’s air force scrambled two jets to force two drones to stop reconnaissance near the Crimean peninsula, the Russian defence ministry said on Tuesday. “On August 22, the flight of two unmanned aerial vehicles MQ-9 Reaper and TB2 Bayraktar carrying out aerial reconnaissance in the area of the Crimean Peninsula was recorded over …
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