SANAA (Reuters) -At least 78 people were killed in a stampede in the Yemeni capital Sanaa as residents gathered at a school to receive cash donations distributed by merchants during Ramadan, witnesses and the Houthi administration said on Thursday. Hundreds of people crowded to receive the alms, which amounted to 5,000 Yemeni riyals, or about …
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By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian military has launched a video campaign to lure more professional soldiers to fight in Ukraine which challenges those interested to show they are “a real man” and swap what it casts as hum-drum civilian life for the battlefield. The ad, set to stirring music, follows a report …
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By Doug Barrett and Brendan O’Brien LIBERTY, Missouri (Reuters) – An 84-year-old white man charged in the shooting and wounding of a Black teenager who mistakenly walked up to the man’s house in Kansas City pleaded not guilty to felony charges on Wednesday during his first court appearance in the case. Andrew Lester would face …
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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday extended by two days a temporary block on limits set by lower courts on access to the abortion pill mifepristone in a challenge by anti-abortion groups to the drug’s federal regulatory approval. The decision to keep the matter on hold gives the …
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By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union is preparing 100 million euros ($109.32 million) in compensation for farmers in five countries bordering Ukraine and plans to introduce restrictions on imports of Ukrainian grains. Pressure has mounted on Brussels to work out a European Union-wide solution after Poland and Hungary banned some imports from Ukraine …
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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Wednesday accused Ukraine of sabotaging the Black Sea grain deal by demanding bribes from ship owners to register new vessels and carry out inspections under the cover of a deal the United Nations hopes could ease a global food crisis. There was no immediate comment on the …
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MADRID (Reuters) – The Spanish government will finance the building and revamping of 43,000 more homes for affordable rent, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday. The planned new houses are in addition to a previously announced plan to convert 50,000 foreclosed homes under management by Spain’s bad bank Sareb. Sanchez said the government would …
KYIV (Reuters) – Inspections of ships are resuming under a U.N.-brokered agreement on the safe export of grain from Ukrainian Black Sea ports, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said on Wednesday. He wrote on Facebook that “ship inspections are being resumed, despite the RF’s (Russian Federation’s) attempts to disrupt the agreement.” The Russian news …
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(Reuters) – Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) have received an order from the German army to upgrade 143 Puma infantry fighting vehicles, the companies said on Wednesday The order for their joint venture PSM is valued at around 770 million euros ($843.92 million), they said in a joint statement. According to the companies, they will …
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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -British trade minister Nigel Huddleston signed a trade deal with the U.S. state of Oklahoma in Washington on Tuesday, while hailing another accord aimed at easing rules for UK architects working in the United States, the British embassy said. The trade and economic memorandum of understanding with Oklahoma, signed by …
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