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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden has read a letter from WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia for more than four months, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday. Griner wrote a letter, sent by her representatives to the White House, appealing to Biden for help to bring her …

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By Guglielmo Mangiapane and Roberto Mignucci CANAZEI, Italy (Reuters) – Rescue teams resumed the search on Tuesday for 13 climbers who were missing after part of a glacier gave way high in the Italian Alps on Sunday, killing at least seven people. Hopes of finding survivors were fading more than 36 hours after a disaster …

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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Two Philadelphia police officers were shot near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway late on Monday as thousands of people celebrated a Fourth of July concert and fireworks show with the crowd scattering in panic when shots were fired. The shooting came hours after a gunman on a rooftop opened fire on …

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(Reuters) – Ukraine is holding talks with Turkey and the United Nations to secure guarantees for grain exports from Ukrainian ports, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday. “Talks are in fact going on now with Turkey and the U.N. (and) our representatives who are responsible for the security of the grain that leaves our ports,” …

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ROME (Reuters) – Italy on Monday declared a state of emergency for areas surrounding the river Po, which accounts for roughly a third of the country’s agricultural production and is suffering its worst drought for 70 years. The government decree will allow authorities to cut through red tape and take action immediately if they think …

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SARAJEVO (Reuters) – The German government has suspended 120 million euros ($125 million) worth of infrastructure projects in Bosnia’s Serb region over its leaders secessionist policies, international peace envoy Christian Schmidt said on Monday. Schmidt said in an interview for regional N1 television that he could not rule out that Germany might follow the United …

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ABUJA (Reuters) – The European Union (EU) and its development finance institutions will provide Nigeria with 1.29 billion euros ($1.3 billion) to help Africa’s most populous country diversify its economy away from oil, a document from the bloc showed on Monday. Nigeria has been trying to broaden its economy and exports outside the oil sector, …

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By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – Though Russia can claim a prize with its capture of Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region, it is far from Moscow’s ambitious early war aims and does not deal Kyiv a decisive military blow. The Russian assault will now switch its focus to the rest of the Donbas industrial heartland, but …

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