By Corina Pons PUERTO DE LA CRUZ, Canary Islands, Spain (Reuters) – The number of German visitors to Spain’s Canary Islands has slumped as their country suffers a recession – but tourists from elsewhere seeking cooler summer temperatures amid global heatwaves are picking up the slack. The Atlantic Ocean archipelago off the coast of Africa …
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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine is seeing “significant results” from U.S. and German air defence systems, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, despite waves of Russian air strikes that Kyiv says targeted civilians and residential buildings. Russia reported it had shot down a drone heading for Moscow in the third such attack in a …
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By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Eight Amazon rainforest nations are expected to face divisions over proposals to block new oil drilling and end deforestation when they meet on Tuesday for their first summit in 14 years. The meeting of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) gathers heads of state from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, …
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By Philip Pullella ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) -Pope Francis said on Sunday that the Catholic Church is open to everyone, including the gay community, and that it has a duty to accompany them on a personal path of spirituality but within the framework of its rules. Francis, speaking to reporters on the plane returning …
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KYIV (Reuters) -A woman was killed early on Monday when Russian forces shelled the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, while two other people were killed in Russian shelling of border areas of the Kharkiv region in northeast Ukraine, officials said. Both the city of Kherson and parts of the Kharkiv region are directly adjacent to …
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(Reuters) – Russia will evacuate a village in its far east on Aug. 11 as part of the launch of Russia’s first lunar lander mission in nearly half a century, a local official said on Monday. The Luna-25 lunar lander, Russia’s first since 1976, will be launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, some 3,450 miles (5,550 …
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By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian inquiry said in a report on Monday that it had found serious misconduct by a public prosecutor in connection with the trial of a former political staffer accused of raping a colleague in Parliament House. Brittany Higgins, an ex-staffer for former defence industry minister Linda Reynolds, went …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A Tel Aviv municipal patrol officer has died, Israeli officials said on Saturday, after being shot by a Palestinian on a street in central Tel Aviv. The suspected shooter was then shot dead by another municipal patrol worker, Tel Aviv’s mayor Ron Huldai told Israel’s public broadcaster. A statement from the Israeli police …
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(Reuters) -A senior Ukrainian official said on Sunday that talks in Saudi Arabia to make headway towards a peaceful settlement of the war with Russia had been productive, but Moscow called the meeting a doomed attempt to swing the Global South behind Kyiv. More than 40 countries, including China, India, the United States, and European …
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By Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish pipeline operator PERN said it had halted pumping through a section of the Druzhba pipeline, which connects Russia to Europe, after detecting a leak in central Poland on Saturday, but it expects flows to resume on Tuesday. PERN said there was no indication a third party had caused the …
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