KHARTOUM/PORT SUDAN (Reuters) -The Islamist movement toppled in Sudan’s uprising in 2019 could support an extended period of army rule as it eyes a political comeback after deploying fighters in the country’s war, according to some of its leading members. In his first media interview in years, Ahmed Haroun, chairman of the former ruling National …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would like to maintain the limits on U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons deployments set in the 2010 New START agreement, which expires in February. “That’s not an agreement you want expiring. We’re starting to work on that,” Trump told reporters as he exited …
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(Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday toured a factory producing interceptor drones, increasingly seen as a solution to protecting Ukrainian cities from Russian air attacks, and said a goal had been set to make up to 1,000 of the weapons each day. Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly video address, said newly-appointed Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal …
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By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s top anti-corruption investigator said on Friday that he did not expect attempts to derail his agency’s work to end, despite an abrupt U-turn by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on curbing their independence that fuelled rare wartime protests. Semen Kryvonos, director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), said he …
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TIRANA (Reuters) -A wildfire injured three people and forced the evacuation of about 2,000 residents near the southern Albanian town of Delvina on Friday. “Three people have sustained burns and suffered asphyxiation,” Delvina Deputy Mayor Brunilda Meleqi told Reuters by phone. Six villages were evacuated, and a church and 10 uninhabited houses were destroyed by …
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(Reuters) -Italy have withdrawn from the rest of the World University Games in Essen, Germany, after gymnast Lorenzo Bonicelli suffered a fall during his routine, sustaining a serious neck injury that required surgery, news agency ANSA reported on Friday. Bonicelli remains in intensive care but is stable and his life is not in danger, the …
PARIS (Reuters) -French chef Alain Passard, known for his mastery of roasting techniques, has decided to drop almost all animal products from the menu at his three-Michelin-star restaurant, Arpege. The decision follows his earlier move to eliminate red meat from Arpege’s dishes in the early 2000s. Passard’s updated menu excludes meat, fish, and dairy, although …
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By Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) on Friday condemned a plan to incinerate U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million in France, a move reported by Reuters earlier this week. The supplies, including contraceptive implants and pills, have been sitting for months in a warehouse in Geel, a city in …
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(Reuters) -The European Union’s drugs regulator has recommended approval of Gilead Sciences’ lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injection, for preventing HIV infection in adults and adolescents, the drugmaker said on Friday. The backing could make it the EU’s first twice-yearly HIV prevention option to reduce the risk of sexually acquired HIV-1 infection in at-risk adults and adolescents. …
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PARIS (Reuters) -France’s highest court ruled on Friday that an arrest warrant for former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was invalid as it was issued when he was still in office, but said a new warrant can now be issued as he is no longer a sitting head of state. French investigating magistrates issued the warrant …
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