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By Jeff Mason and Timothy Gardner SOMERSET, Mass./WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that climate change is an emergency but stopped short of a formal declaration, announcing a modest package of executive actions and promising more aggressive efforts. Biden made the comments during a visit to Massachusetts and as a historic heat …

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ATHENS (Reuters) -Hundreds of firefighters on Wednesday battled a wildfire that raged for a second day in mountains near Athens, burning homes and cars and forcing the evacuation of at least nine settlements and a hospital. Gale-force winds and thick smoke in the Penteli region hindered fire-fighting efforts from the air and on the ground, …

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By Crispian Balmer and Angelo Amante LATINA, Italy (Reuters) – Vast swathes of land south of Rome were boggy swamps for thousands of years until a monumental drainage programme in the 1930s turned malaria-infested marshes into prime agricultural fields. Fast forward 90 years and, where water was once abundant, now it is growing scarce as …

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PRAGUE (Reuters) – As a heat wave rolls over Europe, bringing temperatures as high as 33 Celsius (91 Fahrenheit) in Prague on Tuesday, the ICE PUB in downtown Prague offers a brief escape to Arctic conditions. The bar, just a minute’s walk from the capital’s renowned Charles Bridge, serves vodka-based cocktails in cups made of …

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ATHENS (Reuters) – A Greek wildfire fuelled by gale-force winds raged on the mountainous area of Penteli near Athens on Tuesday, damaging homes and prompting authorities to order the evacuation of at least four areas and a hospital. Heavy clouds of smoke were rising into the sky billowing over Mount Penteli where the fire broke …

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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden, with flowers in hand, and first lady Jill Biden welcomed Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, to the White House on Tuesday for a visit ahead of her address to Congress on Wednesday. Zelenska, the wife of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, embraced Jill Biden and received the …

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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal prosecutor told jurors on Tuesday at Steve Bannon’s criminal trial that the prominent former presidential adviser to Donald Trump decided he was “above the law” in defying a subpoena from the congressional committee investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol. The prosecution and defense delivered opening …

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By Nandita Bose and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia is laying the groundwork for the annexation of Ukrainian territory and is installing illegitimate proxy officials in areas there under its control as it seeks to exert total control over its gains in the east, the White House said on Tuesday. Unveiling what he said …

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