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Russia to bar foreigners from using its surrogate mothers – lawmaker

27 Nov 2022

(Reuters) – Russia will soon adopt a law barring foreigners from using Russian surrogate mothers, Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of parliament said on Sunday, the nation’s Mother’s Day. Paid surrogacy is legal in Russia, but the practice has been criticised by religious groups as commercializing the birth of children. “Everything must …

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Snow to blanket Kyiv from Sunday as power still in short supply

27 Nov 2022

By Oleksandr Kozhukhar KYIV (Reuters) -Heavy snowfall was expected in Kyiv starting on Sunday, with temperatures dropping below freezing day and night, while millions of people who still live in and around the Ukrainian capital remain with little electricity and heat. Grid operator Ukrenergo said on Saturday that electricity producers were able to cover only …

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Progressives returned for third term in Australia’s Victoria state

27 Nov 2022

SYDNEY (Reuters) -The progressive government of Australia’s Victoria state won re-election on Saturday, clearing the way for spending on infrastructure, education and healthcare. After eight years in power in the country’s second-most populous state, centre-left Labor was tipped to defeat its Liberal-National coalition opposition, and the government, led by Daniel Andrews, was comfortably returned at …

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Equatorial Guinea president wins re-election, VP says on Twitter

27 Nov 2022

DAKAR (Reuters) -Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has won re-election with 95% of the Nov. 20 vote and his party took all the senate and parliament seats, his son Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue said on Twitter on Saturday. Reuters was not able to immediately verify the claim. A win would given Obiang, …

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Ukraine, partners launch $150 million grain export plan to help vulnerable nations

26 Nov 2022

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy hosted a summit in Kyiv with allied nations on Saturday to launch a plan to export $150 million worth of grain to countries most vulnerable to famine and drought. The “Grain from Ukraine” initiative demonstrated global food security was “not just empty words” for Kyiv, he said. The Kremlin …

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Russian shelling has killed 32 in Kherson region since liberation – police

26 Nov 2022

(Reuters) – At least 32 people in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson have been killed by Russian shelling since pro-Moscow forces pulled out two weeks ago, the head of Ukraine’s police said on Saturday. Russian forces completed their withdrawal from the city of Kherson on Nov. 11 after an almost nine-month occupation. They are …

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Former Ivory Coast militia leader Ble Goude returns home after exile

26 Nov 2022

ABIDJAN (Reuters) -Charles Ble Goude, a former militia leader who was acquitted of crimes against humanity related to his role in Ivory Coast’s civil war, returned from exile on Saturday as politicians sought to reconcile after years of instability and conflict. Hundreds of supporters wearing clothes printed with Ble Goude’s image sang and danced in …

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Ukraine remembers Stalin-era famine as Russia war rages

26 Nov 2022

By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine accused the Kremlin on Saturday of reviving the “genocidal” tactics of Josef Stalin as Kyiv commemorated a Soviet-era famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the winter of 1932-33. The remembrance day for the “Holodomor” comes as Ukraine is battling to repel invading Russian forces and deal with sweeping …

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Landslide hits Italian island of Ischia, one woman dead, 10 missing

26 Nov 2022

By Ciro de Luca and Gianluca Semeraro CASAMICCIOLA TERME/MILAN (Reuters) -A woman was found dead and around 10 people were still missing on the southern Italian holiday island of Ischia after a landslide engulfed buildings during heavy rain on Saturday, a local Italian government official said. Torrential rain hit the port of Casamicciola Terme, one …

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Belarus foreign minister Makei dies suddenly – Belta

26 Nov 2022

(Reuters) – Belarus’s long-standing foreign minister has died suddenly, the state news agency Belta reported on Saturday, two days before he was meant to meet his Russian counterpart. “Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei has passed away suddenly,” Belta reported without giving further detail. Makei had held his post since 2012. Makei, 64, attended a conference of …

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