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KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian overnight drone attack on Ukraine’s capital injured at least 11 people, including two children, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Sunday for a real ceasefire lasting at least a month in the more than three-year-old war. Russian President Vladimir Putin last week declared a three-day ceasefire for May 8-10 to mark …

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By Andrea Shalal WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) -President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated photo showing himself as the pope ahead of this week’s gathering of cardinals to choose a new leader of the 1.4-billion-strong Catholic Church, and just days after he joked he would “like to be pope”. Trump, who is not a Catholic …

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ADEN (Reuters) -Yemen has appointed Salem Saleh Bin Braikas, who served as finance minister in the previous cabinet, as prime minister, the presidential council said in a statement on Saturday. Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, prime minister of Yemen’s internationally recognised government, said he had resigned after facing “many difficulties” including being unable to reshuffle the …

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By Kirsty Needham, Alasdair Pal and Christine Chen SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Anthony Albanese claimed a historic second term as prime minister on Saturday in a dramatic comeback against once-resurgent conservatives that was powered by voters’ concerns about the influence of U.S. President Donald Trump. Peter Dutton, leader of the conservative Liberal party, conceded defeat …

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ATHENS (Reuters) – A 38-year woman was killed after an explosion in northern Greek city of Thessaloniki early on Saturday, police officials said, adding that a criminal investigation is under way. “It appears that she was carrying an explosive device and planned to plant it a bank’s ATM,” a senior police official told Reuters “Something …

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(Reuters) – Russia launched a mass drone attack late on Friday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, hitting a high-rise apartment block, triggering fires and injuring 46 people, officials said. Mayor Ihor Terekhov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said there had been strikes in 12 locations in four central districts of the city, a repeated …

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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s Anthony Albanese, who claimed a historic second term as prime minister on Saturday, is a pragmatic leader who revived his campaign by offering stability against the backdrop of U.S. President Donald Trump’s volatile diplomacy.  Albanese’s centre-left Labor government had been trailing in polls to the conservative Liberal-National coalition as …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said on Saturday that nobody could guarantee that the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv would survive to see May 10 if Ukraine attacked Moscow during World War Two victory celebrations on May 9. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a three-day ceasefire in May …

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