By Natalia Zinets and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine pleaded to Western countries for faster deliveries of weapons as better-armed Russian forces pounded the east of the country, and for humanitarian support to combat growing outbreaks of deadly diseases. In Sievierodonetsk, the small city that has become the focus of Russia’s advance in eastern …
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(Removes second reference to full names of Phillips and Pereira in paragraph 5) By Jake Spring ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian search teams have found “apparently human” remains in a river near where a British journalist was last seen in the Amazon rainforest, federal police said on Friday, in what may be the biggest …
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BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian search teams found “apparently human” organic material in a river where British journalist Dom Phillips disappeared on Sunday along with a Brazilian indigenous tribes expert, federal police said on Friday. Police also said in a statement that they had collected genetic material from the missing journalist and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will drop from Sunday a 17-month-old requirement that people arriving in the country by air test negative for COVID-19, an official said, a move that follows intense lobbying by the airlines and the travel industry. A formal announcement will be made later on Friday. The step …
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(Refiles to give PM’s full name in lede parapraph) ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday the European Union should offer the integration of all six nations of the Western Balkans into the EU by 2033 in what he called a “bold but necessary step”. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has lent …
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By Kanishka Singh and Dan Whitcomb WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A gunman opened fire on his co-workers at a manufacturing facility in northern Maryland on Thursday, killing at least three people and critically wounding a fourth before being taken into custody after a shootout with police. The 23-year-old assailant, who was not identified by police, was wounded …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The number of Syrians who became naturalised German citizens was three times higher in 2021 than the year before, as many of those who fled between 2014 and 2016 fulfilled eligibility criteria, data showed on Friday. The overall number of foreigners who became naturalised Germans grew 20% in 2021, reaching roughly 131,600, …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden will look to make constructive progress in talks with Turkey on Ankara’s objections over the Nordic country’s application to join the NATO defensive alliance, Foreign Minister Ann Linde said on Friday. Finland and Sweden applied to join NATO last month in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but face opposition from Turkey, …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Forty-four percent of French people polled expect President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist bloc to win this month’s parliamentary election, according to an Ifop-Fiducial poll for Sud Radio, albeit amid a high abstention rate. The poll, which surveyed 913 people from June 7-8, added 54% said they would abstain. Twenty-five percent expected the left-wing …
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By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The congressional committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat presented testimony on Thursday showing that close allies – even his daughter – rejected his false claims of voting fraud. The U.S. House of Representatives select …
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