(Reuters) -American ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy was granted access on Monday to jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, the U.S. State Department said, in the second such visit since his pre-trial detention in March on espionage charges he denies. Tracy met with Gershkovich at Lefortovo Prison in Moscow in what was the first …
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(Updates June 30 story with new headline) By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) -The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals despite months of record-breaking heat on land and sea. As envoys gathered in Bonn …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s right-wing parties have lost some ground to the ruling left-wing coalition led by the Socialists (PSOE) but remain in the lead ahead of a July 23 national election, according to polls published on Monday. The conservative People’s Party (PP) and the far-right party Vox, a potential coalition ally, would still win …
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president, has warned that Moscow’s confrontation with the West will last decades and that its conflict with Ukraine could become permanent. Medvedev, once seen in the West as a liberal moderniser, has emerged as one of Russia’s most outspoken hawks since Moscow launched what it …
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By Johan Ahlander KARLSKRONA, Sweden (Reuters) – When Sweden joins NATO, it will help the alliance redress its vulnerability in northwest Europe – the Baltic Sea, a shared waterway with Russia with a bottleneck for access to ports in eight states including Germany. Sweden’s key to keeping the waters navigable in a conflict is its …
By Anthony Deutsch and Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Law enforcement officials on Monday open an international centre for the prosecution of the crime of aggression, the first step toward building cases against individuals behind Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities are reviewing more than 93,000 reports of war crimes and …
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By Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent comments about payments to the Wagner group was “like direct evidence” that Wagner’s mercenaries were an illegal arm of the Russian army in the war, Ukraine’s top prosecutor told Reuters this week. Putin said last week that Wagner and its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – An android robot, EveR 6, took the conductor’s podium in Seoul on Friday evening to lead a performance by South Korea’s national orchestra, marking the first such attempt in the country. The two-armed robot, designed by the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, made its debut at the National Theater of Korea, leading …
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(Reuters) -The European Union is considering a proposal for the Russian Agricultural Bank to set up a subsidiary to reconnect to the global financial network as a sop to Moscow, the Financial Times said on Monday. With the bank under sanctions, the move aims to safeguard the Black Sea grain deal that allows Ukraine to …
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By Gabriella Borter and Shivani Tanna (Reuters) -A mass shooting early on Sunday at an outdoor neighborhood block party in Baltimore, Maryland, left two people dead and 28 others injured, about half of them children, as investigators sought the public’s help in tracking down multiple suspects, police said. Authorities offered no motive for the gun …
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