KYIV (Reuters) – A 56-year-old man was injured in an overnight Russian drone strike on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s hometown, the central city of Kryvyi Rih, the regional governor said on Friday. The attack damaged a number of buildings in Kryvyi Rih but Ukraine’s air force said 16 of the 17 Iranian-made Shahed attack drones …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spaniards will interrupt their summer holidays to vote for a new parliament on July 23, after an election campaign in which no one party has established a decisive lead and featuring irate exchanges between the main candidates for prime minister Polls show the conservative opposition People’s Party (PP) of Alberto Nunez Feijoo …
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By Yimou Lee and Roger Tung TAIPEI (Reuters) – China’s military has been flexing its muscles this week around Taiwan practicing joint force operations far out at sea, ahead of Taipei holding its annual war games at the end of the month when Taiwan will simulate breaking a Chinese blockade. China, which views democratically governed …
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CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government will not allow election observers from the European Union to serve during its 2024 presidential elections, a top ruling party lawmaker said on Thursday. President Nicolas Maduro is expected to run in the contest next year, while the opposition is planning to hold a primary in October to chose a …
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CARACAS (Reuters) -The European Court of Human Rights has denied an effort by a former director of Venezuelan military intelligence, wanted on drug trafficking charges by the United States, to avoid extradition from Spain. The United States in 2020 accused Hugo Carvajal – who was late President Hugo Chavez’s eyes and ears within Venezuela’s military …
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AMSTERDAM/BOGOTA (Reuters) -The World Court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by Nicaragua seeking to define and expand its deep sea economic rights beyond those previously established in a long-running maritime border dispute over a trio of Caribbean islands with Colombia. Judges at the United Nations-linked World Court, or International Court of Justice, found that Nicaragua’s …
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By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -The U.S., the European Union and other countries warned of a threat to democracy in Guatemala after a court suspended an anti-graft party whose candidate is bidding for the presidency and threatening to take on the political establishment. On Thursday morning, prosecutors raided the electoral court’s citizen registry office …
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By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) -At least one person was killed on Thursday in a third successive night of Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, the city’s mayor said. Air defences shot down all 20 drones launched by Russia to attack Kyiv and the surrounding region, as well as two Kalibr missiles in other …
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(Reuters) – Three UN agencies on Wednesday warned that an ongoing rise in avian flu outbreaks globally raised concerns that the virus might adapt to infect humans more easily, and urged countries to strengthen disease surveillance and improve hygiene at poultry farms. Earlier this year, a new H5N1 strain of bird flu that is highly …
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By Lisa Richwine and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -HBO drama “Succession,” the story of a cutthroat fight for control of a family media empire, led the nominees for television’s Emmy awards on Wednesday with 27 nods for the show’s final season. Nominations for the highest honors in television were announced as Hollywood was in …
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