By Byron Kaye and Lincoln Feast SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s Labor Party was set to end almost a decade of conservative rule as the government was swept away in Saturday’s election by a wave of support for candidates who campaigned for more action on climate change and may hold the balance of power. Partial results showed …
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By Pavel Polityuk, Tom Balmforth and Terje Solsvik KYIV/OSLO (Reuters) -Russia intensified an offensive in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and stopped providing gas to Finland, escalating Moscow’s dispute with the West over energy payments. After ending weeks of resistance by the last Ukrainian fighters in the strategic southeastern city of Mariupol, …
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MADRID (Reuters) – People waved fans, glugged water and splashed themselves at fountains in Spain on Saturday as the country sweltered under unseasonably high temperatures pushing close to 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in some places. “The early morning of May 21 was extraordinarily warm for the time of year in much of the centre and …
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Representatives of the United States and several other nations walked out of an Asia-Pacific trade ministers meeting in Bangkok on Saturday to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, officials said. The walkout was “an expression of disapproval at Russia’s illegal war of aggression in Ukraine and its economic impact in the APEC region,” …
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By Eduardo Baptista and Laura Lin BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Shanghai cautiously pushed ahead on Saturday with plans to restore part of its transport network in a major step towards exiting a weeks-long COVID-19 lockdown, while Beijing kept up its defences in an outbreak that has persisted for a month. Shanghai’s lockdown since the beginning of …
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By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – Boeing’s new Starliner crew capsule docked for the first time with the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, completing a major objective in a high stakes do-over test flight into orbit without astronauts aboard. The rendezvous of the gumdrop-shaped CST-100 Starliner with the orbital …
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By Dave Sherwood and Matt Spetalnick HAVANA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Biden administration officials are considering inviting a Cuban representative to the U.S.-hosted Summit of the Americas, a person familiar with the matter said, as Washington scrambled to head off a potentially embarrassing boycott by some regional leaders. Discussion has focused on allowing a Cuban presence at the …
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By Natalia Zinets and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -The last Ukrainian forces holed up in Mariupol’s smashed Azovstal steelworks surrendered on Friday, Russia’s defense ministry said, ending the most destructive siege of the war as Moscow fought to cement control over the Donbas region. Hours before Russia’s announcement on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said …
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By Jennifer Rigby and Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization was holding an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox, a viral infection more common to west and central Africa, after over 100 cases were confirmed or suspected in Europe. In what Germany described as the largest outbreak …
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(Reuters) -Wimbledon had its ranking points stripped by the ATP and WTA Tours on Friday over its decision to exclude players from Russia and Belarus at this year’s Championships due to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Tennis’ governing bodies have banned Russia and Belarus from international team competitions following the invasion, which Moscow calls a ‘special …
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