By George Obulutsa and Ayenat Mersie NAIROBI/KISUMU (Reuters) -Kenyan politician Raila Odinga rejected as a “travesty” the result of the Aug. 9 presidential election he was declared to have lost to Deputy President William Ruto and warned on Tuesday of a long legal crisis facing Kenya’s democracy. His first comments on the result came after …
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HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland will slash the number of visas issued to Russians from Sept. 1, the Finnish foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday, amid a rush of Russian tourists bound for Europe. Finnish land border crossings have remained among the few entry points into Europe for Russians after a string of Western countries …
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By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian technicians at the Russian-held nuclear power plant hit by shelling work under the barrels of Russian guns and face huge pressure, but they are staying on to make sure there is no Chornobyl-style disaster, one of them said. The technician, who asked that his identity not be disclosed …
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(Refiles Aug 15 story to correct typo in paragraph 15) By Sofia Ahmed DURHAM, New Hampshire (Reuters) -Since July, Dmitry Vorobiova, 39, his partner Olena, 36, and their dog have been living with 64-year-old Michael Glover, a software engineer who had extra space in his six-bedroom house after his wife passed away. Strangers before, Glover …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Ukraine on Thursday, a U.N. spokesman said, and on Friday visit the Black Sea port of Odesa, where grain exports have resumed under a U.N.-brokered deal. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – An ammunition depot in Russian-annexed Crimea exploded on Tuesday, injuring two people and disrupting railway traffic between the peninsula and the rest of southern Ukraine and Russia, the region’s top Russian-backed official said. Footage on Russian state TV showed an electricity substation on fire near the town of Dzhankoi in Crimea and …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has “no need” to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, its defence minister said on Tuesday, describing media speculation that Moscow might deploy nuclear or chemical weapons in the conflict as “absolute lies”. “From a military point of view, there is no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine to achieve the …
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By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) -Explosions shook an ammunition depot in Russian-annexed Crimea on Tuesday, the latest such incident in a region used by Moscow as a staging post for its war in Ukraine. The Russian Defence Ministry said there were no serious casualties from the blasts in the northern Crimean village of Mayskoye, state-owned …
By Issam Abdallah and Timour Azhari YAROUN, Lebanon (Reuters) -Street-side signs in the southern Lebanese village of Yaroun, the ancestral home of the suspect in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie, bear posters of Iran’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who in 1989 issued a fatwa calling for the author’s death. The logo of Lebanon’s …
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By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Sayed Sheasha CAIRO (Reuters) -An electrical fire swept through an Egyptian Coptic Christian church during Mass on Sunday, causing a stampede and killing at least 41 people, most of them children and many suffering from smoke inhalation. The blaze started just before 9 a.m. in the Abu Sifin church in …
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