Albania's former PM Berisha loses appeal against ban from UK
(Reuters) - Albanian opposition leader Sali Berisha, the country's former president and prime minister, on Monday lost his appeal against a ban on entering Britain over alleged criminal links. Berisha, head of Albania's main opposition Democratic P...
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Kremlin says Swiss conference showed futility of talks without Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday that a Swiss-hosted conference on the Ukraine war had produced negligible results and showed the futility of holding talks without Russia. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters the results of t...
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Kremlin says NATO chief's nuclear weapons remarks are an escalation
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's remarks about talks on deploying more nuclear weapons were an escalation. NATO is in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons, taking them out of storage and p...
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Campaigning kicks off in France for snap election
PARIS (Reuters) - Campaigning kicked off in France on Monday for a snap parliamentary election which opinion polls suggest the far-right National Rally will win, with President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance coming third, behind a leftwing tic...
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Italy's Fincantieri chairman found dead
ROME (Reuters) - Claudio Graziano, the chairman of Italian state-controlled shipbuilder Fincantieri, has been found dead, the company said in a statement on Monday, confirming earlier media reports. "Fincantieri expresses its immense sorrow for the...
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Philippine captain vows to return to sea after Houthi attack
By Neil Jerome Morales and Jay Ereno MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine crew of a vessel attacked by Yemen's Houthi militants was repatriated to the Philippines from Bahrain on Monday, with the ship's captain vowing to return to the seas after the c...
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'Join the revolt': UK's Farage to lay out election policies
By Elizabeth Piper and William James MERTHYR TYDFIL, Wales (Reuters) - Nigel Farage, whose entry into the British election has damaged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's already faint hopes of victory, will on Monday set out his Reform UK party's policie...
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Factbox-South Africa's Ramaphosa re-elected president. What happens next?
By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected as South Africa's president on Friday with the support of once rival parties that have agreed to join his African National Congress (ANC) in a new government of national unit...
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Zimbabwe police arrest opposition leader and 80 youths, says lawyer
(Adds dropped word "not" in 6th paragraph) HARARE (Reuters) -Zimbabwe police have arrested opposition leader Jameson Timba and 80 youths for holding a political gathering which authorities said was unauthorized, their lawyer said on Monday. Timba took ...
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Netanyahu disbands his inner war cabinet, Israeli official says
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the six-member war cabinet, an Israeli official said on Monday, in a widely expected move that came after the departure from government of the centrist former general Benny Ga...
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Denmark aims to limit shadow fleet of Russian oil tankers
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark is considering ways to limit the passage of old tankers carrying Russian oil through the Baltic Sea, the Nordic country's foreign minister said in a statement on Monday, in a move that could trigger confrontation with...
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Three of Vietnam's five undersea internet cables are down
HANOI (Reuters) - Three out of Vietnam's five active international undersea internet cables are down, state media said over the weekend, the second major round of outages in the country in just over a year. The problems with the three cables, which...
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South Korea to hold first round of talks with China on Tues
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea and China will hold their first round of diplomatic and security dialogue on Tuesday, Seoul's foreign ministry said on Monday, in line with an agreement the two nations made last month. The talks will be led by South Korean...
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In a Greek jail, inmates find freedom in theatre
By Stelios Misinas and Karolina Tagaris KORYDALLOS PRISON, Greece (Reuters) - On a stifling summer evening, the actors took to the stage: a grassy courtyard enclosed by towering prison walls, topped with barbed wire and lit by a floodlight. The per...
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Old Hanoians hail 'world leader' Putin ahead of expected visit
By Minh Nguyen and Thinh Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) - Nguyen Thi Hong Van's Russian souvenir shop may be a bit of an oddity in the Vietnamese capital but her gifts sell very well, she says, reflecting the enthusiasm old Hanoians have for an expected vi...
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NATO in talks to put nuclear weapons on standby, boss tells UK's Telegraph
LONDON (Reuters) - NATO is in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons, taking them out of storage and placing them on standby, in the face of a growing threat from Russia and China, the head of the alliance said on Monday. Jens Stoltenberg told Britai...
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As Thailand moves to pass same-sex marriage law, couple wait to tie the knot
By Artorn Pookasook and Juarawee Kittisilpa BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai lesbian couple Vorawan "Beaut" Ramwan and Anticha "An" Sangchai are patiently waiting for the passage of their country's same-sex marriage law so that they can cement their relati...
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Russia to hold espionage trial of US reporter Gershkovich behind closed doors
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia will hold the espionage trial of detained U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich, who denies charges of collecting secrets for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), behind closed doors later this month, a court in city of Yekaterinbur...
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Russia's Putin to visit Vietnam, sparking US rebuke of Hanoi
By Francesco Guarascio and Khanh Vu HANOI (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Hanoi this week, multiple officials said, highlighting Communist-ruled Vietnam's loyalty to Russia and triggering a U.S. rebuke. The visit follows Hanoi av...
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Bird flu spreads to seventh Australian poultry farm
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Highly pathogenic avian influenza has spread to a seventh poultry farm near Melbourne, the government of Australia's Victoria state said on Monday. Six of the properties have an H7N3 flu strain and a seventh has an H7N9 strain,...
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Europe must catch up in green tech race, Spain's climate minister says
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The next European Commission must do more to help European industry catch up in the green tech race with China and the U.S., said Spain's climate and energy minister Teresa Ribera, a front-runner to be the EU's n...
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World falling behind on environment, health and hunger goals, UN report says
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The world is way off track on most of the sustainable development targets agreed in 2015, such as tackling poverty and hunger, says a United Nations report which cites funding shortfalls, geopolitical tensions and the COVID-19...
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Taiwan is not seeking war with China, defence minister says
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan is not seeking war with Beijing, and its policy is to build up a defensive, multi-level deterrence capability to make it harder for China to capture the island, Taiwan Defence Minister Wellington Koo said on Monday. Democr...
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Thousands of Rohingya feared trapped in fighting in western Myanmar
(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Muslim minority Rohingya are feared to be caught in fighting in western Myanmar, as a powerful armed ethnic group bears down on junta positions in a coastal town on the country's border with Bangladesh. The Arakan A...
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EU leaders to discuss top jobs with line-up seemingly set
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders will debate policy goals for the next five years from defence to the economy, and who to place in top EU jobs, when they convene in Brussels on Monday. The informal meeting will be the first leaders gathe...
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