By Rinat Harash JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Pressed against a wall in a back corridor of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a stone slab bore testimony only to the graffiti etched on it by multitudes of pilgrims through the ages. But the 2.5 x 1.5 metre stone turned out to be far more precious when …
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MILAN (Reuters) – Vaccines against COVID-19 have roughly halved the death toll from the disease in Italy, preventing some 150,000 fatalities and 8 million cases last year, the National Health Institute (ISS) estimated on Wednesday. The ISS study, which ran from the start of 2021 until the end of January this year, concluded the inoculation …
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By Maria Caspani, Jonathan Allen and Rami Ayyub NEW YORK (Reuters) -Police mounted an intense manhunt on Tuesday for a gunman who set off two smoke bombs and opened fire in a New York subway car, injuring more than 20 people in a morning rush-hour attack that prompted new calls to fight violence in the …
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JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir ordered military officers loyal to his vice president, Riek Machar, to be officially integrated into a unified command of the army, state media said on Tuesday, a central pillar of the peace process. Kiir and Machar’s forces signed a peace agreement in 2018 that ended five years …
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By Maximilian Heath BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine truck owners extended a grains transport strike on Tuesday, bringing grains haulage traffic to a virtual halt at the peak of the harvest season in the world’s leading exporter of processed soy and number two shipper of corn. The protest, demanding higher freight rates as inflation spirals, …
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chilean President Gabriel Boric’s administration on Tuesday sent a bill that limits pension withdrawals to debt payments, hours before a congressional committee was set to vote on another proposal allowing a 10% withdrawal of pension funds. Both proposals permit workers to withdraw pension funds before retirement to help deal with economic fallout …
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(Reuters) – Ukraine’s security services on Tuesday said they had arrested pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, who is President Vladimir Putin’s closest and most influential ally in Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had earlier published a photo of a tired-looking and handcuffed Medvedchuk, who says Putin is godfather to his daughter. In February, Kyiv said Medvedchuk, the …
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By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday peace talks with Ukraine had hit a dead end, using his first public comments on the conflict in more than a week to vow his troops would win and to goad the West for failing to bring Moscow to heel. Addressing the war in …
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is concerned by the recent unconfirmed report of chemical weapons use in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol, an OPCW spokesperson said on Tuesday. “The (…) OPCW is monitoring closely the situation in Ukraine,” the spokesperson added. Earlier in the day, a senior …
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BRASILIA (Reuters) – Former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday promised Brazil’s indigenous people that he would stop illegal mining on their reservations and recognize their land claims if he wins the presidential election in October. Lula visited a protest camp in Brasilia where several thousands members of 200 tribes have gathered …
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