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By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) -Russia’s Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said on Sunday that a former mercenary who was filmed being executed by a sledgehammer blow to the head after changing sides in the Ukraine war was a traitor. Prigozhin, a Russian businessman who founded the Wagner private military group, …

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By Gloria Dickie SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – Issack Hassan lives in a migrant camp in Baidoa city in Somalia – one of more than a million people displaced since January after five successive failed rainy seasons. With Somalia in the grips of its worst drought in 40 years, “people became weak because of hunger, …

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By Jonathan Landay KLAPAYA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Villagers holding flowers waited on the road to the southern city of Kherson to greet and kiss Ukrainian soldiers on Saturday as they poured in to secure control of the right bank of the Dnipro River after a stunning Russian retreat. Volleys of incoming and outgoing artillery fire …

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By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira LISBON (Reuters) – Hundreds of protesters angry about the climate crisis took to the streets of Lisbon on Saturday, with dozens storming a building where Portugal’s Economy Minister Antonio Costa e Silva was speaking demanding that the former oil executive resign. Holding banners and chanting slogans, protesters demanded climate …

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TIRANA (Reuters) – Opposition protesters scuffled with police in front of the office of Prime Minister Edi Rama on Saturday where tens of thousands had gathered to protest against corruption, rising poverty and a growing number of people leaving the country. After demonstrating peacefully for around three hours, protesters broke through the police cordon around …

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By David Ljunggren (Reuters) -Russian forces destroyed the critical infrastructure in the southern city of Kherson before fleeing, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday, adding that local authorities were starting to stabilise the city. But pro-Moscow forces are putting up a much stiffer fight elsewhere and Zelenskiy said the battles in the eastern Donetsk …

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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s hardline judiciary has indicted 11 people over the killing of a Basij security force member during unrest, state media reported on Saturday, as authorities sought to quell nine weeks of protests. State news agency IRNA said some of the 10 men and one woman were charged with “corruption on earth”, which can …

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Saturday that he favours a new round of European Union sanctions on Iran next week. “We want to continue to step up the pressure on the Revolutionary Guard Corps and the political leadership,” he said in a video posted on Twitter. (Reporting by Tom Sims and …

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