By Toby Sterling THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Prime Minister Mark Rutte is due to deliver a speech on Monday in which he is expected to apologise for the Netherlands’ historical role in slavery and its consequences into the present day. The apology would come amid a wider reconsideration of the country’s colonial past, including efforts …
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By Gleb Garanich and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Russia unleashed 35 “kamikaze” drones on Ukraine in the early hours of Monday as many people slept, hitting critical infrastructure in and around Kyiv in Moscow’s third air attack on the Ukrainian capital in six days. The Ukrainian Air Force said its air defences shot down 30 …
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OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s King Harald was hospitalised on Monday with an infection and is being treated with intravenous antibiotics, the royal household said in a statement. The 85-year-old monarch was in a stable condition, it said. The king has been Norway’s ceremonial head of state since 1991. (Reporting by Stine Jacobsen in Copenhagen and …
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By Mitch Phillips LUSAIL, Qatar (Reuters) -Argentina won their third World Cup in an extraordinary final on Sunday as they beat France 4-2 on penalties after Lionel Messi scored twice in a 3-3 draw and Kylian Mbappe grabbed a hat-trick to bring the holders back from 2-0 and 3-2 down. It was an incredible night …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -A unit at an oil and gas condensate Markovskoye (Markovsky) field in Russia’s Irkutsk region in Siberia caught fire over an area of about 1,000 square metres, but the blaze was brought under control, emergency services said on Sunday. A report on the Telegram messaging app said firefighters gradually brought the fire under …
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By Timour Azhari and Emilie Madi BEIRUT (Reuters) – Every time a part of his old grey Mercedes breaks, 62-year-old Beirut cab driver Abed Omayraat faces a tough choice: go into debt to import an expensive car part, or raise fares for customers whose wallets are already drained by a severe economic crisis. It’s a …
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By Henriette Chacar BEIT JALA, West Bank (Reuters) – In a small distillery just outside Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a clear liquid drips out of a copper pot still into a stainless steel barrel, ringing like church bells. Every year with the start of Advent, which arrives shortly after the end of the …
By Emily Rose JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel deported French-Palestinian human rights lawyer Salah Hamouri to France on Sunday, accusing him of security offences, the Israeli interior ministry said in a statement. Hamouri, 37, a lifelong Jerusalem resident, was escorted to the airport where he boarded an early morning flight to France with his supporters saying there …
By Luiza Ilie and Gergely Szakacs BUCHAREST (Reuters) – The leaders of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania and Hungary signed an agreement on Saturday on the construction of an electric cable running under the Black Sea to carry green Azeri energy from planned Caspian Sea windfarms to Europe. The agreement involves a 1,100 km (685 mile), 1,000 …
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(Reuters) – Heating has been fully restored to Kyiv after the latest Russian bombardment that targeted water and power infrastructure, the capital’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Sunday. “The city is restoring all services after the latest shelling,” Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app. “In particular, the capital’s heat supply system was fully restored. …
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