By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) – As missiles streaked across Kyiv’s skies one mid-February morning, a group of high school pupils sat against a metro station’s walls, scribbling away in notebooks and focused on their teacher Olena’s instructions. To avoid the lesson being disrupted by yet another Russian attack, she had quickly moved her class …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union will impose sanctions against dozens of Iranians, including judges, for their role in imposing death penalties on protesters, Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said on Monday. “Judges, prison workers, people who sentence others to death, dozens of them will get on the list,” Asselborn said before a meeting with …
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By Yiming Woo and Andrew Gray NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine/MUNICH (Reuters) – Ukrainian soldiers fighting to hold off a Russian push on the small eastern city of Bakhmut pleaded for more weapons from the outside world as senior Western leaders met in Munich on Friday to assess the year-long war shaking Europe. “Give us more military …
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(Reuters) -Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has decided to receive hospice care and “spend his remaining time at home with his family” instead of additional medical intervention, the Carter Center said on Saturday. Carter, 98, who has lived longer after leaving the White House than any former president in U.S. history, was a Democrat who …
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(Reuters) -Ukraine’s military is inflicting “extraordinarily significant” losses on Russian forces near the town of Vuhledar in the eastern Donbas region, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday. “The situation is very complicated. And we are fighting. We are breaking down the invaders and inflicting extraordinarily significant losses on Russia,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video …
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By Humeyra Pamuk INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday announced further aid to Turkey and said Washington would provide longer term help to Ankara as it seeks to rebuild following this month’s earthquake. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey’s southeast and neighbouring Syria on Feb. 6, killing …
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PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy discussed strategies on Sunday, including what the Ukrainian leader described as joint decisions ahead of this week’s anniversary of Russia’s invasion of his country. The two leaders spoke by telephone as Western leaders pledged at a conference in Munich to strengthen their support for …
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By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) – Setting out to tell the story of Sarajevo’s four-year siege in the 1990s, Nenad Sicin-Sain thought he was documenting Europe’s last big war – only for Russia to invade Ukraine during filming, heightening the emotions of an already fraught project. “Kiss the Future”, which premiered at the Berlin Film …
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By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -France and Burkina Faso have officially marked the end of French military operations in the West African nation, the Burkinabe armed forces said on Sunday, after a flag-lowering ceremony at the French special forces’ camp a day earlier. In January, Burkina Faso gave France one month to withdraw its troops …
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By Clodagh Kilcoyne, Henriette Chacar and Marco Trujillo ANTAKYA/KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey (Reuters) – Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said a convoy of 14 of its trucks had entered northwestern Syria on Sunday to assist in earthquake rescue operations, as concerns grow over lack of access to the war-ravaged area. The World Food Programme (WFP) has …
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