By Steve Holland and Tim Reid (Reuters) -Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who is running for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election, made a surprise visit to Ukraine on Thursday to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. “Freedom is winning in Ukraine, and now more than ever, we need to keep faith with the …
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By Simon Lewis and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said hard work remains to reach a final agreement to end the conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, as talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan’s foreign ministers hosted by Washington ended on Thursday. Blinken, who posed for a photograph with Armenian Foreign …
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(Reuters) – Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg visited Kyiv on Thursday to draw attention to environmental damage caused by war in Ukraine and criticized the world’s response to the June 6 collapse of the vast hydro-electric Kakhovka dam. Ukraine is investigating the dam blast, which unleashed floods across southern Ukraine and Russian-occupied areas of the …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Youths clashed with riot police on the sidelines of a march held on Thursday in tribute to a 17-year-old shot dead by police earlier this week in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, according to Reuters correspondents at the scene. Riot police fired tear gas at youths who had gathered for the march, …
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By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, effectively prohibiting affirmative action policies long used to raise the number of Black, Hispanic and other underrepresented minority students on American campuses. In a blockbuster decision that …
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By Ahmed Saad BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Dozens of Iraqis protested on Thursday in front of the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad after a man burned a Koran outside a mosque in Stockholm. Some of the protesters set fire to a rainbow-coloured flag representing the LGBT community and many held the Koran and portraits of populist Iraqi Shi’ite …
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By Richa Naidu and Savyata Mishra LONDON (Reuters) – Consumers, food companies, retailers and restaurants need to decide whether to fight back or find alternatives to one of the world’s most common artificial sweeteners, as a leading global health body prepares to declare it a possible carcinogen. On Thursday, Reuters reported that aspartame, used in …
By Marine Strauss and Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian foreign affairs minister Hadja Lahbib on Thursday survived a vote of no-confidence in Parliament after granting visas to delegations from Iranian and Russian cities to attend a mayors’ convention in Brussels earlier this month. When in Brussels, the Iranian delegation filmed Belgian-Iranian lawmaker Darya …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez plans to visit Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kiev on Saturday as Spain takes over the European Union’s six-month rotating presidency. Sanchez wants the trip to be the Spanish presidency’s first act “to show with his presence the EU’s undivided support to Ukraine in all fields: military, …
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By Benoit Van Overstraeten PARIS (Reuters) -President Emmanuel Macron convened a crisis meeting with senior ministers on Thursday after riots spread across France overnight over the deadly police shooting of a teenager of North African descent during a traffic stop. Police made 150 arrests nationwide during a second night of unrest, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin …
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