By Reuters Staff PARIS (Reuters) – French virologist Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize for his part in discovering the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, has died, French news agency AFP reported on Thursday. Montagnier, who was 89, shared half of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine with fellow French scientist Francoise …
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By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin spent much of his marathon talks with France’s Emmanuel Macron this week on the Ukraine crisis reciting grievances that date back to the end of the Cold War, two sources in the French leader’s entourage said. In the first detailed read-out on Monday’s meeting in …
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By Jiri Skacel PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech restaurant and hotel operators saw light at the end of the tunnel on Thursday as the government cancelled rules requiring vaccination certificates to enter restaurants and events as Omicron infections started to ebb. Hotels and restaurants in Prague, a prime tourist destination, have suffered badly throughout the pandemic …
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By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) -Prince William, second in line to the British throne, on Thursday visited the United Arab Emirates at a time when the former British protectorate has faced an unprecedented though mostly foiled string of missile and drone attacks. Kensington Palace said it is the Duke of Cambridge’s first official visit to …
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By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) – A commission investigating child sexual abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church said on Thursday more than 200 alleged victims had already been in touch to share their stories since its launch a month ago. The abuse allegations have come from people born between 1933 and 2006, from various backgrounds, …
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) -A source close to Libya’s interim prime minister said early on Thursday that the premier had survived an assassination attempt overnight, but authorities made no public statement on the matter. The source said the incident happened as Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah was returning home, describing it as a clear assassination attempt. The source …
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By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgium’s leading art museum has returned a painting it held for 71 years to the great-grandchildren of a Jewish couple whose property was looted by the Nazis after they fled on the eve of World War Two. The family’s Berlin-based law firm approached the Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts (Royal …
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MOSCOW/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union said on Thursday it had delivered a single letter in response to Russia’s proposals to member states on European security on behalf of the 27 foreign ministers of the bloc. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier on Thursday said a collective response from the EU to his correspondence to …
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DAKAR (Reuters) – A French national was among six people killed during an ambush on park rangers in northern Benin on Tuesday, according to three security sources with knowledge of the attack. Five rangers and a soldier were killed and 10 others wounded when unknown militants raided the patrol in W National Park, the South …
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By Pavel Polityuk and Matthias Williams KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine criticized Russian naval exercises near its southern coast on Thursday, saying the presence of warships were part of a “hybrid war” that had made navigation in the Black Sea and Azov Sea virtually impossible. In a statement by the foreign ministry, Ukraine said Russia’s actions …
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