By Mahamat Ramadane N’DJAMENA (Reuters) -About 50 people were killed and nearly 300 injured in violence that broke out in Chad on Thursday as hundreds took to the streets to demand a quicker transition to democratic rule. Prime Minister Saleh Kebzabo, who gave the death toll at a news conference, said the government was still …
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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Washington said on Thursday it believed Iranian military staff had been deployed in Crimea to provide assistance to Russian forces using Iranian-made drones to attack Ukraine, as the West slapped sanctions on Tehran in response. The drones have been used to destroy Ukrainian power plants and other utilities in …
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By Sarah McFarlane, Timothy Gardner and Susanna Twidale WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. firms developing a new generation of small nuclear power plants to help cut carbon emissions have a big problem: only one company sells the fuel they need, and it’s Russian. That’s why the U.S. government is urgently looking to use some of its …
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By Carolyn Cohn and Noor Zainab Hussain LONDON (Reuters) – Insurance for humanitarian workers, journalists, engineers and others heading to Ukraine is now more expensive and harder to organise than during the Iraq war. While initially nervous about providing cover in the immediate aftermath of Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow refers to a …
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ROME (Reuters) – The 20 bottles of vodka sent to Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi as a birthday gift from Russian President Vladimir Putin breach European sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine, the European Commission said on Thursday. Former prime minister Berlusconi, whose Forza Italia party is set to be a member of Italy’s new coalition …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainians faced their first large-scale nationwide disruptions to electricity on Thursday as officials sought to restrict supply to allow energy companies to repair power facilities that have been pounded by Russian air strikes. The president’s office told Ukrainians late on Wednesday that they should minimise their use of electricity from 7 a.m. …
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By Matthias Williams and Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin is using energy and hunger as weapons but has failed to break the West’s unity and will not achieve his war aims through scorched earth tactics, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday. Speaking to parliament, Scholz also said Germany had freed itself …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Sweden will involve itself more clearly and deeply in NATO’s counter-terrorism activities, the country’s recently appointed Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told a joint news conference with NATO’s secretary general on Thursday. (Reporting by Stine Jacobsen, editing by Terje Solsvik)
By John Irish and Arshad Mohammed PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Western actors and officials have cut their hair on camera to dramatize their support for Iranian women whose protests have rocked the Islamic Republic since a 22-year-old woman died in the custody of Iran’s morality police over a month ago. “For Freedom,” French actor Juliette Binoche …
By Emma Pinedo MADRID (Reuters) – Flor Baena has spent decades trying to clear the name of her brother Jose Humberto, who was one of the last five people executed under General Francisco Franco’s fascist regime just two months before the dictator’s death in 1975. But on Thursday, the leftist government’s Democratic Memory law tackling …
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