BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday rejected criticism that Germany was not showing leadership in western efforts to supply Ukraine with heavy weapons to repel Russia’s invasion, saying that he’d rather be cautious than make hasty decisions. Scholz is under pressure at home and abroad to supply Ukraine with heavy arms such as …
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LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie visited the Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday, going to the station to meet people displaced by the war with Russia before later leaving after air-raid sirens sounded. Jolie, 46, is a special envoy for the United Nations refugee agency, which says more than 12.7 million people have …
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By Hamuda Hassan, Jorge Silva and Natalia Zinets DOBROPILLIA, Ukraine/KYIV (Reuters) – Russia carried out missile strikes across southern and eastern Ukraine on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said, and some women and children were evacuated from a steel plant in the besieged city of Mariupol after sheltering there for over a week. Moscow has turned its …
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By Jennifer Rigby and Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) – Health authorities around the world are investigating a mysterious increase in severe cases of hepatitis – inflammation of the liver – in young children. Below is a summary of what is known about the outbreak. WHAT’S HAPPENED? More than 130 cases have been identified, with the …
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By Andrew MacAskill and Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Britain and India agreed on Friday to step up defence and business cooperation during a visit to New Delhi by Boris Johnson, who said a bilateral free-trade deal could be wrapped up by October. On his first visit to the Indian capital as UK prime …
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By Brenda Goh and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Stiffening resolve after three weeks of strict lockdown, authorities warned Shanghai’s 25 million frazzled residents on Friday that their purgatory would go on until the COVID-19 virus was eradicated neighbourhood by neighbourhood. “I have no idea whether I will ever be allowed to go out again …
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(Reuters) – Swimming’s world governing body FINA said on Friday it had suspended Russian Olympic gold medallist Evgeny Rylov for nine months after he attended a rally in Moscow in support of Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine. Rylov, who won gold in 100 and 200 metres backstroke events at last year’s Tokyo Olympics, was among …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – The Australian government has imposed sanctions and travel bans on two daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s daughter, it said in a statement on Friday. It follows similar measures undertaken by other Western nations including the United States and Britain, and takes the total number of people …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has thanked South Korea’s outgoing president for trying to improve relations, a rare gesture of goodwill but one that analysts said may not be enough to head off growing tension between the two Koreas. The warm words from North Korea to President Moon Jae-in …
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By Gloria Dickie and Kate Abnett (Reuters) – Europeans endured the hottest summer on record last year, with wildfires, floods and intense heatwaves hitting the continent, according to a report https://climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2021 by EU scientists released Friday. Summer temperatures were about 1 degree Celsius above the average over the past three decades, with Italy even recording …
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