By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) -An engine-cooling problem forced NASA on Monday to postpone for at least four days the debut test launch of the colossal new rocketship it plans to use for future astronaut flights back to the moon, more than 50 years after Apollo’s last lunar mission. The …
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By Nerijus Adomaitis and Christoph Steitz STAVANGER, Norway/FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia of economic terrorism on Monday as the cost of Europe’s energy crisis spiralled with Germany on the hook for at least 19 billion euros to bail out its biggest importer of Russian gas. A surge in gas prices as top …
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By Lisa Richwine and Danielle Broadway (Reuters) -Taylor Swift won the top honor at MTV’s annual Video Music Awards on Sunday for a 10-minute version of her 2012 breakup song “All Too Well” and made a surprise announcement of a new album coming in October. The singer thanked fans from the stage at the Prudential …
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By George Georgiopoulos ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek lawmakers on Monday voted in favour of setting up an inquiry commission to probe the phone tapping of an opposition leader that led Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to sack the head of the country’s intelligence service (EYP). The scandal over the wiretapping of Nikos Androulakis, leader of socialist …
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(Reuters) – Russia’s FSB security service on Monday named another Ukrainian it said was part of a team that assassinated Darya Dugina, the daughter of a prominent Russian ultra-nationalist who believes Ukraine should be absorbed into a new Russian empire. Dugina, who like her father Alexander Dugin was a vocal supporter of what Russia calls …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Monday Sweden would provide a further 500 million crowns ($46.75 million) in military assistance to Ukraine to help it defend itself against Russia’s invasion. Andersson told reporters after hosting Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba for talks that her government would provide a total additional aid package …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The Group of Seven’s Non-Proliferation Directors’ Group on Monday welcomed a trip by the U.N. nuclear watchdog to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and reiterated concerns about the safety of the plant under the control of Russian armed forces. “We reaffirm that the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant and the electricity that it produces …
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By Pavel Polityuk and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -Russian artillery fired at Ukrainian towns across the river from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant overnight, local officials said on Sunday, adding to residents’ anguish as reports of shelling around the plant fuelled fears of a radiation disaster. Russia’s defence ministry said there was more Ukrainian shelling …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -European judges’ associations challenged in European Union’s General Court a decision to approve Poland’s recovery and resilience plan, they said in a statement on Sunday. Poland’s access to 23.9 billion euros ($23.8 billion) in grants and 11.5 billion euros in cheap loans had been blocked due to a dispute over judicial independence. But …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s ruling Social Democrats (SPD) will propose further measures to help its citizens cope with rising energy prices, including another discounted national transport ticket, a document seen by Reuters showed on Sunday. Households are facing higher energy costs after the German gas market operator set a levy from October to help utilities …
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