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By David Ljunggren and Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie said on Wednesday they were separating in an unexpected announcement that appeared to mark the end of the couple’s 18-year high-profile marriage. The couple had talked frankly in the past about difficulties in their relationship and in recent …

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By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied territory are being forced to assume Russian citizenship or face harsh retaliation, including possible deportation or detention, U.S.-backed research published on Wednesday said. Yale University researchers said that as part of a plan by Moscow to assert authority over Ukrainians, residents of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian state news agency RIA said overnight Russian strikes on the Ukrainian port of Izmail had hit port and grain infrastucture housing foreign mercenaries and military hardware, as well as a naval ship repair yard. RIA cited Sergei Lebedev, a man it described as a coordinator of an underground group in the …

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(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Russia’s attacks on port infrastructure showed Moscow was intent on creating a “global catastrophe,” with a crisis in food markets, prices and supplies. “For the Russian state, this is not just a battle against our freedom and against our country,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly …

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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece said on Wednesday it will offer a week-long free stay on Rhodes in 2024 to tourists whose vacation was cut short by wildfires that burned for days on the island in July, damaging homes and hotels and forcing thousands to evacuate. Tourism is the main driver of Greece’s economy which emerged …

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LISBON (Reuters) – Pope Francis arrived in Lisbon on Wednesday to start a five-day visit centred around the World Youth Day, a global gathering of young Catholics. The ITA Airways plane carrying the pontiff, his entourage and reporters landed at Lisbon’s Figo Maduro military air base. His first stop will be a welcoming ceremony hosted …

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(Reuters) – Anti-aircraft units worked to shoot down drones attacking the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early on Wednesday, with drone debris falling in three districts but causing no injuries, Mayor Vitali Klitschko and military officials said. Klitschko, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said that debris had fallen in the central Solomianskyi district and that a …

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By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) – A huge billboard raising awareness of sexual abuse by clergymen was put up overnight in Lisbon, just hours before Pope Francis was due to arrive in the Portuguese capital for the world’s largest gathering of young Catholics. The World Youth Day event was devised by the late Pope John …

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