LISBON (Reuters) – A Portuguese court ordered four climate activists to pay a fine on Friday for occupying a university building to protest what they perceived as political inaction around climate change. The protesters, all students between the ages of 19 and 22, occupied a building of Lisbon’s Faculty of Humanities for five days last …
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By Tom Balmforth and Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) -Russia rained down scores of missiles on Ukraine’s power grid on Friday, killing at least three people, damaging nine energy facilities and forcing Kyiv to introduce emergency blackouts across the country as winter bites. Many people headed for shelters during the morning rush hour to take cover …
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By Tom Balmforth and Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – Russia fired more than 70 missiles at Ukraine on Friday in one of its biggest attacks since the start of the war, knocking out power in the second-biggest city and forcing Kyiv to implement emergency blackouts nationwide, Ukrainian officials said. Three people were killed when an …
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By Yurii Kovalenko KYIV (Reuters) – Hanna Vavarenko had a joyful reunion with her husband at a Kyiv railway station on Friday, nine months after she fled to Germany to escape the war in Ukraine. She and her son made it back to Ukraine in time for the traditional New Year festivities, despite a last-minute …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati said on Friday that those responsible for the killing of an Irish soldier on a U.N. peacekeeping mission two days ago “will be punished.” One soldier was shot and killed late on Wednesday and a second was in a critical condition after a hostile crowd surrounded their …
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LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA, Spain (Reuters) – Blind surfer Aitor Francesena uses his sense of hearing to build a mental picture of how the waves are behaving when he goes into the sea. Francesena, who lost his vision a decade ago, is the current world champion in adaptive surfing and is competing in the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States, United Kingdom, Norway and the European Union expressed horror at the escalation of violence in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state and urged delivery of humanitarian aid, according to a joint statement issued on Friday. Reports of killings, property destruction and sexual violence “are horrifying and cannot go unaddressed,” the …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -An aquarium in Berlin that was home to around 1,500 exotic fish burst early on Friday, spilling 1 million litres (264,172 gallons) of water and debris onto a major road in the busy Mitte district, emergency services said. Around 100 emergency responders rushed to the scene, a leisure complex that houses a Radisson …
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VIENNA (Reuters) – Ten-year-old Danylo Astion fled Ukraine with his family soon after Russia invaded but his dream of becoming a soccer star lives on in Vienna, where training for one of Austria’s top teams has rekindled his lust for life. Danylo fled Kyiv in March with his family, taking little more than the clothes …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European chief prosecutor requested on Thursday that the European Parliament lift the immunity from prosecution of two Greek members over suspicions of fraud. The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that its request followed a report from EU anti-fraud office OLAF and suspicions of fraud related to the management of parliamentary allowances …
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