By Marco Garcia and Mike Blake MAALAEA, Hawaii (Reuters) -The death toll from the Maui wildfires rose to 80 on Friday as search teams combed through the smoldering ruins of Lahaina, and Hawaiian officials sought to determine how the inferno spread so rapidly through the historic resort town with little warning. The fires became the …
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(Reuters) -Ukrainian military officials said on Saturday that Kyiv’s forces had made progress in the south, capturing unspecified territories and claiming partial success near the key village of Robotyne. “Tavria direction,” General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, commander of Ukrainian forces in the south, wrote on Telegram, referring to the southern front. “There are liberated territories. The defence …
(Reuters) – A civilian was killed and six people were wounded, including a 12-year-old girl, following intense Ukrainian shelling in Donetsk, including cluster munitions, a Russian-installed official in the eastern Ukrainian region said on Saturday. One civilian was killed in a district of the city of Donetsk, while the six wounded people were in Makiivka, …
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ASHGABAT (Reuters) – Turkmenistan warned Russia on Saturday against trying to extend its influence over the Central Asia-China natural gas supply chain after Moscow said more countries could join its “gas union” with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan all pump gas to China via a pipeline crossing the three countries; the lion’s share …
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By Pascal Rossignol CALAIS, France (Reuters) -Six people died after a migrant boat trying to cross the Channel from France to Britain capsized early on Saturday, and another two people were possibly missing, French authorities said. French and UK rescue boats saved nearly 60 migrants and brought them to French or British shores, and search …
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ODESA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Several beaches in Ukraine’s Black Sea city of Odesa have officially opened for swimming for the first time since the start of the Russian invasion, although bathing is banned during air raid alerts, local officials said on Saturday. Odesa, Ukraine’s largest port and naval base, was repeatedly attacked with missiles and …
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By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland should aim to leave the European Union in the long term, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine means European unity should be the priority for now, the far-right Finns Party’s Jussi Halla-aho said ahead of a party congress on Saturday. Halla-aho, author of the anti-immigration party’s “Fixit” policy that envisioned …
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PARIS (Reuters) -Visitors were allowed back in the Eiffel Tower on Saturday about two hours after officials evacuated it due to a bomb threat, a French police source said. “It was a false alarm, people can go back inside,” the source said. (Writing by Ingrid Melander; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Mark Potter)
ROME (Reuters) -Italy said it repatriated 266 ancient artefacts worth tens of millions of euros from the United States, where they had been brought and sold during the late 1990s by an international network of artefact smugglers. The items, the oldest of which date back to the 9th century BC, include works belonging to the …
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KYIV (Reuters) – An elderly woman and a police officer were killed early Saturday by Russian shelling on a settlement in Kharkiv region in eastern Ukraine and Zaporizhzhia in the south, Ukrainian officials said. “This morning, around 5:10, the enemy fired on Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi village in Kupiansk district. A residential building was damaged. A 73-year-old woman …
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