By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge said Sotheby’s must face part of Russian billionaire oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev’s lawsuit accusing the auction house of helping his former art dealer overcharge him by hundreds of millions of dollars on 15 pieces of world-class art. In a 76-page decision on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge …
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By Yevhen Titov NEAR CHASIV YAR, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russian forces carried out relentless attacks on Bakhmut on Wednesday, trying to encircle and storm the eastern Ukrainian city and claim their first major prize for more than half a year after some of the bloodiest fighting of the war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Moscow of …
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By Rami Ayyub WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s call for a Palestinian village to be “erased” amounted to incitement to violence and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must publicly disavow it, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday. An ultranationalist in Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition, Smotrich made the comments at a conference on Wednesday …
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban authorities have accused the U.S. government of being “complicit in piracy” for granting political asylum to a pilot who fled to Florida on a small “kidnapped” plane last October. In a statement late Tuesday, Cuba’s foreign ministry said it had summoned Washington’s charge d’affaires in Havana to communicate Cuba’s “protest” to …
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By Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party will back the ratification of Finland and Sweden’s bid to join NATO, the party’s parliamentary group said on Wednesday, as lawmakers began the process after a months-long delay. The announcement followed calls by Hungary’s president and a government official to swiftly endorse …
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By Felix Onuah and Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria’s new president-elect, Bola Tinubu, defended the election he just won as credible on Wednesday but Peter Obi, one of his main opponents, planned to challenge the result in court, according to Obi’s running mate. The main opposition parties have described the outcome of Saturday’s election as …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli protesters blocked the main highway from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Wednesday, as lawmakers were set to plough ahead with a contentious judicial overhaul that opponents see as a threat to democracy. “Israel is not a dictatorship, Israel is not Hungary,” the protesters called, waving blue and white Israeli flags. Demonstrations …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia brought new law amendments to parliament on Wednesday that further strengthen the country’s censorship laws, envisaging up to 15 years in jail for discrediting the armed forces and voluntary military organisations such as the Wagner Group. Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group that is trying to storm Ukraine’s Bakhmut, complained …
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(Reuters) – Canadian investigators did not detect foreign interference in a 2021 general election that jeopardised Canada’s ability to hold a free and fair vote, the government said on Tuesday, citing an independent assessment of a system to protect democracy. The Globe and Mail newspaper reported this month that China employed a sophisticated strategy to …
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By Jake Spring and Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) – The world cannot meet its climate goal to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degree Celsius unless it protects the Amazon rainforest, climate envoy John Kerry said in Brazil on Tuesday while discussing possible U.S. funding for jungle conservation. Brazil’s new President Luiz Inacio Lula da …
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