By Ryan Patrick Jones and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States said on Wednesday it was imposing sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, who has been very critical of U.S. ally Israel’s war in Gaza. “Today I am imposing sanctions on UN Human …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romania has banned Ion Ceban, the mayor of neighbouring Moldova’s capital, Chisinau, from entering the country in a move that extends to the entire Schengen visa-free travel area, Romania’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Moldova, located between Ukraine and Romania, is a geopolitical battleground between Russia and the West, with a Romanian-speaking majority …
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By Anna Peverieri (Reuters) -Solar power was the European Union’s largest source of electricity for the first time in June, overtaking nuclear and wind while coal’s contribution fell to an all-time low, data from energy think tank Ember showed on Thursday. Solar generated 22.1% of the EU’s electricity last month, up from 18.9%% a year …
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(Reuters) -A five-year-old boy died of burns sustained in a Ukrainian drone strike on a beach in the Russian city of Kursk, the regional governor said, raising the death toll in the attack to four. Alexander Khinshtein, writing on Telegram on Wednesday, said the boy had suffered burns over 30% of his body in the …
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(Reuters) -Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, who also served as Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s special representative to the Middle East and to Africa, was relieved of his duties on Wednesday at his own request, TASS news agency said. Bogdanov’s departure, announced in a presidential decree, took place entirely at his own request for personal …
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ROME (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he had held a “substantive” conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, in Rome shortly after Trump pledged to send more defensive weapons to Kyiv. “We discussed weapons supplies and strengthening air defense. Given the increase in Russian attacks, this remains one of …
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MARSEILLE (Reuters) -A wildfire that reached the northwestern outskirts of France’s second-biggest city of Marseille was under control on Wednesday, but not over, officials said, warning that it could flare up again. Officials told residents they were no longer in lockdown, though some who were evacuated were likely to find their homes in ashes. Ten …
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By Sarah N. Lynch and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s Justice Department scrambled on Tuesday to answer questions after its leadership concluded there was no evidence to support a number of long-held conspiracy theories about the death of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged clientele. Conservative influencers from Laura Loomer to …
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By Sachin Ravikumar and Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed on the need for new solutions to the problem of illegal migration on Wednesday, Starmer’s office said, laying the groundwork for a bilateral summit on Thursday. The two met for lunch during what is the …
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By Daria Sito-Sucic SREBRENIK, Bosnia (Reuters) -When the jaw bones of Mevlida Omerovic’s husband were found in a mass grave in eastern Bosnia 12 years ago, she did not bury them in the hope that more of his remains would emerge. None did. So, on the 30th anniversary of his death in the July 1995 …
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