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Britain says Russia doesn’t need to be aggressive to play part on world stage
LONDON (Reuters) - Russia needs to understand that it does not need to be militarily aggressive or provocative in order...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain scrambled fighter jets on Wednesday after detecting unidentified aircraft approaching its airspace, the defence ministry said....
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Scotland split on support for independence, poll shows
LONDON (Reuters) - A poll on support for Scottish independence found voters are split on the idea, with backing for...
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Peak Omicron? Experts wary of calling time on variant wave in Europe
By Alistair Smout and Nikolaj Skydsgaard (Reuters) - A surge in coronavirus cases caused by the Omicron variant may have...
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Scotland to begin easing Omicron restrictions – Sturgeon
LONDON (Reuters) - Scotland will start lifting coronavirus measures that were introduced late last year, starting with the removal of...
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Pope warns about dangers of ‘cancel culture’
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Monday warned against attempts to cancel culture, decrying "one-track thinking"...
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Pope backs COVID immunisation campaigns, warns of ideological misinformation
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Monday condemned "baseless" ideological misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, backing national...
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Plan C? UK PM Johnson not planning further COVID rules despite Omicron growth
By Kylie MacLellan and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is not planning further restrictions in...
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The race is on to trace the new COVID-19 variant
By Alistair Smout, Francesco Guarascio and Chen Lin LONDON/BRUSSELS/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Governments around the world are urgently scouring databases for recent...
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Britain records third case of Omicron coronavirus variant
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has recorded the third case of the newly identified Omicron coronavirus variant, the UK Health Security...
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Storm Arwen leaves two dead in UK, triggers power cuts
LONDON (Reuters) - At least two people died and tens of thousands were left without power as Storm Arwen brought...
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Vulnerable states call climate loss and damage deal ‘bare minimum’
By Simon Jessop and Valerie Volcovici GLASGOW (Reuters) - After a three-decade struggle, some of the world's most climate-harmed countries...
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Carbon superpowers: U.S.-China deal seen as symbolic but not sufficient
(Corrects spelling of Jinping in paragraph 5) By Jake Spring, Valerie Volcovici and Simon Jessop GLASGOW (Reuters) - A joint...
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Panama’s team ‘make noise’ at COP26 for youth and women
By Valerie Volcovici and William James GLASGOW (Reuters) - Panama's top COP26 negotiator Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez pumps himself up...
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Indonesia to ‘walk the talk’ on deforestation, despite COP26 U-turn
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's foreign minister on Thursday defended her country's objection to a global deforestation pledge made last week,...
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U.S. and China unveil emissions deal in bid to save UN climate talks
By Jake Spring and Valerie Volcovici GLASGOW (Reuters) -The United States and China, the world's two largest emitters of carbon...
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‘Stay angry’ – Obama urges youth to push leaders on climate
By Valerie Volcovici and William James GLASGOW (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Barack Obama returned to the international spotlight Monday...
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Demoted Amazon police chief turns to song to save the rainforest
By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Alexandre Saraiva, a police chief in Brazil's Amazon region for a decade, was discharged...
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Malian villagers battle advancing sands after lake dries
DAKAR (Reuters) - Since Lake Faguibine in northern Mali dried up, communities on its parched shores have had to defend...
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More than 100 countries join pact to slash planet-warming methane emissions
By Kate Abnett, Valerie Volcovici, Ilze Filks and Jeff Mason GLASGOW (Reuters) - More than 100 countries have joined an...
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