DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Thursday that “acts of chaos” are not acceptable, in a warning to protesters who have taken to the streets across the country to vent their fury over the death of a woman in the custody of the morality police. Speaking at a news conference on the sidelines …
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the United Nations on Wednesday that Ukraine wanted “just punishment” for a crime Russia had committed against his nation. Zelenskiy, in an a recorded address to the U.N. General Assembly, said Kyiv had a five-point plan to establish a durable peace – but rejected any suggestion that …
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By Hamza Ibrahim MAIDUGURI/KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigeria’s military is urging people in three northwestern states to leave forested areas ahead of a bombing campaign targeting bandits and terrorists, according to local broadcast stations and a military official. An advertisement running on local television and radio stations warned people in Zamfara, Katsina and the Birnin …
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(Reuters) – Russia has released some of the Ukrainian fighters it took prisoner after a protracted battle for the port city of Mariupol earlier this year, public broadcaster Suspline said on Wednesday. Suspline, citing the Azov battalion unit that did much of the fighting, said an exchange had happened near the northern Ukrainian city of …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian animal shelters are overflowing, and the wait to return animals can be as long as eight months as pet owners return to work and face rising costs. “In all the 20 years that I’ve been in rescue I have never seen it like this,” says Monika Biernacki, founder of Monika’s Doggie …
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By Orhan Qereman QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) – A decade into their experiment in self-rule, Syria’s Kurds fear an apparent rapprochement between Damascus and their foe the Turkish government could cost them their hard-won way of life. Before Syria’s conflict broke out, the country’s roughly two million Kurds were not permitted to learn the Kurdish language …
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(Reuters) -Canada’s federal government will likely drop its COVID-19 vaccine requirement for people entering Canada at the end of the month, a government source said on Tuesday. The source, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was “likely” to drop the vaccination requirement on Sept 30. The Globe …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland met with Ukraine’s top prosecutor in Washington on Tuesday and agreed to work more closely together to prosecute individuals involved in war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine, the Justice Department said. Garland and Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin discussed efforts to hold perpetrators accountable in the …
By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Russian-installed leaders in occupied areas of four Ukrainian regions on Tuesday set out plans for referendums on joining Russia, a challenge to the West that could sharply escalate the war and sparked condemnation from Ukraine and its allies. “The Russians can do whatever they want. It will not change anything,” …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Protests raged for a fourth straight day across Iran on Tuesday and authorities said three people had been killed during unrest over the death of a young woman in police custody. The death last week of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini who was arrested by morality police for “unsuitable attire” unleashed a flood of simmering …
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