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KYIV (Reuters) – Russia hit an energy facility in northern Ukraine during overnight drone strikes that injured at least three people across the country, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday. Ukraine’s power distribution company Ukrenergo said the energy facility that was hit was located in the northern Zhytomyr region but gave no further details apart from …

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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said on Thursday, a day after Donald Trump became U.S. president-elect, that the West should accept Russia was winning the Ukraine war and negotiate an end to it. Moscow’s forces have been advancing at their fastest pace since the early weeks of the 2-1/2-year-old …

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By Jason Lange, Bo Erickson and Brad Heath WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump reshaped the U.S. electorate once again this year, piling up support among Hispanic voters, young people, and Americans without college degrees — and winning more votes in nearly all of the country as he reclaimed the presidency. Following the Republican’s populist campaign, …

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ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday congratulated Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who backed Donald Trump in his victorious campaign to return to the U.S. presidency. The rightwing Italian prime minister and the world’s richest man have repeatedly praised each other in public in recent months, so much so that Musk replied …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Ali Sawafta and Hatem Khaled CAIRO/WEST BANK/GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinians, locked in war with Israel for more than a year, expressed fear at Donald Trump’s return to the White House, while the leaders of the militant group Hamas and the Palestinian Authority urged him to act for peace. In Khan Younis in …

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By Kate Abnett and Alison Withers BRUSSELS (Reuters) – This year is “virtually certain” to eclipse 2023 as the world’s warmest since records began, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday. The data was released ahead of next week’s U.N. COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, where countries will try to agree …

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