NAIROBI (Reuters) -An air strike on a children’s play area killed at least seven people in the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region on Friday, medical officials there said, the first such attack after a four-month old ceasefire collapsed this week. The officials said three children were among the dead but a a federal government …
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By Catarina Demony LUANDA (Reuters) -The party that has ruled Angola continuously for nearly 50 years claimed victory on Friday in this week’s election, after the electoral commission put its share of the vote at 51%, but the leader of the main opposition coalition rejected the results. Fewer than half of Angola’s registered voters turned …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Stockholm police on Friday arrested several people after explosives were found in a park in the Swedish capital last week, and said investigations would continue. The police gave no detail on a potential target or a motive, but said there was still no suspicion of a terror-related crime. On Sunday, three weeks …
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By Piroschka van de Wouw TER APEL, Netherlands (Reuters) -Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday said he was “ashamed” of problems at the country’s centre for processing asylum requests as humanitarian group Medecins sans Frontieres sent in a team to assist with migrants’ medical needs. His government announced a series of measures intended to …
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) -Government digital infrastructure in Montenegro has been hit by an “unprecedented” cyber attack and timely measures have been taken to mitigate its impact, authorities said on Friday. “Certain services were switched off temporarily for security reasons but the security of accounts belonging to citizens and companies and their data have not been jeopardised,” …
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BELGRADE (Reuters) – Mediated talks over the status of ethnic Serbs in Kosovo have failed to ease tensions – fuelled by a dispute over car number plates – between Belgrade and authorities in Pristina, Serbia’s president said on Friday. Aleksandar Vucic said hours of talks with European Union and U.S. envoys had failed to lead …
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(Reuters) -The world narrowly avoided a radiation accident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear station in Ukraine on Thursday after power was cut to the two remaining working reactors, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Ukraine’s state nuclear company Energoatom said fires in the ash pits of a coal power station near the complex had disconnected the reactors from …
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ALGIERS (Reuters) -President Emmanuel Macron indicated France and Algeria should move beyond their “painful” shared history and look to the future on Thursday at the start of a three-day visit to the North African country. The trauma of French colonial rule in Algeria and the bitter independence war that ended it in 1962 has haunted …
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By Max Hunder and Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said its Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was disconnected from the Ukrainian grid for the first time ever on Thursday, fueling fears of a possible mishap at Europe’s largest nuclear facility that is now under Russia’s control. Ukraine’s state nuclear company Energoatom said fires in the ash …
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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) – The last of four regular power lines supplying the Russian-held nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine was briefly cut on Thursday, meaning the plant had to resort to backup power for the first time, thinning its defences against a meltdown. In all nuclear power plants, fission of nuclear …
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