BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil’s presidential race has drawn about even, a new poll showed on Saturday, a day before the tense runoff vote between right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro and his leftist challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Lula has 51.1% of the valid votes and Bolsonaro has 48.9%, a difference that is equal to the margin …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -The head of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards warned protesters that Saturday would be their last day of taking to the streets, in the clearest sign that security forces may intensify their already fierce crackdown on widespread unrest. Iran has been gripped by protests since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in …
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Two car bomb explosions at the education ministry in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu killed or wounded scores of people on Saturday, police and the state news agency said. Authorities said the Islamist group al Shabaab carried out the attack, which they said had targeted the education ministry, an intersection and a school. “At …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia and Ukraine carried out the latest in series of prisoner of war exchanges on Saturday, with both sides returning around 50 people, officials in Moscow and Kyiv said. Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate reported the return of 52 detainees, among them soldiers, sailors, border guards, national guard members and doctors. Ukrainian President Volodymyr …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States will next week put the United Nations spotlight on protests in Iran sparked by the death of a young woman in police custody and look for ways to promote credible, independent investigations into Iranian human rights abuses. The United States and Albania will hold an …
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By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) -Russia said on Saturday that the accelerated deployment of modernised U.S. B61 tactical nuclear weapons at NATO bases in Europe would lower the “nuclear threshold” and that Russia would take the move into account in its military planning. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered the gravest confrontation between Moscow and …
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By Lucien Libert PARIS (Reuters) – It is hard to come up with something new at Paris’ annual chocolate fair, but French chocolatier Damien Vidal found a way to put a mouth-tingling twist on his confectionary: incorporating the world’s hottest chili. Besides traditional ingredients such as raspberry, cassis and passion fruit, his marble-shaped “Bille en …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -U.S. firm Westinghouse Electric Co will build Poland’s first nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday, confirming a long-awaited decision aiming to reduce the country’s carbon emissions and phase out coal. With Russia waging war in neighbouring Ukraine, Poland’s choice of a partner from the United States underlines the emphasis …
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By Jonathan Landay FRONTLINES NORTH OF KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russia said on Friday it had finished calling up reservists to fight in Ukraine, having drafted hundreds of thousands in a month and sending more than a quarter of them already to the battlefield after a divisive mobilisation campaign that was its first since World …
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By Bill Trott (Reuters) -American rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis, who was torn between his Bible-thumping upbringing and his desire to make hell-raising rock ‘n’ roll with hits such as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” has died at the age of 87. Lewis passed away from natural causes at his …
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