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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy: Situation at the front is “difficult and painful”

(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that the situation at the front in the Donbas region was “difficult and painful” and required all of the country’s “strength and concentration”. “First of all, matters at the front. Bakhmut, Kreminna and other areas in Donbas, which require a maximum of strength and concentration.” Zelenskiy …

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‘The ICU is full’: medical staff on frontline of China’s COVID fight say hospitals are ‘overwhelmed’

By Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) – In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein said, he has never seen anything like this. Patients are arriving at his hospital in ever-increasing numbers; almost all are elderly and many are very unwell with COVID and pneumonia symptoms, he said. Bernstein’s account reflects …

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Russia says it shot down Ukrainian drone near bomber air base, three killed

By Lidia Kelly and Andrew Osborn (Reuters) -Russia said on Monday it had shot down a Ukrainian drone close to one of its air bases for long-range bombers deep inside its own territory and that three Russian air force personnel had been killed in the incident. The drone was allegedly flying near Russia’s Engels air …

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All missing people found alive after Austrian avalanche – APA

BERLIN (Reuters) – The last two people unaccounted for after an avalanche in the Lech/Zuers skiing area in western Austria contacted authorities late on Sunday, and a search and rescue operation was suspended, the Austrian Press Agency (APA) reported on Monday. The avalanche occurred shortly before 3 p.m. (1400 GMT) on Sunday, APA said, adding …

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Russia’s long-range air force to get new hypersonic missiles – Interfax

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s long-range air forces are to be refitted with new wing-borne hypersonic missiles, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday, citing the force’s commanding officer. “In the interests of long-range aviation, the development and supply of the entire range of aviation weapons, including new cruise hypersonic missiles, is being carried out,” Interfax …

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Putin says Russia ready to negotiate over Ukraine, Kyiv says Moscow doesn’t want talks

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia is ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the war in Ukraine but Kyiv and its Western backers have refused to engage in talks, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired on Sunday. Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine has triggered the most deadly European conflict since …

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Paris shooting suspect expressed ‘hatred of foreigners’, says prosecutor

PARIS (Reuters) -A suspect accused of gunning down three Kurdish people in Paris told investigators of his “hatred of foreigners”, the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday. The 69-year-old man was arrested on Friday after two men and a woman were shot dead at a Kurdish cultural centre and nearby Kurdish cafe in the French capital’s …

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Ukraine will create its own Christmas miracle, Zelenskiy says in defiant message

By David Ljunggren (Reuters) – Ukrainians will create their own miracle this Christmas by showing they remain unbowed despite Russian attacks that have plunged millions into darkness, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a defiant message on Saturday. Speaking 10 months to the day since Russian launched a war that has killed tens of thousands and …

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Remember the war weary and the poor, pope urges on Christmas Eve

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Saturday led the world’s Catholics into Christmas, saying in an apparent reference to the war in Ukraine and other conflicts that the level of greed and hunger for power was such that some wanted to “consume even their neighbours”. Francis, celebrating the 10th Christmas of …

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