By Toby Sterling GRUBBENVORST, Netherlands (Reuters) – Greenhouse owner Pieter Wijnen would like to focus on growing vegetables, but since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, his life has revolved around gas and electricity prices rather than his red and yellow bell peppers or mini cucumbers. “In a greenhouse like this in the wintertime, you …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany plans to subsidise a basic level of electricity usage for households and set aside cheaper power for small and medium-sized businesses, according to measures set out in an Economy Ministry paper seen by Reuters on Thursday. Electricity distributors would be required to grant households a certain electricity quota at a discounted price …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States accused Moscow of committing a war crime on Wednesday by forcibly deporting Ukrainians to Russia and said it has information that Russian officials are overseeing so-called filtration operations. “These operations aim to identify individuals Russia deems insufficiently compliant or compatible to its control,” U.S. Ambassador …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces are making “slow but meaningful progress” on the battlefield and are currently doing better in the south than Russia, a senior Pentagon official said on Wednesday. “It is early days. I think the Ukrainians are making slow but meaningful progress. And we’ll see how things pan out,” Under Secretary of …
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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -Shelling on Tuesday damaged a backup power line at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine, which has already lost all four of its regular power lines, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said in a statement on Wednesday. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said there was no immediate …
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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the way Britain chooses its leaders was “far from democratic”, a day after Liz Truss replaced Boris Johnson as prime minister. In his first public comments on Truss’s appointment, Putin alluded to the fact she was chosen in a leadership ballot by members of …
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By Raneen Sawafta JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man and wounded 16 others during a raid in the occupied West Bank in which the military blew up the house of a Palestinian who had carried out a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv, witnesses and medics said. Columns of Israeli …
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By Ismail Shakil and Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canadian authorities urged residents of the James Smith Cree Nation to remain indoors on Tuesday after reports of a possible sighting of the suspect in a weekend stabbing spree that left 10 people dead and shocked a country where mass violence is rare. CBC News reported a …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -An Israeli air attack on Syria’s Aleppo airport on Tuesday has damaged the runway and taken the airport out of service, the Syrian defence ministry said. The Israel missile attack was launched from the Mediterranean Sea, west of the coastal city of Latakia, at 8:16 p.m. local time (1716 GMT), the ministry said …
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By Pavel Polityuk and Francois Murphy KYIV/VIENNA (Reuters) -Ukrainian officials said they would announce on Tuesday a major new military success in the east of the country, an unexpected advance just a week after Kyiv declared a big new counter-offensive hundreds of kilometres away in the south. “Tonight there is going to be great news …
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