By Ossian Shine, Karolos Grohmann and Julien Pretot PYLOS, Greece (Reuters) -Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the organisation’s first female and first African president in its 130-year history. The Zimbabwean swimming great, already a towering figure in Olympic circles, emerged victorious to replace Thomas Bach, securing …
PARIS (Reuters) -A French scientist has been denied entry into the United States, apparently because the scientist had expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy, the French Education Ministry said on Thursday. “I learned with concern that a French researcher on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) who …
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(Reuters) – The United Nations said on Thursday that each day of renewed violence in Gaza makes the return of the remaining hostages held there a more distant objective. U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East Khaled Khiari said the return to hostilities threatens all civilians, including hostages, of whom 24 are thought still to …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukraine struck a major Russian strategic bomber airfield on Thursday with drones, triggering a huge blast and fire about 700 km (435 miles) from the front lines of the war, Russian and Ukrainian officials said. Videos verified by Reuters showed a huge blast spreading out from the airfield, wrecking nearby cottages. Russia’s …
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By Ossian Shine, Karolos Grohmann and Julien Pretot PYLOS, Greece (Reuters) -Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the organisation’s first female and first African president in its 130-year history. The Zimbabwean swimming great, already a towering figure in Olympic circles, emerged victorious to replace Thomas Bach, securing …
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s parliament voted to remove wolves’ protected status on Thursday, four years after their inclusion, opening the way for the predators to be hunted again in the country’s rural north. Farmers hailed the measure, while conservationists deplored it as “tragic” both for wolves and the country’s biodiversity. Parliament’s action reverses a measure …
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By Nerijus Adomaitis and Yuliia Dysa OSLO/KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday Ukrainian experts would be present at upcoming talks involving the United States and Russia, but will not be in the same room as Russia, as a diplomatic push to end the war intensifies. Russian and U.S. experts are due to …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – A guard protecting ancient sites in northern Greece has been charged with involvement in a crime ring smuggling out artefacts and selling them abroad, police officials said on Friday. The man was also suspended from the state body overseeing antiquities in the Serres region, the culture ministry said, a week after another …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany reopened its embassy in Syria on Thursday, establishing official diplomatic ties with the new leadership in Damascus as it faces deep humanitarian and security problems in rebuilding the country following the fall of Bashar al-Assad. “I am here in Syria for the second time in around 10 weeks because the country …
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By Inti Landauro and David Latona MADRID (Reuters) -Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged on Thursday to boost Spain’s defence spending along with the rest of the EU, though a parliamentary vote indicated divisions within his ruling coalition on the issue. With Spain having the NATO alliance’s lowest spending on defence at 1.3% of gross domestic …
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