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PARIS (Reuters) – The alleged killings in the Ukrainian town of Bucha were “very probably war crimes,” said French President Emmanuel Macron in an interview published on Wednesday. “It was very probably a war crime that was committed there,” said Macron. Ukraine and many Western countries accuse Russia of having killed several hundred civilians during …

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By Devjyot Ghoshal and Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will not resign, a minister said on Wednesday, despite demonstrations against his handling of the country’s worst economic crisis in decades and as doctors held street protests over a shortage of medicine. Rajapaksa, governing the country since 2019 with other family members …

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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned “the massacre of Bucha” and held up a Ukrainian flag sent to him from the town where tied bodies shot at close range, a mass grave and other signs of executions were found. “Recent news from the war in Ukraine, instead of bringing relief …

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By Marcelo Rochabrun LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian President Pedro Castillo on Tuesday afternoon lifted a curfew order following widespread defiance on the streets, as protests spiraled against rising fuel and fertilizer prices triggered by the Ukraine conflict. “I must announce that from this moment on we are going to cancel the curfew order,” Castillo said …

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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s second most senior leader, Chief Secretary John Lee, resigned on Wednesday, the city said, amid media reports the former security chief during months of pro-democracy protests in 2019 will attempt to become city leader in a May vote. Lee, 64, a former deputy commissioner of police, was promoted to …

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Shanghai on Wednesday made some concessions on a widely unpopular child separation COVID policy, in a nod to growing public frustration as it extends a citywide lockdown that has left some residents struggling to buy food. The lockdown of China’s most populous city, which started in parts of Shanghai 10 days ago and …

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(This story contains graphic descriptions) By Simon Gardner BUCHA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Sobbing uncontrollably, Serhii Lahovskyi nuzzles against the shrouded corpse of his closest childhood friend, who disappeared when Russian troops occupied the Ukrainian town of Bucha near Kyiv and was found shot through the head and dumped in a stairwell.    The labourer’s eyes …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is providing Ukraine with life-saving protective equipment that could be deployed if Russia were to use chemical and biological weapons, a Biden administration official said on Tuesday. The equipment and supplies, which were requested by Kiev, are being delivered on a rolling basis and some has already been delivered, …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new round of U.S. sanctions that will be imposed on Russia will in part be a response to killings in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Tuesday. The sanctions “will target Russian government officials, their family members, Russian owned financial institutions, also state owned …

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