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Ukrainian drones damage hospital, homes in Russia’s Kursk, official says

30 May 2025

(Reuters) -Ukrainian drones launched a night-time attack on Russia’s western Kursk region, damaging a hospital and apartment buildings and injuring at least one person, the regional governor said early on Friday. Across the border in Ukraine’s Sumy region, the regional governor reported fresh fighting in villages near the border where Russia has been seizing territory. …

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‘I lost everything’: Swiss residents in shock after glacier debris buries village

30 May 2025

By Dave Graham WILER, Switzerland (Reuters) – Residents struggled on Thursday to absorb the scale of devastation caused by a huge slab of glacier that buried most of their picturesque Swiss village, in what scientists suspect is a dramatic example of climate change’s impact on the Alps. A deluge of millions of cubic meters of …

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Russia’s Putin praises Abe, says late Japanese PM wanted peace treaty

29 May 2025

(Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday, saying he knew the slain Japanese leader had dreamt of finally concluding a post-World War Two peace treaty. No treaty was ever signed as the two countries could not resolve a dispute over the then-Soviet Union’s seizure at the end …

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Second Georgian opposition politician detained, his party says

29 May 2025

(Reuters) -Police in Georgia have detained an opposition politician, his party said on Thursday, the second such detention in a little more than a week of figures denouncing government policies bringing the country closer to Russia. The Coalition for Change, Georgia’s largest opposition group, said one of its leaders, Nika Melia, had been detained. News …

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Deadly break in at UN warehouse as aid trickles into Gaza

29 May 2025

By Nidal al-Mughrabi, James Mackenzie and Michelle Nichols CAIRO/JERUSALEM/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -A United Nations warehouse in war-torn Gaza was broken into by “hordes of hungry people” on Wednesday as aid trickles into the Palestinian enclave on the brink of famine and the United States readies new terms for a possible truce between Israel and Hamas. …

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Zelenskiy accuses Russia of ‘another deception’ by holding back peace memorandum

29 May 2025

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Russia was engaging in “yet another deception” by failing to hand over its peace settlement proposal ahead of a potential meeting between Moscow and Kyiv. “Even the so-called ‘memorandum’ they promised and seemingly prepared for more than a week has still not been seen by …

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Mistrial ruled in case against Diego Maradona’s medical team, lawyers say

29 May 2025

By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -The homicide case against Diego Maradona’s medical team was declared a mistrial, their lawyers said on Thursday. The soccer star’s 2020 death from heart failure while recovering from surgery shook his home nation of Argentina, while fans worldwide were stunned. Seven members of his medical team were charged with …

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Portugal’s president invites caretaker PM to lead new government

29 May 2025

LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal’s president named Luis Montenegro, head of the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) that won a snap national election on May 18, as the prime minister on Thursday and invited him to form his second minority government, the presidency said. The AD won 91 seats in the 230-seat parliament – 11 more than in …

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