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Lithuanian documentary maker Kvedaravicius killed in Ukraine’s Mariupol

3 Apr 2022

(Reuters) -Lithuanian film director Mantas Kvedaravicius was killed on Saturday in Ukraine’s Mariupol, a city whose fate he had documented for many years, according to the Ukrainian Defence Ministry’s information agency and a colleague. “While trying to leave Mariupol, Russian occupiers killed Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius,” the agency tweeted https://twitter.com/armyinformcomua/status/1510400551019859972 on Sunday. Reuters could not …

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Russian retreat leaves trail of slain civilians in town near Kyiv

2 Apr 2022

By Simon Gardner, Zohra Bensemra and Abdelaziz Boumzar BUCHA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Dead civilians still lay scattered over the streets of the Ukrainian country town of Bucha on Saturday, three days after the invading Russian army pulled back from its abortive advance on Kyiv to the southeast. The smell of explosives still hung in the …

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Ukrainian photographer and Reuters contributor, Maksim Levin, killed covering war

2 Apr 2022

LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Maksim Levin, a photographer and videographer who was working for a Ukrainian news website and was a long-time contributor to Reuters, was killed while covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He leaves behind his wife and four children. His body was found in a village north of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on …

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Macron warns against Brexit-like election upset at mass campaign rally

2 Apr 2022

By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron warned of the risk of a Brexit-style election upset in his only campaign rally before the first round of the presidential election, in a bid to convince dispirited voters and re-energise a lacklustre campaign. A week or so before the April 10 vote, Macron finds …

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Pope implicitly criticises Putin on invasion, considers Kyiv trip

2 Apr 2022

By Philip Pullella VALLETTA (Reuters) -Pope Francis said on Saturday he was considering a trip to Kyiv and implicitly criticised Russian President Vladimir Putin over the invasion of Ukraine, saying a “potentate” was fomenting conflict for nationalist interests. Francis made the comments, first to reporters on the plane taking him to Malta for a two-day …

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Russia declares top journalist and video blogger ‘foreign agents’

2 Apr 2022

(Reuters) – Russia has declared a prominent journalist, a video blogger and six other media figures “foreign agents”, the latest in a series of such moves that critics say are designed to stifle dissent. The expanded list, published by the Justice Ministry late on Friday, included Elizaveta Osetinskaya, former editor-in-chief of several Russian business newspapers …

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Russia says cooperation in space only possible once sanctions are lifted

2 Apr 2022

(Reuters) – Russia’s space director said on Saturday that the restoration of normal ties between partners at the International Space Station (ISS) and other joint space projects would be possible only once Western sanctions against Moscow are lifted. Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, said in a social media post that the aim of the sanctions …

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Israeli forces kill three Palestinian militants in West Bank

2 Apr 2022

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli security forces killed three gunmen from the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in a shootout in the occupied West Bank on Saturday. “This is a terrorist cell that has been involved in terrorist activity against security forces recently, and was apparently on its way to another attack,” the police said. Four Israeli …

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Germany looks to buy Israeli or U.S. missile defence system

2 Apr 2022

BERLIN (Reuters) – Berlin is considering buying a missile defence system from Israel or the United States to defend against threats including Russian Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, German weekly Welt am Sonntag reported on Saturday. The Iskander missiles can reach almost all of western Europe and there is no missile shield in place to protect …

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French oppose Macron’s proposed later retirement, poll shows as election looms

2 Apr 2022

(Reuters) – A large majority of French oppose raising the legal retirement age, an opinion poll published by Les Echos newspaper showed, which could be an issue for President Emmanuel Macron, who has made that a key proposal as he seeks re-election this month. Macron has proposed pushing the legal age at which one can …

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