By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Negotiations will start in a week on extending a U.N.-backed initiative that has enabled Ukraine to export grain from ports blockaded by Russia after its invasion, a senior Ukrainian official said on Friday. The Black Sea Grain Initiative brokered by the United Nations and Turkey last July allowed grain …
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By Sybille de La Hamaide CASTELNAU-TURSAN, France (Reuters) – French duck farmer Herve Dupouy has culled his flock four times since 2015 to stop the spread of bird flu but as a wave of deadly outbreaks nears his farm once again, he says it’s time to accept a solution once considered taboo: vaccination. “The goal …
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(Reuters) – Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday he would only order his troops to fight alongside ally Russia if another country launches an attack against Belarus, the state-run Belta news agency reported. Lukashenko, who has repeatedly denied claims from Kyiv and the West that his country could be dragged further into the war …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – A 24-hour strike at seven German airports on Friday was set to affect almost 300,000 passengers as unionised workers press their demand for high wages. “The terminals are empty this morning,” said a spokesperson for the airport in Hamburg, adding that very few of the 32,000 passengers affected had turned up. Around …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government forces and rebels have clashed overnight in northwest Syria for the first time since an earthquake devastated the region on Feb. 6, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday. The northwest, one of the region’s most badly affected by the earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey, is controlled …
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(Reuters) – Russian Grad rockets and barrel artillery slammed into a residential district in the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Thursday, killing three men and two women and wounding nine more, Ukraine’s prosecutor general said, adding it was being investigated as a war crime. “Five dead and nine wounded due to shelling of Bakhmut by …
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By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – A top U.S. trade official said on Thursday that export controls placed on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine have slowly reduced the supply of materials that Moscow can use to rebuild its war machine. The U.S. and a coalition of 37 other countries imposed unprecedented export controls on Russia …
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By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged filmmakers to take sides in what he termed a battle between freedom and tyranny, drawing a parallel in his speech opening the Berlin Film Festival between Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Berlin Wall. Zelenskiy recalled his own experience as an actor, urging colleagues to …
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By Max Hunder and Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Russia rained missiles across Ukraine on Thursday and struck its largest oil refinery, Kyiv said, while the head of the Wagner mercenary group predicted the long-besieged city of Bakhmut would take weeks if not months to fall. Following a pattern of heavy bombardments after Ukrainian battlefield …
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By Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) -Italy on Thursday approved a decree tightening the grip of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s office on the country’s post-COVID recovery plan, as Rome seeks to get full value from some 200 billion euros ($214 billion) in EU funding. Rome has so far secured almost 86 billion euros of the European …
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