By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) -Eleven jailed Russian dissidents have written to world leaders appealing for a mass release of Russian political prisoners and Ukrainian civilians held by Russia – some 10,000 people in total, they say – as part of any peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv. In the letter, published via Reuters, the …
By Joshua McElwee CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (Reuters) -Pope Leo will revive a centuries-old tradition on Sunday by taking a holiday at Castel Gandolfo, where residents of the lakeside town hope for a tourism boost after the late Pope Francis shunned taking a summer break. Leo, elected pope on May 8 after the death of Francis, …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Liverpool Football Club said it was devastated by the death of its player Portuguese forward Diogo Jota, who was killed in a car crash near Zamora in northwestern Spain with his brother. “Liverpool Football Club are devastated by the tragic passing of Diogo Jota,” the club wrote on social media on Thursday. (Reporting …
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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -A new rite published by the Vatican on Thursday will allow priests to celebrate a Mass to exhort Catholics to exercise care for the Earth, in the latest push by the 1.4-billion-member global Church to address global climate change. For centuries, Catholic priests have been able to celebrate special …
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ROME (Reuters) -Russia could have the ability to pose a military threat to NATO territory within five years, Italy’s Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said on Thursday. He was addressing lawmakers on the outcome of a NATO summit last week when the military alliance agreed to increase spending on defence and security. “Allies shared concerns about …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt wants to negotiate a direct agreement with the Taliban on receiving Afghan migrants deported from Germany, he told Focus magazine in an interview. In August, Germany resumed flying convicted criminals of Afghan nationality to their home country, after pausing deportations following the Taliban’s takeover in August 2021, with …
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(Reuters) -A woman in her 70s was killed, and two other people injured, by falling debris from a destroyed Ukrainian drone in Russia’s southwestern region of Lipetsk, regional governor Igor Artamonov said early on Thursday. The debris fell on a residential building in the district surrounding the regional capital, killing the woman and injuring two …
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PARIS (Reuters) -France reaffirmed on Wednesday its condemnation of Iran’s detention of two French citizens, who have been held for three years. The pair, Cecile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris, are being held in a “totally arbitrary manner,” the French foreign ministry said in a statement following a report from AFP that the two …
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Alexander Cornwell CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Hamas said on Wednesday it was studying what U.S. President Donald Trump called a “final” ceasefire proposal for Gaza but that Israel must pull out of the enclave, and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas would be eliminated. Trump said on Tuesday Israel had agreed to the …
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By Mike Stone and Max Hunder WASHINGTON/KYIV (Reuters) -A decision by Washington to halt some shipments of critical weapons to Ukraine prompted warnings by Kyiv on Wednesday that the move would weaken its ability to defend against intensifying airstrikes and battlefield advances. Ukraine said it had called in the acting U.S. envoy to Kyiv to …
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