(Reuters) – The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said in a video posted on Tuesday that his forces now control more than 80% of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Wagner fighters have led Russia’s months-long efforts to capture Bakhmut, in one of the bloodiest battles in its 13-month-old invasion of Ukraine. …
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(Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich had “violated Russian law” and been caught “red-handed,” one day after the U.S. State Department officially designated him as having been “wrongfully detained.” Russia’s federal security service arrested Gershkovich last month on espionage charges widely decried as bogus by the White House, …
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PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia (Reuters) – One of Russia’s most active volcanoes erupted on the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula on Tuesday, shooting a vast cloud of ash far into the sky that smothered villages in drifts of grey volcanic dust and triggered an aviation warning. The Shiveluch volcano erupted just after midnight reaching a crescendo about six …
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By Humeyra Pamuk and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Monday determined that Russia has “wrongfully detained” American Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, effectively saying that espionage charges are bogus and that the case is political. “Journalism is not a crime,” State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said in a statement. “We condemn …
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By Idrees Ali and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. national security agencies are reviewing how they share their most sensitive secrets inside the U.S. government, and dealing with the diplomatic fallout from the release of dozens of confidential documents, three U.S. officials said. Investigators are also working to determine what person or group might have …
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By Noele Illien and John Revill BERN (Reuters) – Since Switzerland’s authorities last month pulled out all the stops to rush through a rescue of Credit Suisse, a storm has been brewing in the normally tranquil country. Many Swiss parliamentarians have criticised the shotgun marriage, which saw Credit Suisse taken over by rival UBS for …
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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces pounded frontline cities in eastern Ukraine with air strikes and artillery attacks, while U.S. officials stepped up efforts to locate the source of a leak of classified U.S. documents, including those on Ukrainian counter-offensive plans. The Russians pressed on with their offensive in the eastern Donetsk region where …
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VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria plans to extend checks at its borders with Slovenia and Hungary by another six months from May 11, when the current six-month suspension of free travel over those boundaries expires, Interior Minister Gerhard Karner told ORF radio on Tuesday. “We will inform the European Commission in the coming days that we …
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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – A 23-year-old bank employee armed with a rifle shot dead five colleagues and wounded nine other people at his workplace in Louisville on Monday while livestreaming the attack on social media, police said. The gunman was fatally shot at the scene, Louisville police said. It was unclear whether he was …
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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Russian forces pressed attacks on frontline cities in eastern Ukraine on Monday, while Ukrainian officials played down a report that Kyiv is amending some plans for a counter-offensive due to a leak of classified U.S. documents. The Russians were pounding Ukrainian positions around besieged Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk …
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