MADRID (Reuters) -The family of the Spanish fascist Falange party’s founder, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, have asked to exhume his remains, buried in the monument known as The Valley of the Fallen, where those of dictator Francisco Franco remained until October 2019, Spanish newspaper ABC said on Monday. In a statement from the family …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Hundreds of people protested outside the Russian embassy in Warsaw on Monday, calling for Russia to be designated a terrorist state and for its diplomats to be expelled after missile strikes killed at least 11 people in Ukrainian cities. Opposition to the Russian invasion is intense in Poland, with the country becoming …
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By Max Hunder and Jonathan Landay KYIV (Reuters) -Russia struck cities across Ukraine during rush hour on Monday morning, killing civilians and destroying infrastructure in apparent revenge after President Vladimir Putin declared an explosion on the bridge to Crimea to be a terrorist attack. Cruise missiles tore into busy intersections, parks and tourist sites in …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A Danish Baltic Sea island suffered a power blackout on Monday following an outage at a Swedish transformer station feeding electricity via a subsea cable, operator E.ON said. There was no indication the blackout on Bornholm would have been caused by damage to the cable itself, a spokesperson at the German power …
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CHISINAU (Reuters) – Moldova said three cruise missiles fired by Russia at Ukraine had crossed Moldovan air space on Monday, and that it was summoning the Russian ambassador to explain. “Three cruise missiles launched on Ukraine this morning from Russian ships in the Black Sea crossed Moldova’s airspace. I instructed that Russia’s ambassador be summoned …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Belarus and Russia will deploy a joint military task force in response to what he called an aggravation of tension on the country’s western borders, the state-run Belta news agency reported on Monday. Lukashenko said the two countries would deploy a regional military group, and had started …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Monday he was cutting short a trip to Africa following Russian missiles strikes across his country. “I am in constant contact with partners since early morning today to coordinate a resolute response to Russians attacks. I am also interrupting my Africa tour and heading back …
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By Corina Pons and Catarina Demony MADRID/LISBON (Reuters) – Ukrainian psychologist Tatyana Bogkova was on a birthday trip in Poland with her mother and four-year-old daughter when Russian troops invaded her homeland earlier this year. With shells raining on Kharkiv city and her policeman husband staying to fight, the 32-year-old chose to take refuge in …
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(Reuters) -A loud explosion was heard on Monday morning in Russia’s Belgorod region, close to the border with Ukraine, two witnesses told Reuters. The witnesses reported a loud bang and windows shaking. Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency cited local officials as saying the blast was caused by explosions of ammunition at a landfill site. Belgorod …
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KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia timed its strikes on Ukraine on Monday to inflict the greatest possible losses among people and had also targeted the country’s energy infrastructure. “They want panic and chaos, they want to destroy our energy system,” Zelenskiy said in a video post that showed him outside his presidential …
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