FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s defence minister Christine Lambrecht plans to resign, daily Bild reported on Friday, potentially adding to chancellor Olaf Scholz’s problems as he cautiously seeks to step up military support for Ukraine. Lambrecht, a member of Scholz’s social democratic party SPD, has decided to step down to allow someone else to make a …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Climate activist Greta Thunberg condemned the forced removal of protesters from an abandoned village in western Germany as outrageous during a visit to the site, where demonstrators have dug in to try to stop the expansion of a coal mine. “Germany is really embarrassing itself right now,” said Thunberg, who said the …
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By Alvise Armellini and Federico Maccioni ROME (Reuters) – A U.S.-born princess who lives in a Roman villa featuring the world’s only known mural by Italian baroque artist Caravaggio said on Friday she faced eviction from the unique property at the centre of a raging inheritance battle. A court in Rome served an eviction notice …
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By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE (Reuters) -A retired general who held a senior NATO military job headed into the Czech Republic’s presidential election starting on Friday as a favourite ahead of his main rivals – a divisive former prime minister and an economics professor. Presidents in the NATO and European Union member country do not hold …
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By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – In the twilight of the Soviet Union, Yevgeny Prigozhin was languishing in prison for theft. Now as the founder of Russia’s most powerful mercenary group, he is vying for Vladimir Putin’s favour by claiming a rare battlefield win in Ukraine. His aim is to leverage the success that Wagner …
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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Russia said on Friday that its forces had taken control of Soledar in eastern Ukraine, in what would be a rare success for Moscow after months of battlefield reverses, but Kyiv said its troops were still fighting in the town. Reuters could not immediately verify the situation in Soledar, …
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By Pavel Polityuk and Vladyslav Smilianets KYIV/NEAR SOLEDAR, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Friday its forces were still holding out in the eastern salt mining town of Soledar after a “hot” night of fighting in what has become one of the bloodiest battlefields of the entire war. Both sides have endured heavy losses in the …
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By Max Hunder VOLYN REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) -Burst river banks, thick mud and waterlogged fields could be seen for miles around northwest Ukraine’s border with Belarus on Thursday, making the prospect of a Russian assault from across the border unlikely for now despite recent warnings from Kyiv. Ukrainian officials have warned of a new looming …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) -A man injured three police officers in Budapest late on Thursday with a knife, one of whom died in a hospital, police said in a statement on Friday. The suspect was trying to enter a flat in a Budapest apartment block when the police were called, police said. As the three officers tried …
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By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Singer Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Elvis Presley, died on Thursday at the age of 54 after being rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital, her mother said. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that …
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