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Five killed as Russian missile hits apartment block in Ukraine’s Dnipro

14 Jan 2023 14 Jan 2023

By Olena Harmash and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Russia unleashed a major missile attack on Ukraine on Saturday, smashing a nine-storey apartment block in the city of Dnipro, killing at least five people and striking vital energy facilities, officials said. Ukraine’s energy minister said the coming days would be “difficult” as months of Russian bombardment …

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Thousands of teachers take to Lisbon streets to demand higher wages

14 Jan 2023 14 Jan 2023

By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira LISBON (Reuters) – In a fresh blow to Portugal’s government, tens of thousands of Portuguese teachers and school staff poured into the streets of the capital Lisbon to demand higher wages and better working conditions in one of the biggest protests of recent years. During the peaceful demonstration, organised …

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Thunberg joins march on German village in protest against coal mine expansion

14 Jan 2023 14 Jan 2023

LUTZERATH (Reuters) – Around 6,000 protesters – including climate activist Greta Thunberg – marched through mud and rain to the German village of Luetzerath on Saturday, according to a police estimate, demonstrating against the expansion of an opencast lignite mine. The clearing of the village in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia was agreed between …

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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy: Russian missile attacks disrupt power in Kyiv, Kharkiv regions

14 Jan 2023 14 Jan 2023

(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Russian missile attacks on Saturday struck energy targets, causing new disruptions in energy supplies, particularly in Kyiv and Kharkiv regions. “Unfortunately, there were hits on energy infrastructure,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. “In this connection, the most difficult situation is in Kharkiv region and …

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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy appeals for more Western weapons after Russia attack

14 Jan 2023 14 Jan 2023

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Russian attacks on civilian targets could be stopped only if Ukraine’s Western partners supplied necessary weapons. “What is needed for this? Those weapons which are in the depots of our partners and which our soldiers are waiting for so much,” Zelenskiy said in his …

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Pell’s secret memo casts shadow at cardinal’s funeral

14 Jan 2023 14 Jan 2023

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis gave a funeral blessing to Cardinal George Pell on Saturday as revelations that he wrote an anonymous memo branding the current papacy a “catastrophe” hung in the air along with the incense. About 300 people attended Pell’s funeral Mass in a secondary chapel of St. Peter’s …

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Israeli troops kill two Palestinian gunmen in West Bank

14 Jan 2023 14 Jan 2023

JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli troops killed two Palestinian gunmen in the occupied West Bank on Saturday in what witnesses described as a running skirmish touched off by an army raid near a flashpoint town. Jenin and outlying areas have seen intensified military sweeps following a spate of street attacks in Israeli cities last year. …

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As U.S. probes FTX collapse, employees turn to law firm Covington

14 Jan 2023 14 Jan 2023

By Luc Cohen and Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) – Several FTX employees have turned to law firm Covington & Burling to help them deal with questions from U.S. authorities investigating the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange and actions by its founder Sam Bankman-Fried, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Arlo Devlin-Brown, a …

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Cuba says vulture fund seeking 72 million euros never a creditor as UK court begins proceedings

13 Jan 2023 13 Jan 2023

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba’s Central Bank on Friday lashed out against a “vulture fund” seeking to cash in on unpaid government debt lingering from the era of former leader Fidel Castro, calling illegitimate its claims against the Communist-run island in a London court. CRF I Ltd, an investor in defaulted Cuban sovereign debt since 2009, …

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Lithuania-Latvia gas pipeline blows up, but no sign of attack

13 Jan 2023 13 Jan 2023

By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) -A gas pipeline connecting Lithuania and Latvia was hit by an explosion on Friday but there was no immediate evidence of an attack, Lithuania gas transmission operator Amber Grid said. Video published by Lithuania’s public broadcaster LRT showed a fire raging at the blast site in the Panevezys county in …

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