CERNOBBIO, Italy (Reuters) – The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) mission to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant could still be important despite the difficulties met due to Russian presence at the site, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday. “We did everything to ensure that IAEA would get access to the Zaporizhzhia plant and I believe …
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By Felix Light (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet empire the full state honours granted to Boris Yeltsin. Gorbachev, idolised in the West for allowing eastern Europe to escape Soviet communist control …
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By Jonathan Landay and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration said on Thursday it cannot hold talks with Moscow on a treaty to replace the last U.S.-Russian pact limiting strategic nuclear arms until inspections of the two countries’ nuclear weapons sites, which are currently paused, resume. “The first step is to …
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By Tom Balmforth ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) -The head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog, ignoring gunfire he said had come uncomfortably close, visited the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine on Thursday and said his experts would stay at the facility. Rafael Grossi, who spent several hours at the plant, said he would continue to …
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(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday stressed the importance of teaching a Kremlin-approved version of history, saying many children in eastern Ukraine did not know that Ukraine and Russia had once been part of the same country. Putin met selected schoolchildren from all over Russia in a classroom in Kaliningrad for the “Talking …
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Four people were killed in clashes among rival Shi’ite Muslim militants in the southern Iraqi city of Basra that took place overnight and on Thursday morning, local security officials said. It was the latest violence to hit the country in a political crisis that pits followers of the powerful Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr …
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By Steve Keating NEW YORK (Reuters) -Playing more like a world number one than a player ranked outside the top 600, Serena Williams turned back the clock on Wednesday to stun world number two Anett Kontaveit 7-6(4) 2-6 6-2 and move into the third round of the U.S. Open, putting her retirement plans on pause. …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Rafael Grossi said that he would consider establishing a continued presence at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant before heading to the plant on Thursday. “There has been increased military activity including this morning, until very recently, a few minutes ago … but weighing the pros and …
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KYIV (Reuters) – The Ukrainian president’s chief of staff accused Russia of seeking to “wreck” the International Atomic Energy Agency’s inspection visit to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, saying Russia shelled the plant again on Thursday. “The Russians have shelled (the town of) Enerhodar and the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant,” Yermak wrote on …
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(Reuters) – The funeral of the Soviet Union’s last leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday in Moscow aged 91, will take place on Saturday, Russian news agencies reported, citing Gorbachev’s daughter and a spokesperson for his foundation. It will be held in the famous Hall of Columns inside Moscow’s House of Unions, agencies reported, …
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