By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – The French prime minister was accused of “censorship” at a court hearing on Wednesday reviewing her decision to sue the publisher of a new biography mentioning intimate details of her private life. Elisabeth Borne, the 62-year-old former technocrat President Emmanuel Macron named last year to lead his cabinet, was …
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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner mercenary group, warned that Russia could face a revolution similar to those of 1917 and lose the conflict in Ukraine unless the elite got serious about fighting the war. Russia’s most powerful mercenary said his political outlook was dominated by love for …
(Reuters) – The Russian-built Crimean Bridge linking the Crimean peninsula to the Russian region of Krasnodar was reopened on Wednesday after being closed for several hours for “exercises”, an official from Crimea’s Russian-backed administration said. It was not clear what was meant by exercises. A local radio station posted a video on YouTube, which Reuters …
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By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) – The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, sailed into Oslo on Wednesday, a first for such a U.S. ship, in a show of NATO force at a time of heightened tension between NATO and Russia over the war in Ukraine. The ship and its crew will …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Older people have suffered and died at a disproportionately high rate since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a U.N. report showed on Wednesday, with some perishing because they were barred from fetching medicines or leaving basements. The report compiled by U.N. human rights monitors showed that about a third of …
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OSLO (Reuters) – Russia has informed neighbouring Finland that it will terminate a bilateral agreement on mutual visits to military installations, the Finnish defence ministry said late on Tuesday. The bilateral agreement, signed in 2000, provided for one annual Russian assessment visit to Finland and a similar visit by Finland to the Leningrad Military District …
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(Reuters) -A Russian court on Tuesday extended for three months the pre-trial detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested in March on espionage charges, which he and his employer deny. The FSB security service arrested Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, on March 29 in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg accusing him of …
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(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik in Moscow on Tuesday and hailed an increase in trade during a meeting that has angered the European Union. In a transcript released by the Kremlin, Putin told Dodik that bilateral trade with Dodik’s Serb Republic region of Bosnia, while relatively …
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By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) – A growing number of health emergencies around the world, from COVID-19 to cholera, have left the World Health Organization’s response “overstretched”, a senior advisor said on Tuesday. Speaking at the U.N. agency’s annual meeting, Professor Walid Ammar, chair of a committee reviewing the WHO’s emergency response, said funding and …
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(Reuters) – Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko appeared in public on Tuesday and dismissed talk he was seriously ill, telling officials, “I’m not going to die, guys,” according to a video shown by a state-run media outlet said. Lukashenko, 68, is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies. Rumours about the state of his health …
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