By Mark Trevelyan and Felix Light (Reuters) – Well-known Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed by a bomb blast in a St Petersburg cafe on Sunday in what appeared to be the second assassination on Russian soil of a figure closely associated with the war in Ukraine. Russia’s state Investigative Committee said it had …
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By Stoyan Nenov SOFIA (Reuters) – A pro-Western reformist bloc and the centre-right grouping of ex-prime minister Boyko Borissov were running almost neck-and-neck after Bulgaria’s parliamentary election on Sunday, exit polls showed, pointing to lengthy and difficult coalition talks. The reformist bloc, comprising We Continue the Change (PP) and Democratic Bulgaria (DB), won around 25.6% …
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By Anne Kauranen and Essi Lehto HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s opposition right-wing National Coalition Party (NCP) was on track to narrowly win Sunday’s parliamentary election in a tight three-way race, public broadcaster Yle projected, with 71% of votes counted. The NCP was seen winning 48 of the 200 seats in parliament, ahead of the nationalist …
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(Reuters) – The Biden administration said the surprise oil output cuts announced on Sunday by Saudi Arabia and other OPEC+ countries were not advisable. “We don’t think cuts are advisable at this moment given market uncertainty – and we’ve made that clear,” a spokesperson for the National Security Council said. The cuts of an additional …
By Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When Joe Biden was asked on Friday morning about the impact that the indictment of his White House predecessor and political rival Donald Trump would have on America, the U.S. president had an emphatic response: no comment. “I’m not going to talk about Trump’s indictment,” Biden …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – More than 200 workers were evacuated from a coal mine in southern Russia on Sunday after it filled with smoke, RIA news agency quoted an emergency official as saying. The incident happened at a depth of nearly 200 metres (650 feet) at the Obukhovskaya mine in the city of Zverevo, Interfax said. …
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(Reuters) – U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, who was freed from a Russian penal colony in a prisoner exchange last year, has urged the Biden administration to keep using “every tool possible” to win the release of a U.S. reporter accused of spying in Russia. Griner and her wife Cherelle said on Instagram that “our …
ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis attended a Palm Sunday service in St Peter’s Square, a day after he was discharged from hospital following successful treatment for a severe bout of bronchitis. He was driven into the huge esplanade, sitting in the back of an open-topped vehicle as it passed through the crowds, before descending and …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russia, whose leader is accused of war crimes, assumed charge of the United Nations Security Council on Saturday causing fury in Ukraine, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy calling it an absurd and destructive move. The last time Russia held the rotating presidency of the body responsible for maintaining peace and combating acts of …
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By Maytaal Angel JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul showed no sign of abating on Saturday, despite its suspension by the embattled premier this week, as tens of thousands took to the streets to demand it be scrapped entirely. Beset by the domestic upheaval and expressions of concern and …
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