(Reuters) – Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova said on Thursday that both Moscow and Kyiv are interested in future contacts between their rights commissioners, the TASS news agency reported. Following a meeting this week in Turkey with her Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Lubinets, Moskalkova said she believed Ukraine had adopted a pragmatic approach to ongoing …
By Olena Harmash and Clodagh Kilcoyne KYIV/NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine (Reuters) -Moscow named a new commander for its invasion of Ukraine while Russian private military firm Wagner Group said its capture of the salt mining town Soledar in eastern Ukraine was complete, though the Ukrainian military said the battle was not over. Russian Defence Minister Sergei …
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(Reuters) – An opposition politician who stood against long-time leader Alexander Lukashenko in the controversial 2020 presidential election has been detained, his team said. Andrei Dmitriev, 41, an activist who leads an anti-Lukashenko social movement was detained in the capital Minsk on Wednesday, according to a message posted on his Facebook page. The reason for …
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Britain’s financial services minister sought to reassure U.S. counterparts on Wednesday that the UK’s bout of debt market instability last fall was a one-time event and it has returned to stable government and remains a solid partner for Washington and Wall Street. Andrew Griffith, Britain’s economic secretary to the …
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli troops killed a Palestinian gunman on Wednesday, both sides said, and in a separate incident in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian was shot and killed while carrying out what Israeli authorities described as a stabbing attack on a Jewish settler. The West Bank, among areas where Palestinians seek a …
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By Ricardo Brito and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil’s 11-day-old government braced on Wednesday for more protests by far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters, whose Sunday rampage through public buildings marked the worst attack on the country’s institutions in decades. The government of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva bolstered security measures nationwide as …
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(Reuters) -Forces from Russia’s Wagner Group on Wednesday found the body of one of two British voluntary aid workers reported missing in eastern Ukraine, the private military firm said in a statement. It did not mention the name of the dead man but said documents belonging to both Britons had been found on his body. …
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(Reuters) – Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday was released from a hospital near Orlando, Florida, where he had been admitted on Monday, a source close to the Bolsonaro family said. Earlier, O Globo columnist Lauro Jardim had reported on the news. Bolsonaro, who flew to Florida 48 hours before his term ended, was …
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By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Tigray forces, who fought a two-year war against Ethiopia’s federal government, began handing over heavy weaponry to the national army as part of an African Union-led peace process on Tuesday. The demobilisation of Tigray forces is seen as central to the Nov. 2 ceasefire agreement, alongside the restoration …
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By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday dismissed reports of an imminent repatriation of the Parthenon sculptures known in Britain as the Elgin marbles. Britain and Greece recently began fresh talks over a possible deal to end the long-running dispute. Greece has repeatedly asked the British Museum to permanently return …
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