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By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong’s pro-democracy online Citizens’ Radio station aired its final show on Friday and will cease operations owing to what its founder described as a “dangerous” political situation and the freezing of its bank account. Launched in 2005 by veteran activist Tsang Kin-shing, the Cantonese-language broadcaster gained a steady …

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By Maher Nazih and Amina Ismail BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Thousands of supporters of Shi’ite populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr held a protest in front of the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad on Friday to demand an end to diplomatic ties after a man set fire to a Koran outside a mosque in Stockholm. Protesters carried portraits of Sadr …

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By Jonathan Stempel and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government has urged an appeals court to uphold Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction and 20-year prison sentence for helping the disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. In a Thursday night filing with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, federal …

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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland has detained a Russian ice-hockey player on spying charges, prosecutors said on Friday, describing him as the 14th person that had been arrested from one espionage network. The player for a first division Polish team was taken into custody in the southern Polish region of Silesia, prosecutors said in a statement. …

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PARIS (Reuters) – The facade of the Paris aquatic centre where Olympic swimming events will be held in 2024 was damaged during rioting that convulsed France overnight, the company in charge of the Games’ infrastructures said on Friday. “Buses parked near the Aubervilliers aquatic centre construction site were set on fire,” SOLIDEO told Reuters. “The …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian troops are advancing in all directions of their counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces, a senior defence official said on Friday. Since the start of the counteroffensive this month, Ukraine says it has reasserted control over clusters of villages in the southeast although Russia still holds swathes of territory in the east, …

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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, asked about Russia’s stability in the aftermath of a failed mercenary mutiny, said on Friday that his country has always emerged stronger and more resilient from any difficulties. Lavrov, who was speaking at a news conference, said the reaction of many Western officials to Saturday’s …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on Friday for a widening of the U.N. Security Council to give more representation to Asian, African and Latin American countries in order to break what he called Western domination of the world. “A majority of the world does not want to live according to Western rules,” …

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By Karolina Tagaris, Lefteris Papadimas MALAKASA/KALAMATA, Greece (Reuters) -Survivors of a boat disaster that likely killed hundreds of migrants near Greece have given accounts of traffickers in North Africa cramming them into a clapped-out fishing trawler. They recounted hellish conditions above and below deck, with no food or water. Some also said the tragic end, …

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(Corrects spelling of name of Russia’s U.N. ambassador to Nebenzia, not Nevenzia, in paragraph 3) By Serhiy Chaliy ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine conducted nuclear disaster response drills on Thursday in the vicinity of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, regional officials said. Kyiv accused Russia this month of planning a “terrorist” attack at the …

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