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Ukraine says all women, children now evacuated from Mariupol steel mill

7 May 2022 7 May 2022

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -All women, children and elderly civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister said on Saturday, despite what military officers said was an ongoing Russian assault at the plant. “This part of the Mariupol humanitarian operation is over,” Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk …

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Sinn Fein calls for united Ireland debate after historic election win

7 May 2022 7 May 2022

By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) -Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), hailed its first victory in a Northern Ireland Assembly election as a “defining moment” for the British-controlled region and called for a debate on a united Ireland. Sinn Fein was ahead of the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) …

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Taliban order Afghan women to cover faces again

7 May 2022 7 May 2022

KABUL (Reuters) -Afghanistan’s Taliban government ordered women on Saturday to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions that are causing anger at home and abroad. A decree from the group’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, said that if a woman did not …

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Berlin authorities looking into device disabled at residence housing Russian media

7 May 2022 7 May 2022

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Berlin criminal investigators and prosecutors were on Saturday studying a device found and destroyed at a residential building housing Russian news agency staff in the city’s Steglitz district, Berlin authorities said. The device was found on Friday and investigators were looking into how dangerous it had been and who it was aimed at, …

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Fires kill at least 8 people in Siberia as high winds hamper rescue

7 May 2022 7 May 2022

(Reuters) – At least eight people died in Siberia on Saturday as fires ripped through hundreds of buildings in several villages, with high winds hampering efforts to extinguish the blazes. In the Krasnoyarsk region, about 3,000 km (1,900 miles) east of Moscow, fires killed five people in 16 settlements across the Kazachinskoe and Sharypovsky districts, …

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EU attempts to save Iran nuclear deal with last-ditch effort -FT

7 May 2022 7 May 2022

(Reuters) -The European Union is making a last-ditch attempt to save the Iran nuclear deal and break a deadlock, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told the Financial Times that he was seeking a “middle way” to end the impasse, which threatens to scupper more than a year of …

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N.Korea fires likely submarine-launched ballistic missile, S.Korea, Japan say

7 May 2022 7 May 2022

By Joyce Lee and Kantaro Komiya SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) -North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Saturday, South Korea and Japan said, three days before the inauguration of South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, who has vowed to take a hard line against the North. South Korean military said that North Korea fired what is believed to …

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Colombo calm after Sri Lanka declares state of emergency

7 May 2022 7 May 2022

By Alasdair Pal and Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -Streets in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo were calm on Saturday after the president declared a state of emergency following escalating anti-government protests. Details of the latest emergency regulations were not yet made public, but previous emergency laws have given greater powers to the president to deploy …

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Gas leak blamed for blast at iconic Havana hotel that killed 22

7 May 2022 7 May 2022

By Dave Sherwood HAVANA (Reuters) -A deadly explosion hit a well-known hotel in downtown Havana on Friday, tearing a gash several floors high in the side of the building, killing at least 22 people and injuring upwards of 70, witnesses and state media said. Speaking from the scene on Cuban television, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said …

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Beijing kicks off fresh round of COVID tests as Shanghai postpones crucial exams

7 May 2022 7 May 2022

By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s capital Beijing kicked off a fresh round of mass testing for COVID-19 on Saturday and shut more bus routes and metro stations, as it seeks to avert the fate of Shanghai, where millions of residents have been locked down for over a month. The draconian movement curbs on …

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