By Olena Harmash and Karin Strohecker KYIV/LONDON (Reuters) – Pictures of devastation in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion have sparked urgent questions over how its reconstruction can be paid for. But before they can even begin to be answered, Kyiv is seeking billions just to ride out this year. After a 30% contraction in its economy …
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A team of Reuters reporters has won the Selden Ring Award, one of the top prizes in investigative journalism, for reports that exposed grave human-rights abuses against women and children by the Nigerian military. The team – including reporters Paul Carsten, David Lewis, Reade Levinson and Libby George – were recognized for “Nightmare in Nigeria.” …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Foreign ministers of four European countries joined Washington on Tuesday in opposing a decision by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to authorize nine Jewish settler outposts in the occupied West Bank. The foreign ministers of Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the United States issued a joint statement voicing concern over the plans …
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By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) -The New Zealand government has declared a National State of Emergency for just the third time in history as Cyclone Gabrielle causes wide spread flooding, landslides and huge ocean swells across the North Island. Kieran McAnulty, the minister for Emergency Management, said in a statement on Tuesday that widespread damage …
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By Steve Keating GLENDALE, Ariz (Reuters) -Patrick Mahomes proved why he is the NFL’s Most Valuable Player as he shrugged off an ankle injury to lead the Kansas City Chiefs to a dramatic 38-35 win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday to claim their second Super Bowl in four years. Kansas City’s hopes of returning …
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By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel’s president floated a compromise plan on Sunday to spare the country what he described as a “constitutional collapse” and possible violence, over a contested judicial overhaul sought by the hard-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The rare prime-time television speech by President Isaac Herzog, whose figurehead role is …
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By Ali Kucukgocmen ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) – Volunteers struggling to find ever fewer survivors in the quake-hit Turkish city of Antakya said on Saturday ransacking and hygiene problems were adding to their daunting task. One resident, searching for a colleague buried in a collapsed building, said he witnessed looting in the first days after Monday’s …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran on Friday released hunger-striking jailed dissident Farhad Meysami, the Iranian judiciary said, a week after supporters had warned that he risked dying for protesting against the compulsory wearing of the hijab. Images on social media of an emaciated Meysami, who had been in jail since 2018 for supporting women activists protesting …
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By Herbert Lash NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -The dollar firmed and global equity markets fell on Friday as rising interest rates unsettled investors amid a growing chorus of central bank officials insisting monetary policy needs to remain tight for some time to lick inflation. U.S. mega-cap growth companies came under pressure and shares of ride-hailing firm …
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By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -Hugo Aguiar, general manager of Ecuadorean state-run oil company Petroecuador, resigned after his home was among locations searched by the attorney general’s office in a corruption probe, the country’s energy minister said on Friday. Earlier in the day, prosecutors raided offices at the company and an office at the presidency …
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