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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek firefighters battled wildfires on the island of Lesbos for a second day on Sunday as well as new fires in the western Peloponnese and in northern Greece, evacuating nearby settlements as a heatwave set in. A wildfire that started in mountainous forests on Lesbos in the Aegean Sea near Turkey on …

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By Octav Ganea and Luiza Ilie DRAGANESTI-VLASCA, Romania (Reuters) – Iulia Coleasa, an 81-year-old who relies on her small plot for food, travelled 15 km in searing heat to a monastery in southern Romania on Sunday to join a service praying for rain. Temperatures have spiked above 40 Celsius (104 F) in the country this …

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ROME (Reuters) – Almost 700 migrants, including five dead bodies, were rescued on Saturday off the southern coast of Italy, a coastguard statement said on Sunday, as flows of migrants crossing the Mediterranean increase during favourable sea conditions. Most of the 674 migrants were found on a fishing boat 124 miles off the coast of …

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By Alasdair Pal and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO (Reuters) -A rights group documenting alleged abuses in Sri Lanka has filed a criminal complaint with Singapore’s attorney general, seeking the arrest of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for his role in the South Asian nation’s decades-long civil war. The International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) said Rajapaksa committed …

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(Reuters) – A senior U.S. Congressional delegation met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Saturday and promised to try to ensure continued support in the war against Russia. The delegation – which included Representative Adam Smith, chair of the House Armed Services Committee – is the latest in a series of high-profile American visitors …

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ATHENS (Reuters) -A wildfire that started in mountainous forests on the Greek island of Lesbos near Turkey on Saturday burned properties at the beach resort of Vatera as more aircraft joined firefighting efforts. Authorities earlier ordered the evacuation of the Aegean sea resort as the wildfire approached dangerously close, fanned by strong winds. Thick billowing …

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(Corrects slug) (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces are gradually moving into the eastern Kherson region, which was taken over by Russia at the start of the war, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video address on Saturday. “The occupiers have been trying to establish a foothold there … but how did it help them? The Ukrainian …

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By David Ljunggren (Reuters) – Ukraine’s defence ministry on Saturday urged citizens in a key area seized by Russia to reveal where Moscow’s troops were living and who among the local population was collaborating with the occupying authorities. The statement by the ministry’s defence intelligence directorate was aimed at people in and around the southern …

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KYIV (Reuters) – A Russian strike on Ukraine’s Odesa port on Saturday has threatened a deal to aid grain exports and ease a global food crisis. Following is global reaction: UNITED NATIONS SPOKESPERSON “The Secretary-General (Antonio Guterres) unequivocally condemns reported strikes today in the Ukrainian port of Odesa. Yesterday, all parties made clear commitments on …

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