MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have agreed that the Russian leader will visit Turkey “soon”, Interfax cited a Kremlin aide as saying on Friday. The visit would be Putin’s first to a NATO country since he ordered tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. …
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By Philip Pullella and Cristiano Corvino ROME (Reuters) -Pope Francis was discharged from hospital on Friday morning, nine days after surgery to repair an abdominal hernia, and his doctor said he was stronger than before. The 86-year-old pontiff left Rome’s Gemelli hospital in a wheelchair, smiling and waving to reporters and well-wishers at the main …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Netherlands’ House of Orange profited by around 3 million guilders, or $600 million in modern terms, from Dutch colonies in the 1675-1770 period, a study commissioned by the government has found. The “State and Slavery” study, which examines the role of the Dutch government and related institutions in colonial slavery, and …
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KYIV (Reuters) – A married couple were killed by Russian shelling of the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson overnight, the regional governor said on Friday. Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said Russian forces had shelled the Novoberyslav settlement on the right bank of the Dnipro River from a Russian-occupied position on the opposite side of the river. …
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By Simon Johnson, John O’Donnell and Marie Mannes STOCKHOLM/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Sweden’s government is ready to step in to stem the fallout from a property rout if tumbling prices cause a wider crisis – a potential harbinger of trouble across Europe. High debts, rising interest rates and a wilting economy has produced a toxic cocktail …
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By Lefteris Papadimas and Karolina Tagaris KALAMATA, Greece (Reuters) -As Greece confronts its worst sea disaster in years, questions are mounting about how potentially hundreds of migrants drowned even as their vessel was being shadowed by the Greek coastguard. At least 78 people died when the fishing vessel flipped and capsized in international waters south-west …
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(Reuters) – A spokesman for the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog said on Thursday that gunfire briefly halted a convoy heading back to Ukrainian-held territory after a visit to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, but the delegation was in no immediate danger. “Convoy was stopped and gunfire was distinctly heard for a few minutes but the …
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By Max Hunder and Olena Harmash HRUSHIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Tetyana Tarasevych remembers how life got better in Ukraine’s southeast nearly 70 years ago after the vast Kakhovka water reservoir was built near her home in the village of Hrushivka. As the vast reservoir has lost around three-quarters of its volume since the destruction of …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Police found more than one body in an apartment in Poland’s north-western city of Szczecin following a shootout late on Thursday, the city police’s press officer said. Police were called to the scene by witnesses who heard shots coming from a balcony of a residential building in late afternoon. The anti-terrorist force …
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By Timothy Gardner and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Kremlin’s changes to the way it taxes oil sales were forced by Western sanctions on Russia over its war on Ukraine and will hit its oil production capacity over time, U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said on Thursday. Russian President Vladimir Putin in February signed …
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