By Pavel Polityuk and Daren Butler KYIV/ISTANBUL (Reuters) -The ship Brave Commander has left the Ukrainian port of Pivdennyi, carrying the first cargo of humanitarian food aid bound for Africa from Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, Refinitiv Eikon data showed on Tuesday. Ukraine’s grain exports have slumped since the start of the war because of the …
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By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) -Explosions shook an ammunition depot in Russian-annexed Crimea on Tuesday, the latest such incident in a region used by Moscow as a staging post for its war in Ukraine. The Russian Defence Ministry said there were no serious casualties from the blasts in the northern Crimean village of Mayskoye, state-owned …
By Issam Abdallah and Timour Azhari YAROUN, Lebanon (Reuters) -Street-side signs in the southern Lebanese village of Yaroun, the ancestral home of the suspect in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie, bear posters of Iran’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who in 1989 issued a fatwa calling for the author’s death. The logo of Lebanon’s …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his predecessor Scott Morrison had “undermined our democracy” by secretly appointing himself minister for home affairs and treasury during the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to the health, finance and resources portfolios previously revealed. Morrison, who stepped down as leader of the Liberal Party after …
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(Reuters) – The 1989 fatwa imposed by Iran’s late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie for his novel “the Satanic Verses” has haunted many liberal novelists and thinkers whose writings were also seen as insulting to Islam and the Prophet Mohammad. The attempt on Rushdie’s life in New York on Friday is not an isolated …
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By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Sayed Sheasha CAIRO (Reuters) -An electrical fire swept through an Egyptian Coptic Christian church during Mass on Sunday, causing a stampede and killing at least 41 people, most of them children and many suffering from smoke inhalation. The blaze started just before 9 a.m. in the Abu Sifin church in …
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KABUL (Reuters) -The Taliban and their supporters waved the group’s black and white flag on the streets of Afghanistan on Monday to celebrate a year since they marched into the capital and took power after a stunning series of battlefield victories. In the 12 months since the United States’ chaotic withdrawal, some Afghans have welcomed …
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By Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) -Britain, the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine in late 2020, has now also given the first green light to a variant-adapted shot that targets both the original and Omicron version of the virus. The UK medicines regulator (MHRA) gave the so-called bivalent vaccine made by U.S. drug company …
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By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s foreign ministry said on Monday that no one had the right to level accusations against Tehran over Friday’s attack on Salman Rushdie, and only he and his supporters were worthy of reproach and condemnation for denigrating the world’s Muslims. The novelist, who has lived under a death threat for …
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By Duncan Miriri and Ayenat Mersie NAIROBI/KISUMU (Reuters) -Kenya’s elections chief declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of a tight presidential race on Monday but some senior election officials disowned the result, fuelling fears of widespread violence like that seen after previous disputed polls. Hailing the electoral commission as “heroes” after he was declared …
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