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Burkina Faso names coup leader Traore as transitional president

14 Oct 2022

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Burkina Faso’s military officials, political parties and civil society leaders on Friday officially designated army captain Ibrahim Traore as the country’s transitional president, two weeks after he seized power in Burkina Faso’s second coup this year. About 300 delegates are meeting over two days in the capital, Ouagadougou, to outline plans to return …

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Zelenskiy promises victory as Ukraine marks Defenders Day

14 Oct 2022

KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy marked Ukraine’s Defenders Day holiday on Friday by promising victory over Russia and freedom for Ukraine. In a video address delivered on hills outside the capital Kyiv, Zelenskiy thanked Ukraine’s armed forces for defending their country. He said everything that had been taken away from Ukraine would be returned, …

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Musk says SpaceX cannot fund Ukraine’s vital Starlink internet indefinitely

14 Oct 2022

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk said on Friday his rocket company SpaceX cannot indefinitely fund its Starlink internet service in Ukraine, which has helped the country’s civilians and military stay online during the war with Russia. Musk’s comment on Twitter came after a media report that SpaceX had asked the Pentagon to pay for the donations …

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CGT union shuns TotalEnergies talks as French petrol crisis drags on

14 Oct 2022

By Caroline Pailliez PARIS (Reuters) -The CGT union at the core of a weeks-long strike at oil major TotalEnergies slammed the door to talks on Friday, leaving more moderate unions to reach a wage deal as industrial action continues to leave French petrol stations short of fuel. Despite the government requisitioning key refinery staff to …

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Swedish Moderates strike coalition deal, Sweden Democrats to back new government

14 Oct 2022

By Anna Ringstrom and Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – The leader of Sweden’s Moderates party, Ulf Kristersson, said on Friday he had agreed a deal with the Christian Democrats and the Liberals to form a minority coalition government after the right-wing bloc won a majority in last month’s election. Sweden’s largest right-wing party, the anti-immigration …

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Five shot dead in North Carolina capital; juvenile suspect arrested

14 Oct 2022

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Five people including an off-duty police officer were shot dead in the North Carolina capital of Raleigh on Thursday, triggering a massive manhunt that shut down part of city for hours and resulted in the arrest of a juvenile suspect, officials said. Two people were wounded: a police officer who was …

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Russian deputy foreign minister: no new signals on U.S. prisoner swap – Interfax

14 Oct 2022

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday that there had been no new signals on a potential prisoner exchange with the United States, Interfax reported. Russia said in August it was ready to discuss a prisoner swap involving Brittney Griner, a U.S. basketball star who was jailed for a drugs …

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Russia needs permission for its ships to probe Nord Stream ruptures – Novak

14 Oct 2022

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia needs permission for its vessels to conduct investigations into explosions that damaged Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday. He did not specify who should grant the permission but Nord Stream AG, the operator of the older Nord Stream 1 pipeline, said last week …

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Russia says there were deaths in alleged Ukrainian shelling of border region

14 Oct 2022

(Reuters) – Russia said on Friday it had opened a criminal investigation into alleged Ukrainian shelling of a Russian border region in which it said people had been killed and wounded. The state Investigative Committee did not specify the number of casualties in Thursday’s incident, in which it said shells fired from Ukraine had destroyed …

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Saudi Arabia, United States clash over reason for OPEC+ oil cut

13 Oct 2022

By Ahmad Elhamy and Moaz Abd-Alaziz CAIRO (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia rejected as “not based on facts” criticism of an OPEC+ decision last week to cut its oil production target despite U.S. objections, and said on Thursday that Washington’s request to delay the cut by a month would have had negative economic consequences. The White House …

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