MADRID (Reuters) – Two trains collided on Wednesday morning in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region and several people were lightly injured, local emergency services said. “Among the passengers, several people were lightly injured and are pending evaluation,” the emergency services said on Twitter. (Reporting by Inti Landauro; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited troops close to front lines in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday and expressed thanks to everyone involved in the war effort to mark the country’s Armed Forces Day. Addressing servicemen later in the presidential palace in Kyiv, Zelenskiy said he had spent the day with troops in Donbas, theatre …
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By Tim Cocks and Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa is weathering the worst scandal of his presidency thanks to the backing of his party, which is keenly aware its best hope of retaining power at 2024 elections is to keep him as leader. Battered as his reputation may be by the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has neither encouraged nor enabled the Ukrainians to strike inside of Russia, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday, but repeated Washington’s determination to make sure Kyiv has the equipment it needs to defend itself. A third Russian airfield was ablaze on Tuesday from a drone strike, …
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By Horaci Garcia and Michael Gore BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) – Spain fans were left in tears on Tuesday after the team crashed out of the World Cup on penalties to Morocco, whose fans filled the streets with cheers, flares and flags from Barcelona to Madrid and the enclave of Melilla. People had packed into bars decked …
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By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is not enabling or encouraging Ukraine to strike beyond its borders, the State Department said on Tuesday, after Ukraine demonstrated an apparent new ability to penetrate hundreds of kilometers into Russian air space with attacks on air bases. Moscow said attacks on Monday killed three of its …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Athens on Tuesday to mark the 14th anniversary of the police killing of a teenage boy, whose death triggered Greece’s worst riots in decades. The annual march to commemorate the fatal shooting of 15-year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos passed by parliament and ended near the …
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By Fernando Kallas AL RAYYAN, Qatar (Reuters) -Achraf Hakimi calmly converted a penalty to send Morocco through to the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time with a 3-0 shootout win over former champions Spain after a cagey last-16 clash ended goalless on Tuesday. The Spanish-born Hakimi chipped in the decisive penalty, prompting a deafening …
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By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Twin strikes on air bases deep inside Russian territory have dealt Moscow a major reputational blow and raised questions about why its defences failed, analysts said, as attention turned to the use of drones in the war between neighbours. Ukrainian officials revelled in the blasts but declined to acknowledge Kyiv’s …
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By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudanese political parties and the military signed a framework deal on Monday that they said would pave the way for two-year civilian-led transition towards elections and end a sometimes violent standoff triggered by a coup in October 2021. The deal could mark a new phase for Sudan, …
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