(Adds peace talks, White House on ICC and sanctions, ICRC and Russia comments on Mariupol) By Marko Djurica and Abdelaziz Boumzar BUCHA, Ukraine (Reuters) – International outrage spread on Monday over civilian killings in northern Ukraine, where a mass grave and tied bodies of people shot at close range were found in a town taken …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russian forces are obviously responsible for the atrocities in the Ukrainian town on Bucha, the Pentagon said on Monday, even as it acknowledged it was not yet sure precisely which units were operating in the area. “I think it’s fairly obvious, not just to us but to the world, that Russian forces …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will consult allies to ensure Russia and President Vladimir Putin pay the price for war crimes being committed in Ukraine, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Sullivan said he had yet to see evidence that Russian atrocities had risen …
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By Lisa Richwine LAS VEGAS (Reuters) -Multi-genre artist Jon Batiste won album of the year and R&B duo Silk Sonic took two of the top honors on Sunday at a Grammy awards ceremony that featured a surprise appeal for support from wartime President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine. Batiste, who leads the band on “The Late …
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China has sent the military and thousands of healthcare workers into Shanghai to help carry out COVID-19 tests for all of its 26 million residents as cases continued to rise on Monday, in one of the country’s biggest-ever public health responses. Some residents woke up before dawn for white-suited healthcare workers to swab …
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(Reuters) -Trevor Reed, a former U.S. Marine jailed in Russia, has been transferred to the prison’s medical facility after declaring a hunger strike last month, the Interfax news agency cited his lawyers as saying on Monday. The 30-year-old Texan is serving a nine-year jail term after being convicted of endangering the lives of two police …
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(Reuters) – Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani resigned from his post on Monday to become his country’s ambassador to the United States, TASS news agency quoted Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili as saying. (Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Alison Williams)
DUBAI (Reuters) -The United States is responsible for the pause in talks between Tehran and world powers in Vienna aimed at reviving their 2015 nuclear deal, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday. “America is responsible for the halt of these talks … a deal is very much within reach,” Saeed Khatibzadeh told a …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Military conscripts in the Russian-backed Donbas region have been sent into front-line combat against Ukrainian troops with no training, little food and water, and inadequate weapons, six people in the separatist province told Reuters. The new accounts of untrained and ill-equipped conscripts being deployed are a fresh indication of how stretched the …
By Asif Shahzad and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s political turmoil deepened on Sunday, when Prime Minister Imran Khan avoided an attempt to oust him and sought fresh elections after dissolving parliament, a move the opposition called treasonous and vowed to fight. The deputy speaker of parliament, a member of Khan’s party, blocked an …
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