By Lars Hagberg and Kyaw Soe Oo OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canadian police on Sunday smashed the windows of vehicles abandoned in the downtown core of the capital to search and tow them away, and city workers cleaned up trash after two days of tense standoffs and 191 arrests ended a three-week occupation of Ottawa. Demonstrators had …
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By Lefteris Papadimas CORFU, Greece (Reuters) -Firefighters battling for a third day a blaze on a ferry sailing from Greece to Italy recovered on Sunday the body of a passenger listed as missing, Greek authorities said. It is the first reported fatality after rescuers managed to take at least 281 out of 292 passengers and …
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DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Multiple explosions were heard on Sunday in the centre of the separatist-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, a Reuters witness said. A loudspeaker in the area asked citizens to exercise caution. The origin of the explosions was not clear. (Reporting by Polina Nikolskaya; writing by Polina Devitt; editing by Mark …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine on Sunday suspended operations at one of the seven checkpoints to territory in the eastern Donbass region controlled by Russia-backed separatists, due to heavy shelling, the Ukrainian military said. Incidents of shelling across the line dividing government forces and separatists increased sharply last week, in what the Ukrainian government called a …
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(Reuters) – British boxer Amir Khan suggested that he is considering retirement from the sport after suffering a comprehensive defeat with a sixth-round TKO at the hands of Kell Brook on Saturday. The 35-year-old Khan was outclassed by compatriot Brook from start to finish, and looked to be in dire straits before the referee stepped …
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By Tom Balmforth and Maria Kiselyova MOSCOW (Reuters) – Pro-Russian separatists said on Saturday they had uncovered a plan by Kyiv to seize territory they control in eastern Ukraine by force, and paraded a man they said was a Ukrainian spy. Authorities in the Ukrainian capital quickly dismissed the alleged plan as a fake and …
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By Steve Scherer and Carlos Osorio OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canadian police on Saturday used pepper spray and stun grenades, and made dozens of arrests as they cleared demonstrators from the street in front of parliament, where they have been camping for more than three weeks to protest against pandemic restrictions. A total of 170 arrests have …
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By Polina Nikolskaya and Tom Balmforth DONETSK, Ukraine/MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s strategic nuclear forces held exercises overseen by President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, and Washington accused Russian troops massed near Ukraine’s border of advancing and being “poised to strike”. With Western fears of war rising, the White House said U.S President Joe Biden’s national security team …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Two regions in eastern Ukraine where government and separatist forces have been fighting since 2014 were hit by more than 1,400 explosions on Friday, monitors for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said, pointing to a surge in shelling. The two Russian-backed, self-proclaimed republics in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk …
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By Lefteris Papadimas and Angelo Amante CORFU, Greece (Reuters) -Twelve people are still missing after a blaze swept through a ferry sailing from Greece to Italy early on Friday, Greek authorities said on Saturday, as firefighters battled for a second day to control the fire and crews towed the vessel closer to the shore. Reuters …
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