BERLIN (Reuters) -Four people were killed and 30 injured when a busy regional train derailed near a popular ski resort and hiking destination in southern Germany on Friday, police said. Fifteen of the injured were receiving hospital treatment, a police spokesperson said, adding that 60 people had been on board at the time of the …
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(Reuters) – Ukraine’s intelligence services are in communication with the captured Azovstal steelworks fighters and Kyiv is doing all it can to ensure their release, Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskiy said late on Friday. Uncertainty has surrounded the fate of hundreds of fighters taken into Russian custody in mid-May after being ordered to stand down. …
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(Reuters) -Russia’s Foreign Ministry said it was summoning the heads of U.S. media outlets in Moscow to a meeting next Monday to notify them of tough measures in response to U.S. restrictions against Russian media. “If the work of the Russian media – operators and journalists – is not normalized in the United States, the …
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By Karolos Grohmann PARIS (Reuters) -A protester interrupted the French Open men’s semi-final between Marin Cilic of Croatia and Norwegian Casper Ruud for 15 minutes on Friday when she jumped onto Court Philippe Chatrier and tied herself to the net. The woman, wearing a t-shirt that read ‘we have 1028 days left’ tied herself to …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths “had frank and constructive discussions” with Russian officials in Moscow on facilitating exports of Ukraine grain from Black Sea ports, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday. Griffiths met with Russian foreign affairs and defense officials on Thursday and Friday, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. …
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By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) -Senegal’s President Macky Sall said Russia’s Vladimir Putin had told him on Friday he was ready to enable the export of Ukrainian grain to ease a global food crisis that is hitting Africa especially hard. “President #Putin has expressed to us his willingness to facilitate the export of Ukrainian cereals,” …
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By Holger Hansen BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, on Friday approved creation of the 100 billion euro ($107.2 billion) special defence fund that Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The money is destined to top up the regular defence budget of around 50 billion euros over …
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By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel told the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Friday that it would prefer a diplomatic resolution to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear programme but could take independent action, reiterating a long-standing veiled threat to launch preemptive war. The warning to visiting International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi followed calls by …
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(Reuters) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its 100th day on Friday with no end in sight to the fighting that has killed thousands, uprooted millions and reduced cities to rubble. After abandoning its assault on the capital, Kyiv, Russia is pressing on in the east and south in the face of mounting sanctions and …
LONDON (Reuters) – Euro zone business growth was robust in May but is at risk of a slowdown from soaring living costs, supply chain disruptions and uncertainty surrounding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a survey showed. S&P Global’s final composite Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), seen as a good gauge of economic health, fell to 54.8 in …
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