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Armenia and Azerbaijan clash again as foreign peace efforts intensify

14 Sep 2022 14 Sep 2022

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber TBILISI (Reuters) -New clashes erupted between Azerbaijan and Armenia on Wednesday as international peace efforts intensified a day after the former Soviet republics saw their deadliest violence since 2020 in which hundreds have died. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told parliament that his small, landlocked country had appealed to the Moscow-led Collective …

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Private efforts could complicate U.S. detainees’ release from Russia, State Dept says

14 Sep 2022 14 Sep 2022

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Efforts by private citizens to broker the release of Americans held in Russia could complicate steps Washington is taking to bring U.S. detainees home, a State Department spokesperson said on Wednesday. The comments by spokesperson Ned Price came in response to questions from journalists about a trip this week to Russia by …

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Ten killed in air strikes on capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region – hospital

14 Sep 2022 14 Sep 2022

NAIROBI (Reuters) -A second day of air strikes against the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region killed 10 people on Wednesday, hospital officials said, while local forces accused troops from neighbouring Eritrea of again joining the war against them. Ethiopia’s government, which has been fighting the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) since late 2020, did …

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‘It’s survival’: Fear lingers in the ruins of Ukraine’s liberated Izium

14 Sep 2022 14 Sep 2022

By Tom Balmforth IZIUM, Ukraine (Reuters) – Across a damaged footbridge over the river Siverskyi Donets, shrapnel-sprayed walls and charred Soviet-era housing stand in a panorama of provincial devastation in Ukraine’s liberated town of Izium. Exhausted residents said they were elated by the end of six months of Russian occupation delivered by Ukraine’s counter-attack last …

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Swedish right prepares for power as PM accepts election defeat

14 Sep 2022 14 Sep 2022

By Simon Johnson and Anna Ringstrom STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -The head of Sweden’s Moderate Party, Ulf Kristersson, said on Wednesday he would begin the work of forming a new government after Prime Minster Magdalena Andersson conceded her Social Democrats had lost the weekend’s general election. The Moderates, Sweden Democrats, Christian Democrats and Liberals appear set to …

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Take whatever COVID booster you can get, says head of EU drugs watchdog

14 Sep 2022 14 Sep 2022

By Ludwig Burger, Jennifer Rigby and Natalie Grover FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) -People in Europe should take whatever COVID-19 booster is available to them in the coming months, Emer Cooke, Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), said in a Reuters Next Newsmaker interview ahead of an expected autumn rise in infections. Apart from the original …

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End of COVID pandemic is ‘in sight’ -WHO chief

14 Sep 2022 14 Sep 2022

By Manas Mishra (Reuters) -The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, his most optimistic outlook yet on the years-long health crisis which has killed over six million people. “We are not there yet. But the end is in …

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God does not back war, pope says in apparent criticism of Russian patriarch

14 Sep 2022 14 Sep 2022

By Philip Pullella NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) -Pope Francis said on Wednesday that God does not guide religions towards war, an implicit criticism of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, who backs the invasion of Ukraine and has boycotted a conference of faith leaders. On his second day in Kazakhstan, Francis addressed the Seventh Congress of Leaders of World …

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EU executive chief backs call to reform way bloc acts and decides

14 Sep 2022 14 Sep 2022

STRASBOURG (Reuters) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen voiced her support on Wednesday for the idea of reforming EU institutions through an update of the European Union’s treaties, something she said citizens had shown they wanted. “We need to improve the way we do things and the way we decide things,” von der …

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EU lays out energy crisis plan, says solidarity with Ukraine unshakeable

14 Sep 2022 14 Sep 2022

By Yves Herman and Gabriela Baczynska STRASBOURG (Reuters) -The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled a series of proposals to curb the energy price spike that has rocked Europe in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while stressing that the EU’s solidarity with Kyiv would be “unshakeable.” Energy prices and inflation have surged across the …

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