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By Alan Baldwin MONTREAL (Reuters) – Mercedes said a makeshift modification to address their car’s ‘porpoising’ problem was not effective and would not be used in Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix. Rivals had questioned the struggling champions use of a second stiffening stay to the floor of their car, with Alpine team boss Otmar Szafnauer suggesting …

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BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian federal police on Saturday said they had arrested a third suspect in the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest nearly two weeks ago. Jeferson da Silva Lima surrendered himself at a police station in Atalaia do Norte in the remote Javari Valley …

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By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has paid another visit to troops on the front lines of Ukraine’s war against Russia, praising soldiers holding forward positions as brave and hard-working and vowing the country will prevail. A video posted to Zelenskiy’s official Telegram account on Saturday showed the president in his trademark …

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ZARAGOZA, Spain (Reuters) – Firefighters battled to bring raging wildfires under control in Spain on Saturday and people sought relief with fans, shade and plenty of water as an unseasonable heatwave pushed temperatures close to record highs. Spain was heading towards its hottest early summer temperatures in decades, with forecasts of between 40-42 degrees Celsius …

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By Justyna Pawlak WARSAW (Reuters) – An outpouring of public support across Europe for millions of people fleeing war in Ukraine may point to a shift in attitudes towards refugees as the number of those displaced by conflict or persecution globally has surpassed 100 million, the UNHCR said. “We are very encouraged,” Gillian Triggs, the …

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By Robin Emmott and Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s executive recommended on Friday that Ukraine and Moldova become candidates for membership, a milestone in their potential path from ex-Soviet republics to developed economies in the world’s largest trading bloc. If the European Commission’s decision is ratified as expected next week at a …

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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – France’s president said on Friday he saw little chance of an agreement with Russia for now to get grain out the Ukrainian port of Odesa, but said there were talks to regenerate rail routes linking Odesa to the Danube in Romania as an alternative. Ukraine’s inability to use its …

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