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Protesters break into Libya’s parliament building in Tobruk -witnesses tell Reuters
BENGHAZI (Reuters) - Protesters broke into Libya's parliament building in Tobruk on Friday evening and set fire in front of it, eyewitnesses told Reuters. Security forces protecting the parliament wit...
Jul 01, 2022
Ukraine’s Berlin envoy draws Israeli, Polish ire with views on WW2 nationalist
BERLIN (Reuters) - Ukraine's outspoken ambassador to Germany, a talkshow staple who was central to the public debates that led Berlin to step up weapons deliveries to Kyiv, is facing criticism for def...
Jul 01, 2022
Cuban general Lopez-Calleja dead of heart attack, state media says
HAVANA (Reuters) - General Luis Alberto Rodriguez Lopez-Calleja, one of Cuba's most powerful men, died on Friday of a heart attack, state media reported, leaving a critical hole in the political and e...
Jul 01, 2022
Indigenous leader who opposed illegal mining killed in Venezuela-NGO
PUERTO ORDAZ, Venezuela (Reuters) - A Venezuelan indigenous leader who was an opponent of armed groups and illegal mining was shot dead on Thursday in the Amazonas state capital, a non-governmental or...
Jul 01, 2022
Palau slams U.N. for blocking Taiwan delegates from attending Ocean Conference
LISBON (Reuters) - A representative from the tiny Pacific nation of Palau hit out at the United Nations on Friday for not allowing Taiwanese nationals to be part of its delegation list at the Ocean Co...
Jul 01, 2022
Sudan security forces skirmish with demonstrators after protest deaths
By El Tayeb Siddig KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese security forces fired tear gas at protesters on Friday near the presidential palace in Khartoum, a day after nine people were reported killed during th...
Jul 01, 2022
Jailed South African paralympic star Pistorius met victim’s father
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South Africa paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius, jailed in 2016 for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, last week met her father, a lawyer for the Steenkamp famil...
Jul 01, 2022
Colombia extradites accused drug cartel leader’s sister to U.S
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia on Friday extradited to the United States a sister of accused major drug cartel leader Dairo Antonio Usaga, known as Otoniel, to face drug trafficking charges, the national...
Jul 01, 2022
UNESCO declares borshch protected Ukrainian heritage at risk from Russian invasion
By Max Hunder KYIV/PARIS (Reuters) - Ukraine claimed victory in an age-old culinary dispute with Russia on Friday after the United Nations' cultural agency placed a traditional beetroot soup on its li...
Jul 01, 2022
Moroccan and Briton appeal death sentences in separatist-controlled east Ukraine
(Reuters) - A Moroccan and a British fighter sentenced to death by a Russian-backed separatist court in east Ukraine for fighting for Ukrainian forces have appealed against their sentences, the Russia...
Jul 01, 2022
