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(Fixes byline) By David Chkhikvishvili TBILISI (Reuters) -When Laura Fernandez’s fellow dancers at the Stanislavsky Theatre in Moscow began discussing the war in Ukraine, she knew she would have to leave. Swiss-born, with a Ukrainian mother, Fernandez, 24, was a soloist at the Stanislavsky and rising star of the ballet world when Russian President Vladimir …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Power was gradually being restored to Ukrainian cities including the capital Kyiv on Thursday, a day after Russian missile strikes caused Kyiv’s biggest outages in nine months of war. Regional authorities said 25% of homes in Kyiv was still without electricity but the water supply had been restored in some areas and would …

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WARSAW (Reuters) – The European Union’s gas price cap proposal is a ‘joke’, Polish climate minister Anna Moskwa said on Thursday. Moskwa’s criticism followed disagreement among the 27 European Union countries on Wednesday over a proposal to cap future gas prices at 275 euros per megawatt hour (MWh). “The gas cap proposal is key, but …

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By Aziz El Yaakoubi, Pavel Polityuk and Jonathan Saul RIYADH (Reuters) – Representatives from Russia and Ukraine met in the United Arab Emirates last week to discuss the possibility of a prisoner-of-war swap that would be linked to a resumption of Russian ammonia exports, which go to Asia and Africa, via a Ukrainian pipeline, three …

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary will provide 187 million euros ($195 million) in financial aid to Ukraine as its contribution to a planned EU support package worth up to 18 billion euros in 2023, according to a government decree published late on Wednesday. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government has said that it was willing to pay …

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KYIV (Reuters) – The entire Kyiv region was without electricity on Wednesday after Russian air strikes targeted critical infrastructure, said Oleksii Kuleba, head of the regional military administration. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko also reported on the Telegram messaging app that water supply had been cut off. (Reporting by Dan Peleschuk, Editing by Timothy Heritage)

WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Wednesday he had asked Germany to send Patriot missile launchers offered to Poland to Ukraine. “After further Russian missile attacks, I asked Germany to have the Patriot batteries offered to Poland transferred to Ukraine and deployed at its western border,” Blaszczak wrote on Twitter. “This will …

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By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) -European nations agreed on Wednesday to boost spending on space by 17% to stay on the heels of United States and China in two days of intense bargaining overshadowed by rising energy prices. The European Space Agency (ESA) said its 22 member states had agreed to provide 16.9 billion euros …

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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Most galaxies are built around humongous black holes. While many of these are comparatively docile, like the one at our Milky Way’s center, some are fierce – guzzling surrounding material and unleashing huge and blazingly bright jets of high-energy particles far into space. Using data from the recently deployed …

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