(Reuters) -Newcastle United said French police “indiscriminately assaulted” several of their supporters and used pepper spray, batons and shields while escorting visiting fans from the stadium after Tuesday’s 2-1 Champions League loss at Olympique de Marseille. The Premier League side said on Thursday they would formally raise their concerns with UEFA, the host club and …
By Joshua McElwee and Huseyin Hayatsever ANKARA (Reuters) -Pope Leo lamented during his first trip outside Italy as Catholic leader on Thursday that the world was seeing an unusual number of bloody conflicts, and warned that a third world war was being “fought piecemeal” with humanity’s future at risk. In his first speech given overseas …
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By Tyrone Siu, Joyce Zhou and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong police arrested the bosses of a construction company on suspicion of manslaughter on Thursday over the city’s worst fire in nearly 80 years, which killed at least 83 people with scores more listed as missing. By the early hours of Friday, firefighters …
CHISINAU, Moldova (Reuters) -Moldova’s Parliament voted on Thursday to close a Russian cultural centre, a new bid to reduce Moscow’s influence in the country a day after Russia’s ambassador was summoned over drone intrusions that Moldova said were unacceptable. Fifty-seven members of the 101-seat assembly backed the measure. Pro-European President Maia Sandu’s ruling Party of …
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By Vladimir Soldatkin BISHKEK (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that outline draft peace proposals discussed by the United States and Ukraine could become the basis of future agreements to end the conflict in Ukraine, but that if not Russia would fight on. U.S. President Donald Trump has long said he wants to …
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(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Ukrainian and U.S. delegations are to meet this week to work out a formula discussed at talks in Geneva to bring peace and provide security guarantees for Kyiv. “Our team, together with American representatives, will meet at the end of this week to continue to bring …
BERLIN (Reuters) -The International Olympic Committee on Thursday cleared one Belarusian and two Russian figure skaters to compete at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Games as neutrals, the first athletes of their countries to be invited to take part amid sanctions. Russians Petr Gumennik and Adeliia Petrosian as well as Viktoriia Safonova of Belarus are eligible …
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan praised Pope Leo’s stance on the Palestinian issue after meeting him in Ankara on Thursday, and said he hoped his first overseas visit as Catholic leader will benefit humanity at a time of tension and uncertainty. “We commend (Pope Leo’s) astute stance on the Palestinian issue,” Erdogan said in …
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By Andrew Osborn and Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian forces have surrounded the embattled Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk and control 70% of it, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, but Kyiv’s top general said Ukraine was pushing back hard and that fighting was raging in the city centre. Moscow has been trying to take full …
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By Tilman Blasshofer FRANKFURT (Reuters) -A Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in 2022 arrived in Germany on Thursday after Italy’s top court approved his handover last week, German federal prosecutors said. Explosions that destroyed the pipeline in the Baltic Sea three years ago largely severed Russian gas …
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