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Beyond pizza and pasta: Italy’s culinary heritage awaits UNESCO nod

9 Dec 2025 9 Dec 2025

ROME, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Italian cooking, already celebrated around the world, is poised for a new accolade: formal recognition as a cultural treasure from the United Nations’ cultural agency, UNESCO. A preliminary UNESCO assessment has cleared Italian cuisine to be added to UNESCO’s ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’ lists and a final decision is expected on …

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Russian military transport plane crashes northeast of Moscow with seven on board, state TV says

9 Dec 2025 9 Dec 2025

MOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters) – A Russian An-22 military transport aircraft has crashed in the Ivanovo region northeast of Moscow with seven crew members on board, the Vesti state television channel reported on Tuesday. (Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Lucy PapachristouEditing by Andrew Osborn)

2025 will be world’s second or third-hottest year on record, EU scientists say

9 Dec 2025 9 Dec 2025

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS, Dec 9 (Reuters) – This year is set to be the world’s second or third-warmest on record, potentially surpassed only by 2024’S record-breaking heat, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Tuesday. The data is the latest from C3S following last month’s COP30 climate summit, where governments failed …

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Nobels are a family affair as chefs cook up lavish banquet

9 Dec 2025 9 Dec 2025

By Greta Rosen Fondahn STOCKHOLM, Dec 9 (Reuters) – In a bustling kitchen at Stockholm’s city hall, chefs have gathered to prepare an intricate dinner with a secret menu – and a family twist – for the scientists and royalty converging at the Nobel Prize banquet in Sweden this week. More than forty chefs are …

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Haven cafe shuts as Russian attacks turn Ukraine’s Kherson into ghost town

9 Dec 2025 9 Dec 2025

KHERSON, Ukraine, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Oleksiy Melnychenko, chief barista and manager of a cafe in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, held out as long as he could, serving doses of caffeine and normality to residents struggling amid Russian artillery and air attacks. Today, the shrapnel-marked establishment stands empty after he finally packed up …

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Russia’s top general says army is advancing in Ukraine and targeting Myrnohrad

9 Dec 2025 9 Dec 2025

MOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Russia’s top general, Valery Gerasimov, said on Tuesday that Moscow’s forces were advancing along the entire front line in Ukraine and were targeting surrounded Ukrainian troops in the town of Myrnohrad. In a command post meeting with officers of the Centre Grouping which is fighting in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, Gerasimov …

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Russia proposes medal for recovering bodies in war zones

9 Dec 2025 9 Dec 2025

Dec 8 (Reuters) – Russia’s defence ministry has proposed a medal for servicemen and civilians who helped to recover bodies from combat zones – a rare official indication that Russia is struggling to account for the missing nearly four years into the war with Ukraine. The draft document, published on Monday in an official database …

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Russian drone attacks cut power in Sumy in northern Ukraine

9 Dec 2025 9 Dec 2025

Dec 9 (Reuters) – Russian drones attacked the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy late on Monday in the second major strike on the city in 24 hours, triggering a power outage, the regional governor said. “In the space of half an hour, the Russians launched more than 10 drone strikes on the city,” Governor Oleh …

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Ukraine to share revised peace plan with US on Tuesday, Zelenskiy says

9 Dec 2025 9 Dec 2025

By Olena Harmash and Elizabeth Piper LONDON/KYIV, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Ukraine will share a revised peace plan with the U.S. on Tuesday that is aimed at ending Russia’s war, after talks in London between President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the leaders of France, Germany and Britain. As the war nears its four-year mark, Kyiv, under …

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EU leaders say Ukraine’s sovereignty, long-term security crucial in peace talks

9 Dec 2025 9 Dec 2025

BRUSSELS, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s sovereignty must be respected and its security guaranteed for the long term in any peace deal with Russia, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa said on Monday. The two EU institution chiefs issued the same message in social media posts after a …

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