By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Monday decried the deaths of children in global conflicts, telling a Vatican summit that “nothing is worth the life of a child”. Francis, who has been critical of both Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and the ongoing violence of the Russia-Ukraine war, did not specify …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ukraine struck energy facilities in southern Russia with dozens of drones launched on Monday, triggering fires at a major oil refinery and gas processing plant and disrupting flights from the Volga to the Caucasus Mountains, Russian and Ukrainian officials said. Russia’s defence ministry said that its air …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Any attempts at waging trade wars are a complete mistake, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday, after U.S. President Donald Trump said over the weekend that he would impose hefty new tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and China. “Poland will for sure be a country that encourages common sense …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Armen Sarkisyan, a senior pro-Russian paramilitary leader from eastern Ukraine, died in hospital on Monday after being critically injured in a bomb blast at a Moscow residential complex, Russia’s Kommersant newspaper reported. (Writing by Felix Light; Editing by Toby Chopra)
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are seen by Russia as possible venues for a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, two Russian sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters. Trump has said he will end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible and …
By Inna Varenytsia POKROVSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – When the elderly Ukrainian couple refused Hennadii Yudin’s pleas for them to evacuate their war-torn eastern city of Pokrovsk, the sturdy police officer tried another tactic: calling their grandchildren. “Come on, tell them they need to leave,” he implored them over a mobile video call. “We’re standing here …
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MADRID (Reuters) – World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso confronted former soccer federation boss Luis Rubiales in court on Monday, saying she did not agree to the kiss that has led to his trial on assault and coercion charges. Asked by a prosecutor at Madrid’s High Court if the kiss at the 2023 awards ceremony in …
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By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The 67th Grammy Awards, the highest honors in the music industry, were handed out at a ceremony on Sunday, broadcast on CBS and hosted by Trevor Noah. The following are the winners in the televised ceremony. ALBUM OF THE YEAR “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé RECORD OF THE YEAR “Not …
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(Reuters) – The Abu Dhabi Open has apologised to Russian world number 11 Daria Kasatkina for an administrative mistake that listed her as a player from Spain at the tournament’s draw ceremony on Sunday and sparked speculation that she had switched her nationality. Kasatkina has been playing on the tour as a neutral athlete after …
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(Reuters) – Russia’s Supreme Court refused to consider supervisory appeal of prominent nationalist and former militia commander Igor Girkin against his four-year jail term, TASS agency reported early on Monday. Girkin accused President Vladimir Putin and the army of failures in the war in Ukraine and was convicted a year ago of inciting extremism, a …
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