By Guy Faulconbridge and Felix Light LONDON (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin completed the formal annexation of more than 15% of Ukraine on Wednesday just as Russian forces battled to halt Ukrainian counter-offensives across swathes of the territory. In the biggest expansion of Russian territory in at least half a century, Putin signed laws admitting the …
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By Nandita Bose and Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden promised a new $625-million security assistance package to Ukraine on Tuesday, prompting a warning from Moscow that such a move risked a direct military clash between Russia and the West. The U.S. package would include High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers …
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By Anthony Boadle and Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his leftist challenger were hunting endorsements on Tuesday, party officials said, as they fine tuned their campaigns for a runoff in an election that has proven more competitive than expected. Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won 48.4% of the votes …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France has entered an eighth wave of the COVID-19 virus, as the winter season approaches, said a leading French health official. “Yes, we are in this eighth wave,” said Brigitte Autran, who is a member of the government’s vaccination strategic board. “All the indicators are on the up,” added Autran. France’s COVID …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The wife of a Ukrainian fighter imprisoned by Russia called for his release on Tuesday as a U.N. rights official said monitors had documented cases of Ukrainian prisoners being tortured, in two cases to death. Some Ukrainian soldiers who fought in a weeks-long siege in the battle for the city of Mariupol …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it did not want to take part in “nuclear rhetoric” from the West after a media report that Russia was preparing to demonstrate its willingness to use nuclear weapons in its conflict with Ukraine. The Times newspaper reported on Monday that the NATO military alliance had warned …
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By Johan Ahlander, Ludwig Burger and Niklas Pollard STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments in quantum mechanics that laid the groundwork for rapidly-developing new applications in computing and cryptography. “Their results have cleared the way for new technology based upon quantum information,” …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian Central Bank Governor Kyrylo Shevchenko abruptly submitted his resignation on Tuesday, citing health reasons in a Facebook post. “Due to health-related issues that can no longer be ignored, I have made a difficult decision for myself. I am leaving the post of the head of Ukraine’s National Bank,” he said. Shevchenko, who …
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(Reuters) – Swamped by panic-stricken requests for help to avoid being drafted, Russian lawyers say they are working flat out to offer advice to those at risk of being sent to fight in Ukraine. Lawyers and civil society groups say they have been overwhelmed by demands for support since President Vladimir Putin announced on Sept. …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The upper house of Russia’s parliament voted on Tuesday to approve the incorporation of four Ukrainian regions into Russia, as Moscow sets about formally annexing territory it sized from Kyiv during its seven-month conflict. In a session on Tuesday, the Federation Council unanimously ratified legislation to annex the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and …
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