(Reuters) – Russian fertilizer producer Uralchem-Uralkali has agreed with the Netherlands, Estonia and Belgium to supply cargoes of fertilizers stranded in those countries to Africa, TASS news agency reported on Saturday. It cited Uralchem’s head Dmitry Konyaev as saying the group was “actively working with the U.N. to organise free deliveries to Africa of more …
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – A sister of jailed hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah said she has appealed directly to Egypt’s president for an amnesty for her brother, whose protest has overshadowed a global climate summit in Egypt this week. Mona Seif resubmitted a request for clemency which she first made in June, along with …
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LA PAZ (Reuters) -Bolivia will hold its first census in more than a decade in 2024, President Luis Arce said in a midnight speech on Saturday, scheduling it a year later than demanded by the opposition, as protests crippling part of the nation hit the three-week mark. The largest city of Santa Cruz, a relatively …
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By Emma Farge and Daphne Psaledakis GENEVA (Reuters) -Senior United Nations officials met with a Russian delegation in Geneva on Friday to discuss Moscow’s grievances about the Black Sea grains export initiative and address the need for unimpeded food and fertilizer exports, a U.N. spokesperson said. The negotiations come eight days before the deal brokered …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s ruling coalition parties have agreed a raft of new trade policy measures, including quitting the Energy Charter Treaty, which has come to be seen as an obstacle to tackling climate change. The three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government also said they had agreed to back the ratification of the European …
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LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) -Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany’s priority in its aid to Ukraine should be to help it defend itself from Russian air raids on its cities and to help it rebuild its infrastructure. He added in an interview with RND newspapers on Friday that Europe should prepare to receive more refugees from Ukraine, …
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(Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Friday that work was underway to address a number of Russian concerns regarding the Black Sea grain initiative, which is due to expire on Nov. 19. Speaking as delegates from Russia and the United Nations were due to meet in Geneva to discuss a possible extension to the deal, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Friday that Russian forces’ withdrawal from Kherson would not change the status of the region, which Moscow has proclaimed part of Russia after moving to annex it from Ukraine. Russia claimed Kherson and three other Ukrainian regions after holding what it called referendums in September – votes that …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin does not plan to address the Group of 20 summit via video, the Kremlin said on Friday. Asked why Putin was not going to attend the G20 summit in Bali, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was related to Putin’s schedule and the need to stay in Russia. …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Six people were killed in a Russian missile attack on an apartment building in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv early on Friday, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said. Rescuers were digging through the debris for survivors, Senkevych wrote on the Telegram messaging app. A Reuters reporter in the area heard three impacts, the …
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