By Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Tuesday said it could not say conclusively what caused the destruction of a massive dam in Ukraine, but was assessing reports that the blast was caused by Russia, which has been occupying the dam since last year. Spokesman John Kirby said it …
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VIENNA (Reuters) – A large cooling pond for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant that is above the reservoir of a nearby dam in Ukraine that burst on Tuesday is full and has enough water for several months, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said earlier on Tuesday …
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DAKAR (Reuters) -Senegal has temporarily closed its consulates abroad following attacks on diplomatic missions in Bordeaux, Milan, Paris and New York among others, the foreign affairs ministry said on Tuesday. The closures were announced in the wake of deadly unrest that broke out after a leading opposition figure, Ousmane Sonko, was handed a two-year jail …
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By Stephanie van den Berg and Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Ukraine on Tuesday called Russia a terrorist state at the top U.N. court, as hearings began in a case over Moscow’s backing of pro-Russian separatists blamed for down Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014. It was the first time lawyers for Ukraine and Russia …
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By Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) – United Nations climate talks in Germany kicked off on Monday without an agreed final agenda for technical discussions, a senior negotiator said, clouding optimism that the 10-day meeting would result in a clear programme for the COP28 conference in Dubai. The Bonn Climate Change Conference, designed to prepare decisions …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Air traffic controllers lost contact shortly after takeoff with the pilot of a light plane that caused a security scare on Sunday when it flew over heavily restricted airspace near Washington, authorities said on Monday. Four people including the pilot of the Cessna Citation 560 were killed in the crash, …
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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Moscow said on Monday it had thwarted a major offensive against its forces in eastern Ukraine, although it was unclear whether the attack formed the beginning of Ukraine’s long-anticipated counteroffensive. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was enigmatic in his nightly video, hailing “the news we have been waiting for” in …
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By Noemie Olive MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, France (Reuters) – A new dam and infrastructure works have saved the famous Mont-Saint-Michel abbey’s status as an island by reversing the silting up of its bay, French President Emmanuel Macron said in a speech on Monday. An old dam across the Couesnon River in front of the mount protected agriculture …
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(Reuters) – Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday that Ukrainian forces had retaken part of the settlement of Berkhivka, north of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, calling it a “disgrace”. Prigozhin’s private Wagner army captured Bakhmut last month after the longest battle of the war and handed its positions there to regular Russian troops. …
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By Philip Pullella and Alvise Armellini VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, tasked by Pope Francis to carry out a peace mission to try to help end the war in Ukraine, headed to Kyiv on Monday for a two-day trip to sound out government authorities. The Vatican announced his visit, which many observers see …
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