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Factbox: Key facts on Pope’s Canada visit to apologize for residential school abuse
By Nia Williams (Reuters) - Pope Francis arrives in Canada on Sunday to apologize for the wrongs done to indigenous people by Roman Catholic priests and nuns who ran abusive residential schools. Here ...
Jul 20, 2022
France must invest more to fight wildfires – minister
PARIS (Reuters) - France must invest more money to fight wildfires, Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau said on Wednesday, as President Emmanuel Macron prepared to visit the Gironde region which has bee...
Jul 20, 2022
Bridge in Kherson region ‘badly damaged’ by Ukraine shelling – TASS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukrainian shelling badly damaged the Antonivskyi bridge in the Russia-controlled Kherson region of southern Ukraine, and it will likely be closed to traffic, TASS news agency report...
Jul 20, 2022
Germany’s winter barley crop up, wheat suffers from heat – farm lobby
HAMBURG (Reuters) - Germany's 2022 winter barley crop will increase to about 9 million tonnes which would be up from about 8.8 million tonnes last year, the association of German farmers DBV said on W...
Jul 20, 2022
Wildfire rages near Athens; homes damaged, hospital evacuated
ATHENS (Reuters) - A wildfire fuelled by gale-force winds raged in the mountainous region of Penteli near Athens on Wednesday morning, burning homes and prompting authorities to order the evacuation o...
Jul 20, 2022
China’s farms face climate change challenge, official says
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's massive agricultural sector is facing growing risks as a result of extreme weather and shifting planting conditions brought about by climate change, an official with the ag...
Jul 20, 2022
Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now
(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow had not seen any desire from Kyiv to fulfil what he described as a preliminary peace deal agreed to in March to end the war in Ukraine, where R...
Jul 19, 2022
Indonesian court rejects call to legalise medicinal marijuana
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected a judicial review of the country's narcotics law that would have paved the way for legalising marijuana for medicinal use, a ...
Jul 19, 2022
New Zealand launches new investor migrant visa
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The New Zealand government said on Wednesday that it had created a new investor migrant visa to attract experienced, high-value investors to invest in domestic b...
Jul 19, 2022
China’s military says it ‘followed, monitored’ U.S destroyer
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military said on Wednesday it followed and monitored U.S. destroyer Benfold's transit of the Taiwan Strait. "The frequent provocations and showing-off by the United States ...
Jul 19, 2022
