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(Reuters) – A state of emergency has been imposed in Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine’s Kherson region following the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam and the flooding of large area, Russia’s TASS state news agency reported on Wednesday. The agency, citing emergency services, said about 2,700 houses were flooded after the destruction of the dam …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States said on Tuesday it was “not certain” who was to blame for a burst dam in Ukraine, but it would not make sense for Ukraine to have done this to its own people and territory, as Kyiv and Moscow blamed each other for the disaster. …

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By Frank Pingue (Reuters) – The world of golf was left stunned on Tuesday as the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and rival Saudi-backed LIV circuit, who have been involved in a bitter fight that has split the sport, announced a shock agreement to merge and form one unified commercial entity. Additionally, the organizations said …

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(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described the bursting of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine on Tuesday as “an environmental bomb of mass destruction” and said only liberating the entire country could guarantee against new “terrorist” acts. “Such deliberate destruction by the Russian occupiers and other structures of the hydroelectric power station is an environmental …

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COLLEVILLE-MONTGOMERY, France (Reuters) – Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of the French commandos who stormed the Normandy beaches defended by Hitler’s troops in 1944, on Tuesday joined President Emmanuel Macron at a seafront ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Gautier, 100, presented a student marine commando with his green beret at …

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By Matthias Williams, Mark Trevelyan and Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) – The breach of a huge dam on the front-line Dnipro river has muddied the picture for a much-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian invaders and threatens an environmental disaster for civilians living in the war zone. Kyiv and Moscow have blamed each other for the …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations does not have any independent information on how a Ukrainian dam burst, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday, describing it as “another devastating consequence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.” The U.N. Security Council will meet later on Tuesday to discuss the dam at the …

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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has enough water to cool its reactors for “several months” from a pond located above the reservoir of a nearby dam that has broken, the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Tuesday, calling for the pond to be spared. The major Soviet-era dam near the Russian-held …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine called on Tuesday for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss what it called a “Russian terrorist attack” on the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine. It also said it wanted the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board of governors to discuss the incident and demanded new international sanctions on …

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