By Shoon Naing and Wa Lone (Reuters) – When Friday’s powerful earthquake struck central Myanmar, Htet Min Oo was performing ritual ablutions before Ramadan prayers at a mosque next to his house in Mandalay. His home collapsed along with part of the mosque, trapping half his body with the rubble of a wall that buried …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The man suspected of stabbing five people in central Amsterdam on Thursday is a 30-year old Ukrainian national from the eastern Donetsk region, local police said on Saturday. The man is suspected of having wounded five random people, using multiple knives, during a stabbing rampage near the busy Dam Square on Thursday …
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(Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese touted his Labor party’s credentials on affordable healthcare on Saturday, the first full day of campaigning for a general election expected to have cost of living as a central issue. Albanese on Friday called the election for May 3 as his centre-left Labor runs neck-and-neck in opinion polls …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund said on Friday its board completed a review that would enable disbursing $400 million to Ukraine to be channeled for budget support. Ukraine’s economy remained resilient despite challenging conditions, the IMF said in a statement. However, it added that Ukraine’s economic growth, which slowed in the …
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ANKARA (Reuters) – Swedish journalist Kaj Joakim Medin, who was in Turkey to cover protests against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s arrest, was jailed pending trial on terrorism charges, Turkey’s Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office said on Friday. Medin was detained in Istanbul as part of an investigation launched after a protest in Stockholm in January …
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By Laila Bassam and James Mackenzie BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel on Friday carried out its first major airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs in months, retaliating for an earlier rocket launch from Lebanon in the most serious test of a shaky ceasefire deal agreed in November. The strike targeted a building in the southern suburbs of the …
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By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) -Just as Ukrainian forces are losing their grip on the pocket of Russia’s Kursk region they captured last year, they have staged a little-publicised incursion into the adjacent Belgorod region, according to Russian military bloggers. Several Russian military correspondents said on Friday that Ukrainian troops were inside Belgorod and fighting battles …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States needs Greenland for international security peace, President Donald Trump said on Friday, adding that there were Chinese and Russian ships in the area that Washington could not leave to Denmark or anyone else to “take care of.” “We need Greenland. Very importantly, for international security, we have to have …
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By David Latona, Emma Pinedo and Joan Faus MADRID (Reuters) -The top court in Spain’s Catalonia region on Friday overturned Brazilian soccer player Dani Alves’ rape conviction, saying the case against him had inconsistencies and contradictions. The 41-year-old defender was convicted last year of raping a woman in the restroom of a Barcelona nightclub in …
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By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Jens-Frederik Nielsen, a 33-year-old former minister of industry and minerals, was sworn in as the youngest prime minister of Greenland on Friday to face the challenges posed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s ambitions to control the Arctic island. In his first press conference as prime minister in his hometown …
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