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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia has asked Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters to speak to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday at a meeting that Moscow requested to discuss the delivery of weapons to Ukraine. “Russian diplomacy used to be serious. What next? Mr. Bean?” said a U.N. Security Council diplomat, speaking on condition of …

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By Libby George (Reuters) – A special panel named by Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission launched an investigation Tuesday into recent Reuters reports on rights abuses by the country’s army. Those familiar with the commission’s past work say it faces stiff challenges. The state-funded NHRC does its best to press officials to act in the …

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By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) – The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday is likely to be one of the deadliest this decade, seismologists said, with a more than 100 km (62 miles) rupture between the Anatolian and Arabian plates. Here is what scientists said happened beneath the earth’s surface and …

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ATHENS (Reuters) -Three people drowned and more than a dozen were believed to be missing in the second migrant shipwreck off Greece this week, authorities said on Tuesday. The coast guard said 19 people were rescued in an operation that began in the early hours of Tuesday after an inflatable rubber boat was spotted on …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday it is imposing a temporary security zone in the waters off Surfside Beach, South Carolina in the area where the U.S. military on Saturday shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon. The 10 nautical mile area security zone blocks vessels from entering without permission …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Kyrylo Budanov, who is expected to become Ukraine’s next defence minister, is a young officer who enjoyed a meteoric rise to become military intelligence chief, decorated for his role in operations that mostly remain secret. David Arakhamia, head of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s Servant of the People parliamentary bloc, has said Budanov will …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been invited to take part in a summit of European Union leaders, the EU said on Monday, amid reports he could be in Brussels as soon as this week. Charles Michel, the president of the European Council of the EU’s national leaders, invited Zelenskiy “to participate in …

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By Giuseppe Fonte and James Pearson ROME/LONDON (Reuters) – Global ransomware activity that targeted thousands of computer servers in Italy and other countries was probably the handiwork of criminal hackers and not a state or state-like entity, the Italian government said on Monday. Italy’s National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) said on Sunday that hackers had targeted …

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