By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Friday it will continue to keep Afghan staff working from home after the Taliban administration began enforcing a ban on Afghan women working for the world body a month ago. The United Nations has some 3,300 Afghan staff, of whom about 400 are …
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By Mark Trevelyan, Andrew Osborn and Jonathan Landay LONDON (Reuters) – An extraordinary announcement by Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin that his fighters will abandon the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut looks like an exercise in blame avoidance and disinformation, Russia specialists and military analysts say. But it takes his conflict with defence chiefs to a …
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By Antonio Bronic and Aleksandar Vasovic DUBONA, Serbia (Reuters) -A young man wearing a T-shirt with neo-Nazi symbols killed eight people and wounded 14 in Serbia’s second mass shooting in consecutive days, and he was caught later hiding at his grandfather’s house, authorities said on Friday. The latest rampage took place in the village of …
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By Ece Toksabay and Huseyin Hayatsever ANKARA (Reuters) – Whoever wins Turkey’s elections this month, the NATO-member is expected to maintain cordial relations with Russia that have already endured several years of dramatic change in Ankara’s foreign policy. What prompted that change was Turkey’s severe economic crisis, which forced President Tayyip Erdogan to mend strained …
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By Felix Light and Caleb Davis (Reuters) -Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Russia’s Wagner Group mercenary force, said in a sudden and dramatic announcement on Friday that his forces would leave the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut that they have been trying to capture since last summer. Prigozhin said they would pull back on May 10 – …
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By Felix Light (Reuters) – Former Russian deputy defence minister Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev has joined the Wagner Group private militia as a deputy commander, Russian pro-war social media channels reported on Thursday. In two videos posted by war correspondent Alexander Simonov on Telegram, Mizintsev – clad in Wagner-branded combat gear – was shown visiting …
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By Rod Nickel and Pavel Polityuk WINNIPEG, Manitoba/KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s 12-year deal to buy enough uranium from Canadian miner Cameco Corp to power all of its nuclear reactors gives each side the right to change sales volumes with two years’ notice, the Ukrainian state-owned utility Energoatom told Reuters. The unusual flexibility of the deal …
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(Reuters) – After two mass shootings in Serbia this week, here is a timeline of some of the worst shooting incidents in Europe in recent decades: May 1987 – BELGIUM – Michael Van Wijnendaele, who had injured his own parents-in-law and ran amok in the farming community of Bogaarden, south of Brussels, shoots himself as …
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(Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Wednesday’s drone incident at the Kremlin was a “hostile act” and Russia would respond with “concrete actions”. Russia has accused Ukraine of firing drones at the Kremlin in an attempt to kill President Vladimir Putin, and said the United States was behind the purported …
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By Sergio Goncalves and Andrei Khalip LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa issued a dire new warning on Thursday to the prime minister after their rift put the country on the verge of a full-blown political crisis, but refrained from using his power to dissolve parliament. “All things considered, I will continue to …
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