MILAN (Reuters) – An Italian court on Monday dropped a case against the president of the northern region of Lombardy, Attilio Fontana, and 11 other people over their initial handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, a court document showed. On June 7, another court dropped the same case against former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and former …
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(Reuters) – The Kremlin on Monday accused Kyiv of carrying out a “deliberate attack on journalists” in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, in which a reporter for the Russian state news agency RIA was killed. Russia has launched a criminal probe into Rostislav Zhuravlev’s death. Separately, French news agency Agence France-Presse said one of its video …
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(Reuters) – The former head of a local branch of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s campaign organisation was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison for participating in an “extremist community”, Navalny’s team said on Monday.Vadim Ostanin, who had run Navalny’s local headquarters in the Siberian city of Barnaul, had carried out only “legal political …
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KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on the European Union on Monday to ensure that an “unacceptable and clearly non-European” ban on Ukrainian grain imports to five countries is lifted by a Sept. 15 deadline. The five central European countries want the EU ban extended at least until the end of the year. The ban …
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By Kate Abnett and Pietro Lombardi BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union could stand to lose two of its most effective climate change negotiators ahead of this year’s COP28 UN summit, with the possible departures of the EU’s own green policy chief and Spain’s climate minister. Frans Timmermans, the European Commissioner in charge of climate …
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By Johan Ahlander and Tom Little MALMO (Reuters) -Climate activist Greta Thunberg was forcibly removed by police from a protest in the southern Swedish city of Malmo on Monday just hours after a local court fined her for disobeying a police order during a similar protest last month. Thunberg, 20, who became the face of …
By Joan Faus and Belén Carreño BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s conservative People’s Party (PP) has started talks with other parties to seek their support to lead a new government while the ruling Socialist (PSOE) party said it wanted to avoid a repeat ballot after Sunday’s election produced a hung parliament. PP leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo hailed …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Russia destroyed Ukrainian grain warehouses on the Danube River and wounded six people in a drone attack on Monday, expanding the target area of an air campaign that it launched last week after pulling out of the Black Sea grain deal, Ukraine said. Russia has pounded food export facilities in Ukraine’s Odesa region …
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By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia accused Kyiv of “terrorism” saying that two Ukrainian drones had damaged buildings in Moscow, including one close to the Defence Ministry’s headquarters on Monday, a day after Ukraine promised payback for Russian strikes on Odesa. Nobody was reported hurt in the attack, but one of its targets – close …
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URA E FSHEJT, Kosovo (Reuters) – With arms outstretched like bird’s wings in the traditional “swallow style”, Evald Krnic plunged more than 20 metres from a bridge in southern Kosovo into the cold White Drin river. “You don’t just jump; you fly,” he told Reuters after winning first place in the bridge-diving competition, an annual …
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