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LONDON (Reuters) – Russian opposition politician Yevgeny Roizman was shown being detained at his home in a video published on social media on Wednesday, in the latest move by authorities to punish critics of the war in Ukraine. Video of the arrest showed Roizman, former mayor of the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, being taken away …

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By Rory Carroll LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles Angels owner Arte Moreno on Tuesday said he has begun exploring the possibility of selling the Anaheim-based team he has owned for 20 seasons. “Although this difficult decision was entirely our choice and deserved a great deal of thoughtful consideration, my family and I have ultimately …

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By Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) – Tatiana Afansieva dreams of returning to Ukraine from her life of exile in Poland, but even though her neighbours back home in Kryvyi Rih tell her Russian shelling there has stopped, she is too afraid. “People tell me that it looks normal, life goes on, people go to …

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By Ricardo Brito, Rodrigo Viga Gaier and Andre Romani BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian police on Tuesday conducted raids targeting several businessmen who have backed President Jair Bolsonaro’s re-election, two sources said, after a media report accused them of discussing the virtues of a coup d’etat if the far-right leader lost the October vote. Federal police …

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(Reuters) -Moderna Inc said on Tuesday it has completed its submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the emergency use authorization of its COVID-19 booster shot tailored against the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of Omicron. The application is based on pre-clinical data for the dose that contains the dominant BA.4/BA.5 variants along with …

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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s secret appointments to ministries during the COVID-19 pandemic “fundamentally undermined” responsible government despite being legally valid, according to advice from the solicitor general. The advice from the country’s second-highest law officer was a “very clear criticism” of the implications for Australia’s parliamentary democracy, current …

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By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) – Three Ukrainian soldiers who say they were wounded and taken prisoner by Russia after one of the war’s biggest battles and later released, on Monday accused their captors of torture and psychological pressure. The men, part of a force that spent weeks fighting from a vast steelworks in the …

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