MOSCOW (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to have a call in the coming days or weeks, and it is unrealistic to aim to expel Russian soldiers from every inch of Ukrainian territory, a top Trump adviser said. Trump, who will return as U.S. president on Jan. 20, …
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By Keith Weir (Reuters) – Oliviero Toscani, the man behind the shock advertising campaigns that helped make Italy’s Benetton one of the world’s biggest clothing brands, died on Monday at the age of 82, his family said in a statement. Toscani was admitted to hospital on Friday in Cecina, near his Tuscan country home, in …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Romanians angered by the cancellation of a presidential election marched through Bucharest on Sunday to demand that the ballot should go ahead and that outgoing centrist President Klaus Iohannis should resign. In a move that polarised voters, Romania’s top court voided the presidential election on Dec. 6, two …
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By Fedja Grulovic ZAGREB (Reuters) -Croatian President Zoran Milanovic won a second term in the largely ceremonial post, a preliminary result based on vote count in 98.65% of the polling stations showed. Milanovic of the opposition Social Democratic Party was on track to win Sunday’s presidential election with 74.58% of votes, according to the state …
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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden spoke on Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House said, as U.S. officials race to reach a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal before Biden leaves office on Jan. 20. Biden and Netanyahu discussed efforts underway to reach a deal to halt the fighting …
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By Angelo Amante and Emilio Parodi ROME (Reuters) -Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini, who had been detained in Italy on a U.S. warrant, on Sunday left jail and returned to Iran after Rome’s justice minister filed to revoke his arrest. Abedini was arrested in Milan last month for allegedly supplying drone parts that Washington says were …
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BELGRADE (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in Belgrade on Sunday switched on the lights on their mobile phones and stood in silence for 15 minutes to commemorate victims of a railway station roof collapse for which they blame authorities. The protest was organised and led by students of the Belgrade state university …
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel plans to use tax revenue it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority to pay the PA’s nearly 2 billion shekel ($544 million) debt to state-run Israel Electric Co (IEC), Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Sunday. Israel collects tax on goods that pass through Israel into the occupied …
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By Chad Terhune and Fred Greaves ALTADENA, California (Reuters) – Flames were licking his fence, he was choking on smoke, and bullets were whizzing by his leg. Despite it all, Tristin Perez never left his Altadena home during the deadly Eaton fire. The 34-year-old carpenter felt he had no choice but to stay despite the …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Thousands of Romanians rallied outside the country’s top court on Friday to protest against the December cancellation of the presidential election in which a little-known pro-Russian candidate won the first round. Although small, protests have been continuing since Dec. 6, when the Constitutional Court voided the election two days before the second …
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