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By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) – Angola’s main opposition party on Thursday filed a case with the constitutional court to seek the annulment of last week’s election in which the ruling MPLA was declared the winner, Portuguese news agency Lusa said. After the most closely fought election since independence from Portugal in 1975, the electoral …

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(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday expressed his deepest condolences on the death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Interfax news agency. (Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Chris Reese)

By Andrea Shalal and Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey KYIV (Reuters) – Svitlana tears up thinking of the bombing that leveled her son Illia’s school in Lysychansk, a city in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk now occupied by Russian forces, but she is determined to ensure the eighth-grader continues his studies. “My son’s school is not there …

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By Jan Schwartz and Emma-Victoria Farr HAMBURG/LONDON (Reuters) -Preliminary steps to list Porsche on the stock market are expected in the coming days, six people familiar with the matter said, adding executives at parent Volkswagen and family members were gathering to sell the idea to wary investors. A flotation would test the investor appeal of …

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VIENNA (Reuters) – European Union foreign ministers meeting later this week, are unlikely to unanimously back a visa ban on all Russians, as would be needed to put in place such a ban, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told Austria’s ORF TV on Sunday. “I don’t think that to cut the relationship with the …

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BELGRADE (Reuters) – Thousands of religious and right-wing opponents of a European gay Pride event to be hosted by Belgrade protested through the Serbian capital on Sunday, even though the government has said it would scrap or delay the Pride event. Belgrade is due to host the EuroPride march on Sept. 17, an event staged …

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(Reuters) – Libya’s worst fighting for two years suddenly hit the capital, Tripoli, on Saturday. This explains what led to the violence, why it matters, and how things may play out. HOW DID LIBYA FALL APART? Libya’s fault lines surfaced as local groups took different positions in the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi. …

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By Ahmed Elumami TRIPOLI (Reuters) -Charred cars and buildings pockmarked by bullets scarred Libya’s capital on Sunday, the day after intense fighting killed 32 people yet appeared to leave the Tripoli government more firmly entrenched. Battles raged across the city throughout Saturday as forces aligned with the parliament-backed administration of Fathi Bashagha failed to take …

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