OSLO (Reuters) – Swedish prosecutors will review material from a police investigation into the damage to the Nord Stream pipelines, and decide on further actions to be taken in the case, the Sweden’s Prosecution Authority said in a statement on Wednesday. (Reporting by Terje Solsvik, editing by Essi Lehto)
(This Sept. 27 story corrects time of second blast to 1703 GMT, not 0503 GMT) COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Two seismic shakings resembling blasts rather than those recorded from earthquakes were recorded on Monday at seismographic stations in Denmark, Sweden and Germany, Denmark’s Geological Survey said on Tuesday. The first shaking happened at 0003 GMT measuring …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin’s latest warning that he is ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia amid the war in Ukraine has made a troubling question much more urgent: Is the former KGB spy bluffing? Putin cautioned it was no bluff, and Western politicians, diplomats and …
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(Reuters) – President Volodynyr Zelenskiy issued a fresh denunciation on Tuesday of Russian-staged votes in occupied parts of Ukraine approving proposals to become part of Russia, saying they were a “farce” and could never be described as legitimate referendums. “This farce in the occupied territories cannot even be called an imitation of a referendum,” Zelenskiy …
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By Daphne Psaledakis and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will introduce a resolution at the United Nations Security Council condemning referendums held by Russia in occupied regions of Ukraine, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. said on Tuesday. The resolution, to be introduced jointly with Albania, will call on member states not to …
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By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian riot police and security forces clashed with demonstrators in dozens of cities on Tuesday, state media and social media said, as protests raged on over the death of young Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in police custody. Amini, 22, from the northwestern Kurdish city of Saqez, was arrested on Sept. …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – The head of the World Trade Organization said on Tuesday the 164-member body can negotiate more ambitious deals, such as on agriculture, climate change and internal reform by its next major meeting, after concluding a series of trade deals in June. The agreements were the first for the trade …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Caleb Davis LONDON (Reuters) -An ally of President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday outlined the scenario of a nuclear strike on Ukraine, saying that the U.S.-led NATO military alliance would be too scared of a ‘nuclear apocalypse’ to directly enter the conflict in reponse. Dmitry Medvedev, a former president who now serves …
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By Felix Light LONDON (Reuters) – A gunman was detained after opening fire at a military draft office in Russia’s Irkutsk region on Monday, the local governor said. The gunman, who in a video published on social media is seen identifying himself to police officers as 25-year-old Ruslan Zinin, opened fire at a draft office …
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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on Monday in the world’s first test of a planetary defense system, designed to prevent a potential doomsday meteorite collision with Earth. Humanity’s first attempt to alter the motion of an asteroid or any celestial body played out …
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