ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey has not carried out any attacks targeting civilians in Iraq’s Dohuk province, where a strike killed eight and wounded 23, and Iraqi authorities must not fall for this “trap”, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday. Turkey on Wednesday rejected claims by Iraqi officials and state media that it had carried …
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ROME (Reuters) – Mario Draghi, the central banker turned Italian prime minister, won plaudits for his calm leadership as Italy emerged from the coronavirus crisis but suffered the same fate as many of his predecessors, brought down by fractious internal politics. Draghi, a prominent figure on the international stage as the former head of the …
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By Crispian Balmer, Giuseppe Fonte and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi handed in his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday after his unity government fell apart, plunging the country into political turmoil and hitting financial markets. Mattarella’s office said in a statement that the head of state had “taken …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi handed in his resignation on Thursday to President Sergio Mattarella, who asked him to remain in office in a caretaker capacity, the head of state’s office said in a statement. The statement did not say whether Mattarella would dissolve parliament or call early elections. (Reporting by Giulia …
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By David Kirton and Roxanne Liu SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) -China’s southern megacity of Shenzhen vowed to “mobilise all resources” to curb a slowly spreading COVID-19 outbreak, ordering strict implementation of testing and temperature checks, and lockdowns for COVID-affected buildings. Shenzhen, with a population of nearly 18 million, reported 22 new locally transmitted cases for Wednesday, …
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By Ali Sultan and and Kawa Omar SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) -Turkey on Wednesday refuted claims by Iraqi state media that it had carried out a strike on a mountain resort in Iraq’s northern Dohuk province that killed eight tourists and wounded another 23 people, saying the attack was a terror act. The “fierce artillery bombing” …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe, Alasdair Pal and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankan lawmakers voted in acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe as the new president on Wednesday, hoping his long experience in government can help pull the country out of a crippling economic and political crisis. The six-time prime minister won 134 votes in the 225-member …
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(Reuters) -Russia’s military “tasks” in Ukraine now go beyond the eastern Donbas region, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, as its forces shelled eastern and southern Ukraine. Lavrov also told state news agency RIA Novosti that Moscow’s objectives will expand still further if the West keeps supplying Kyiv with long-range weapons such as the …
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By Giuseppe Fonte and Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Wednesday demanded unity among his coalition partners if they wanted him to stay in office, leaving his resignation threat hanging over parliament. Draghi set out a series of issues facing Italy ranging from the war in Ukraine to social inequality …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Hundreds of firefighters on Wednesday battled a wildfire that raged for a second day in mountains near Athens, burning homes and cars and forcing the evacuation of at least nine settlements and a hospital. Gale-force winds and thick smoke in the Penteli region hindered fire-fighting efforts from the air and on the …
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