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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – For centuries, one of the biggest taboos at the Vatican was openly discussing the pope’s health. As leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, the pope is a revered spiritual figure. Talking about his earthly health was profane. But as Pope Francis has battled double pneumonia at Rome’s …

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By Luiza Ilie CONSTANTA, Romania (Reuters) – On a frigid morning on the Black Sea the sun is glaring into the quiet navigation room of the massive semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Barents, anchored in Romania’s Constanta port. In a matter of weeks, the rig – known as the Mighty Barents – will travel 160 kms …

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By America Hernandez LONDON (Reuters) – European countries should consider replacing liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports from Russia with other sources beginning in 2027, the International Energy Agency director said on Tuesday. Fatih Birol was speaking at the International Energy Week conference in London. “Europe has been importing a lot of Russian LNG to help …

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By Gwladys Fouche and Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO (Reuters) – On a cold December morning in 1975, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov met a Norwegian diplomat on a Moscow street to hand over his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, so his wife could read his words at the Oslo award ceremony he was forbidden to …

Sakharov smuggled Nobel Prize speech to Oslo via embassy ploy, papers reveal 50 years on Read More »

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia had lots of rare earth metal deposits and that it was open to doing deals to develop them after President Vladimir Putin held out the possibility of such collaboration with the United States. “The Americans need rare earth metals. We have a lot of them,” …

Kremlin says Russia has lots of rare earth metals that the US needs and is open to cooperation Read More »