By Lidia Kelly (Reuters) -Ukraine remains in control of a key supply route into Bakhmut, a military spokesperson said on Saturday, as the head of Russia’s mercenary Wagner Group threatened to withdraw some of his troops from the eastern city if Moscow did not send more ammunition. Russian forces have been trying for 10 months …
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By Philip Pullella and Boldizsar Gyori BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Pope Francis on Sunday presided over a big outdoor Mass where he urged Hungarians not to close the door on migrants and those who are “foreign or unlike us,” in contrast to the anti-immigrant policies of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban. More than 50,000 people gathered in …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia on Saturday promised it would respond harshly to what it said was Poland’s illegal seizure of its embassy school in Warsaw, an act it called a flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations. Polish state-run news channel TVP Info had earlier reported that police had showed up outside the Russian …
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(Reuters) – Two civilians died as a result of Ukrainian shelling on a village in Russia’s Bryansk region on Saturday evening, a local governor said. “According to preliminary information, one residential building was completely destroyed, two more houses were partially destroyed,” Governor Alexander Bogomaz said on the Telegram messaging app. “Emergency services continue to work …
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PARIS (Reuters) – An investigation is underway to find the suspects who carried out an armed robbery at a flagship Bulgari store in central Paris on Saturday, said the Paris prosecutor’s office. The robbery took place earlier in the day at Bulgari’s store on Place Vendome – which had already been robbed in 2021. Bulgari …
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By Nick Starkov LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy carries a pistol and would have fought to the death with his inner circle had the Russians stormed his Kyiv headquarters at the start of the war, he said in an interview shown on Saturday. “I know how to shoot. Could you imagine (a …
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(Reuters) – Britain has evacuated 1,888 people on 21 flights from Sudan since it the evacuation operation started on Tuesday, Britain’s foreign ministry said, with a final flight to depart from Wadi Saeedna airfield on Saturday. On Friday, Britain said that it would cease evacuations of nationals and other eligible people from Sudan as demand …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – The United States is an unreliable friend, and Iraq should not allow any U.S. troops on its territory, Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told visiting Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid on Saturday. Iran, which has strong ties with Iraq, opposes the U.S. military presence on its borders in Iraq and the …
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(Reuters) -A Ukrainian drone strike set ablaze a Russian fuel storage facility in the Crimean port of Sevastopol early on Saturday, sending a vast column of black smoke into the sky in the latest attack on the Russia-occupied peninsula. The city’s Moscow-installed governor blamed Ukraine and later said the fire had been put out before …
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By Philip Pullella and Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Pope Francis met Ukrainian refugees on the second day of his visit to Hungary on Saturday, telling them a different future was possible as they described the hardships they have faced since the war began. Francis met about 600 refugees, poor and homeless people in a visit …
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