By Olivia Le Poidevin and Dave Graham GENEVA (Reuters) -A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock that buried most of a mountain village that had been evacuated due to the risk of a rockslide, authorities said. One person is currently …
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By Steve Holland, Guy Faulconbridge and Max Hunder WASHINGTON/MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump again expressed frustration on Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the intensifying Ukraine conflict, a day after warning that Putin was “playing with fire” by resisting ceasefire talks while escalating drone and missile attacks. But Trump also told reporters in …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -Russia’s Vice Minister of Internal Affairs Vitaly Shulika and Ri Song Chol, North Korea’s vice minister of public security, held a meeting to discuss expanding cooperation and exchange, state media reported on Thursday. The meeting was held on Wednesday in Pyongyang, KCNA reported. Officials from North Korea’s Ministry of Public Security and Russia’s …
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(Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday about the preparation of “concrete proposals” for a new round of direct talks with Ukraine, the Russian foreign ministry said. A statement on the ministry’s website said Lavrov told Rubio about the implementation of agreements between the Russian …
WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week not to take actions that could disrupt nuclear talks with Iran. “I told him this would be inappropriate to do right now because we’re very close to a solution now,” Trump told reporters gathered in the Oval …
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By Riham Alkousaa (Reuters) -A German court is due to decide on Wednesday whether a lawsuit brought by a Peruvian farmer against German energy giant RWE can continue, in a landmark case that is setting a precedent for future climate change litigation. In a case that began a decade ago, farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya argues …
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By Juliette Jabkhiro VANNES, France (Reuters) – A retired French surgeon who sexually abused hundreds of young patients, many of them children, over more than two decades received a 20-year jail sentence on Wednesday, in France’s worst ever child abuse case to go to trial. Joel Le Scouarnec stood accused of aggravated rape or sexual …
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ROME (Reuters) -Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will host French President Emmanuel Macron for talks in Rome on June 3, Meloni’s office said on Wednesday. “The main topics of the bilateral, European and international agenda will be at the centre of the talks,” Meloni’s office said in a statement, without elaborating further. (Reporting by Giuseppe …
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By Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) – NATO will ask Germany to provide seven more brigades, or some 40,000 troops, for the alliance’s defence, three sources told Reuters, under new targets for weapons and troop numbers that its members’ defence ministers are set to agree on next week. The alliance is dramatically increasing its military capability …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday expressed hesitation toward imposing new sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine, saying he did not want the penalties to interfere with getting a ceasefire. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said on sanctions: “If I think I’m close to getting a deal, …
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