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German police detain Iranian suspected of planning ‘Islamist-motivated’ attack

8 Jan 2023

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -German police have taken into custody a 32-year-old Iranian citizen suspected of having procured deadly poisons cyanide and ricin to commit an “Islamist-motivated” attack, authorities in western Germany said on Sunday. The premises of the suspect in the city of Castrop-Rauxel were searched as part of the investigation, according to a joint press …

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Christmas joy and anger for rival Orthodox churches in historic Kyiv monastery

8 Jan 2023

(This Jan. 7 story has been refiled to correct paragraphs 19, 20 and insert context on Bartholomew) By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – Tears of joy streamed down worshippers’ faces as Ukraine’s main church celebrated a “return” to Kyiv’s Cathedral of the Assumption on Orthodox Christmas day, shortly after taking control of it from a …

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Two power plants in Russian-controlled E.Ukraine damaged by rockets – local officials

8 Jan 2023

(Reuters) -Two thermal power plants in part of Ukraine’s Donetsk region controlled by Russian forces were damaged in a rocket attack by the Ukrainian army, Moscow-installed officials and Russia’s state TASS news agency said on Sunday. Early information suggested that the plants in Zuhres and Novyi Svit had been hit and that some people on …

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Iran hangs two men accused of killing security agent during protests

8 Jan 2023

(Reuters) -Iran hanged two men on Saturday for allegedly killing a member of the security forces during nationwide protests that followed the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16, drawing condemnation from the EU, the United States and other Western nations. The two men executed on Saturday had been convicted of …

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Russian mercenary boss says he wants Ukraine’s Bakhmut for its ‘underground cities’

7 Jan 2023

By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – The founder of Russia’s most high-profile mercenary group said on Saturday he wanted his forces and the regular Russian army to capture the small city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine because it possessed “underground cities” that can hold troops and tanks. Russia’s grinding more than five months-long push to …

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Shelling booms around Bakhmut’s streets in ‘Christmas ceasefire’

7 Jan 2023

By Herbert Villaraga BAKHMUT, Ukraine (Reuters) -Shellfire echoed on Saturday around the near-deserted streets of the Ukrainian town of Bakhmut, current focus of the most intense fighting in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite Moscow’s declaration of a ceasefire for Eastern Orthodox Christmas. Sparkling clear skies and a dusting of snow belied the devastation of a …

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Ukrainians mark Orthodox Christmas in Europe with a prayer to return home

7 Jan 2023

By Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska and Riham Alkousaa WARSAW/BERLIN (Reuters) -Victoria, a Ukrainian refugee, is celebrating Orthodox Christmas in Poland with a simple prayer – that next year she will be back at home. The 40-year-old is one of the millions of Ukrainians who have fled the Russian invasion of their homeland and are marking the holiday …

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