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By David Latona MADRID (Reuters) – Two Ukrainian opera houses were awarded this year’s “Opera Oscar” for offering up mellifluous cadenzas and virtuosic trills amid power cuts and artillery blasts on their country’s territory – allowing audiences to evade, if only for a few hours, the war outside. In recognition of their “outstanding work in …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomed a new deal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar on Tuesday as a “building block” towards his country’s energy security and a sign that Berlin had many different countries to tap for supplies. QatarEnergy and ConocoPhillips signed two sales and purchase agreements to export 2 million …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia is firing unarmed cruise missiles that were designed to carry nuclear warheads at targets in Ukraine to try to deplete Kyiv’s stocks of air defenses, a senior U.S. military official said on Tuesday. The official, who declined to be named, was asked about a Nov. 26 assessment by Britain’s military intelligence …

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By Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Reuters) -The head of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Tuesday he still feared a Turkish ground invasion despite U.S. assurances and has demanded a “stronger” message from Washington after seeing unprecedented Turkish deployments along the border. Turkish officials said its forces needed just days to be ready for …

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By Sabine Siebold, John Irish and Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said the alliance would not pull back in its support for Ukraine, calling on partners to pledge more winter aid for Kyiv as it braced itself for more cold and darkness due to Russian attacks on infrastructure. NATO …

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(Reuters) – Russia’s envoy has expressed Moscow’s strong dissatisfaction to the Vatican following Pope Francis’ latest condemnation of the “cruelty” of Russia’s actions in Ukraine, the RIA Novosti news agency reported on Tuesday. Francis had told the Jesuit magazine America in an interview: “When I speak about Ukraine, I speak about the cruelty because I …

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(Note language in paragraph 2 that readers may find offensive) MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has no intention of dropping her lawsuit against anti-mafia author Roberto Saviano, she told Corriere della Sera in an interview published on Tuesday. Saviano, a leading human rights campaigner, went on trial for libel earlier this month …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Nearly all toy, food and stationery retailers in Germany plan to raise their prices with a view to the Christmas shopping season, according to a survey on Tuesday. Toy retailers’ price expectations in particular rose significantly in November, at 94.4 points, from 75.4 points the previous month, found the Ifo economic institute’s …

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By Maya Gebeily and Charlotte Bruneau DOHA (Reuters) – The first World Cup in the Middle East has become a showcase for the political tensions crisscrossing one of the world’s most volatile regions and the ambiguous role often played by host nation Qatar in its crises.     Iran’s matches have been the most politically charged …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba told a gathering of seven Nordic and Baltic foreign ministers on Monday that his country needed transformers and improved air defences to stave off Russian air strikes on energy infrastructure. Kuleba was flanked by officials from Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden ahead of a meeting …

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