LONDON (Reuters) -King Charles and his wife Queen Camilla’s state visit to the Vatican has been postponed because of medical advice that suggested Pope Francis would benefit from an extended period of rest, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday. The British royals were due to travel out to the Vatican on April 7 and meet Pope …
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By Humeyra Pamuk and Maya Gebeily WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) – The United States has handed Syria a list of conditions that it wants Damascus to fulfill in exchange for partial sanctions relief, six people familiar with the matter told Reuters, including ensuring foreigners are not in senior governing roles. U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Levant …
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By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) -French movie star Gerard Depardieu admitted in court on Tuesday that he had grabbed by the hips a woman who has accused him of sexual assault, but denied it was assault, attributing any crude comments he had made to being in a bad mood. The plaintiff, Amelie K, a set …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian state railways Ukrzaliznytsia, the country’s largest cargo carrier, said on Tuesday that a large-scale cyber attack had also hit its online freight services. An outage was first reported on Sunday when the rail company notified passengers about a failure in its IT system and told them to buy tickets on site …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A fire at an oil depot in southern Russia’s Krasnodar region after a suspected Ukrainian drone attack has been extinguished nearly a week after it started, region governor Veniamin Kondratiev said on Tuesday. The Kavkazskaya depot is located only a few kilometres from the Kropotkinskaya pumping station of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium …
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VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria’s top court on Tuesday sentenced former Austrian Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser to four years in prison, dismissing his appeal against his 2020 conviction on corruption charges. Austria’s Supreme Court upheld allegations of corruption raised against Grasser but halved the original sentence of eight years handed down against the former political star. That …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British security ties with the United States are as strong as ever, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said on Tuesday in response to the mistaken disclosure to a journalist of a conversation about U.S. military action in Yemen. Rayner said it was up to the United States to clarify mistakenly shared remarks between …
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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis came so close to death at one point during his 38-day fight in hospital against pneumonia that his doctors considered ending treatment so he could die in peace, the head of the pope’s medical team said. After a breathing crisis on February 28 that involved Francis nearly …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe must acquire all means to defend itself against military aggression, European Council President Antonio Costa said on Tuesday, adding that peace without defence is an illusion. “If Russia considers that Ukraine’s borders are just a line on a map, why should it respect any other country’s borders?”, he said at a …
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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -After 38 days in hospital battling double pneumonia almost entirely out of sight, Pope Francis made his first public appearance on Sunday since February 14 and returned to the Vatican. But with his doctors prescribing the 88-year-old pontiff another two months of rest to allow his ageing body to …
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