(Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday accused the West of “shamelessly burying” the Black Sea grain initiative that facilitates the export of Ukraine’s agricultural products from its southern ports, the RIA Novosti news agency reported. While remaining in the agreement, Russia has repeatedly railed against the West’s approach to the deal, struck last …
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By Eloisa Lopez and Henriette Chacar ISKENDERUN, Turkey (Reuters) – Sabriye Karan’s late husband worked for the Turkish national rail company for 32 years and her daughter Nehir grew up riding trains. After powerful earthquakes struck Turkey and damaged her home, she and Nehir moved into one. “We never imagined we would live here,” said …
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By Laura Alviz and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s centre-left government on Wednesday announced new feminist guidelines to shape its diplomacy and development work including the creation of a new role for an “ambassador for feminist foreign policy”. Germany will lobby to ensure women’s concerns are more in focus worldwide, that women are better represented …
By Pete Schroeder (Reuters) – After a rare snowfall dusted Los Angeles on Saturday, Southern California is bracing for a series of weak storms that will bring wind and rain this week to coastal areas while Northern and Central California mountain communities could see more heavy snow. Over the past three days, the storm brought …
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By Alexandros Avramidis and Lefteris Papadimas LARISSA, Greece (Reuters) -At least 38 people were killed when a Greek passenger train collided head-on with a freight train late on Tuesday, derailing carriages which then burst into flames in the country’s deadliest rail crash in living memory. Many of the victims were thought to be university students …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ukrainian forces are fiercely resisting a Russian attempt to seize the small city of Bakhmut and are throwing massive extra reserves into the bloody battle, Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force, said on Wednesday. Prigozhin’s men have spearheaded the assault in eastern Ukraine for months with Moscow regarding Bakhmut, which it …
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By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Democratic countries worldwide should make Russia pay war reparations to Ukraine and cut all financial and economic ties with Moscow, Polish Climate Minister Anna Moskwa said on Wednesday. “We need to get Ukraine compensated from Russian Federation as much as possible,” Moskwa said at an energy conference in Croatia’s …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s authorities are facing scrutiny over their response to a tragic shipwreck near their shores, in which at least 67 migrants, including 16 children, have died. Here is what is known about Sunday’s disaster, which took place before dawn near the coast of Steccato di Cutro, in the southern Calabria region. THE …
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By Angeliki Koutantou ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called it an unspeakable tragedy but questions are being asked whether the fatal collision of passenger and freight trains on Tuesday night could have been prevented. Nearly 24 hours after the two trains collided in central Greece, killing at least 36 people and injuring …
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OSLO (Reuters) – Norwegian police on Wednesday briefly detained environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg during a demonstration in Oslo, a Reuters eyewitness said. Indigenous campaigners and other activists demanding the removal of wind turbines from reindeer pastures in Norway in recent days blocked access to several government buildings. Thunberg and others blocking one of the doors …
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