By Miranda Murray BERLIN (Reuters) – “Manodrome” depicts a literal cult of masculinity, where women are at best a nuisance and celibacy is a virtue, tapping into a vein of misogyny exemplified by influencers like internet star Andrew Tate, now detained in Romania. The film, which premieres at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday, explores …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Two explosions were heard in a west Ukrainian city as the country faced a new Russian missile salvo, local government officials said, with several regions limiting electricity supply as a precaution for potential strikes on the grid. Two explosions could be heard in the city of Khmelnytskyi, which lies 170 miles (274 …
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(Reuters) -Protests rocked Iran again overnight Thursday after seeming to have dwindled in recent weeks, with marchers calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic, online video posts purportedly showed on Friday. The marches in numerous cities including Tehran that began on Thursday evening and went on into the night marked 40 days since the …
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(Reuters) – Anton Krasovsky, a pro-war Russian TV presenter who called for Ukrainian children to be drowned, has been given a five-year jail term in absentia by a court in Ukraine, officials said on Friday. Ukraine’s SBU security service said Krasovsky had been found guilty of two charges of calling for genocide and two charges …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE are gearing up for a 2024 trial with Moderna Inc at London’s High Court in competing patent lawsuits over their rival COVID-19 vaccines. The case reached London’s High Court for the first time for a preliminary hearing on Thursday, ahead of a trial which …
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(Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday it was “obvious” Ukraine would not be the last stop of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion, and that it was vital the West did not delay arms deliveries to help repel Russian forces. The Ukrainian leader told the Munich Security Conference by video link that while the West was …
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ROME (Reuters) – The European People’s Party (EPP) said on Friday it was cancelling a planned event in Naples due to criticism of Ukraine by former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, whose Forza Italia party is an EPP member. “Following the remarks by Silvio Berlusconi on Ukraine we decided to cancel our study days in …
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SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgarian police have arrested four people after they found the bodies of 18 dead migrants from Afghanistan, including that of a child, in an abandoned truck near the capital Sofia, officials said on Friday. The truck was transporting timber and carrying illegal migrants hidden in compartments, the interior ministry said in a …
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BORODIANKA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Eleven-year-old Veronika Krasevych crouched down in the rubble near the ruins of her home in northern Ukraine, holding out a sachet of food to two ragged cats at her feet. Almost a year earlier, Russian shells had rained down on her family’s ninth-floor apartment in the town of Borodianka, as they …
By Andrew Gray, John Irish and Sabine Siebold MUNICH (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday urged allies to speed up sending weapons to defeat the Russian invasion, telling global leaders assembled in Munich that dithering and delays also threatened their security. His message at the start of a conference heavily focused on Europe’s transformed …
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