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Pensioner waits at missile attack site to identify bodies of family, presumed dead

1 Feb 2025

By Vitalii Hnidyi POLTAVA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian military pensioner Ihor Yavorskyi spent all day Saturday at the site of a Russian missile attack to discover what he presumed was the inevitable — identifying the bodies of three family members he was certain were killed in the strike. Yavorskyi, 61, stood together with other anxious …

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Palestinian teen among 5 killed in Israeli airstrikes on West Bank, health ministry says

1 Feb 2025

RAMALLAH/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was among five killed on Saturday in Israeli airstrikes on Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, as a large-scale Israeli military operation there looks set to continue for a third week. The Israeli military began raiding the city in the northern West Bank on …

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Protesters block bridges in Serbia’s Novi Sad over November train disaster

1 Feb 2025

BELGRADE(Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people blockaded three bridges on the Danube River in Serbia’s second city of Novi Sad on Saturday in the latest anti-government protest over a railway station disaster that killed 15 people in November. Protests over the deaths caused by a roof collapsing at a station in Novi Sad quickly …

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Exclusive-U.S. wants Ukraine to hold elections following a ceasefire, says Trump envoy

1 Feb 2025

By Erin Banco and Jonathan Landay NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States wants Ukraine to hold elections, potentially by the end of the year, especially if Kyiv can agree a truce with Russia in the coming months, President Donald Trump’s top Ukraine official told Reuters. Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, said …

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Russian court places two former Rosnano executives in pre-trial detention

1 Feb 2025

(Reuters) – Two former executives of Russian state nanotechnology corporation Rosnano were placed in pre-trial detention on Saturday charged with abuse of power, the Moscow courts’ press service said on Telegram. They are accused of manipulating Rosnano’s finances in an attempt to mislead the state, the firm’s sole shareholder, into maintaining financial guarantees and providing …

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Moldovan opposition leader forms coalition to challenge Sandu at parliament election

1 Feb 2025

(This Jan. 31 story has been corrected to fix the election deadline to Oct. 26, not Oct. 11, in paragraph 3) By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) – Moldovan opposition leader Alexandr Stoianoglo, who was defeated at a presidential vote in November, said on Friday he was taking the helm of a coalition of three parties …

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Horst Koehler, former German president and IMF chief, dies at 81

1 Feb 2025

BERLIN (Reuters) – Horst Koehler, former German president from 2004 to 2010 and a respected global policymaker with a particular interest in Africa, died on Saturday after a short illness at the age of 81, the federal presidential office said in a statement. Born in 1943 in German-occupied Poland, Koehler spent most of his early …

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Russian missile attack seriously damages historic centre of Ukraine’s Odesa

1 Feb 2025

(Reuters) -Russian forces launched missiles on the centre of Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa, a UNESCO World Heritage site, seriously damaging historic buildings and injuring seven people, local officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the attack was “a deliberate strike” that underscored again the need to strengthen Ukraine’s air defences. He said Norwegian diplomats …

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Belgium set for new government after months of negotiations

1 Feb 2025

By Bart H. Meijer BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Political parties in Belgium agreed on Friday to form a new government, the office of Belgian King Philippe said, ending almost eight months of complicated talks that followed the election victory of Flemish nationalist party N-VA. N-VA leader Bart De Wever, 54, is expected to become prime minister and …

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