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Four dead, many injured after explosion at Havana hotel-state media
HAVANA (Reuters) - Four people have been killed and various people have been injured following an explosion at a hotel...
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Turkey, Germany summon each other’s envoys amid row over jailing of Turkish philanthropist
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey condemned Germany's summoning of its ambassador on Friday and called in Berlin's ambassador to Ankara in a...
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U.S., Germany have no right to comment on Turkey’s judiciary -justice minister
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said the U.S. and Germany have no right to comment on Turkey's...
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Turkish court sentences philanthropist Kavala to life in prison
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court sentenced philanthropist Osman Kavala to life in prison on Monday finding him guilty of...
Read moreRussia blocks Radio France Internationale, Moscow Times websites
LONDON (Reuters) -Russia has blocked access to the websites of Radio France Internationale and the Russian-language service of The Moscow...
Read moreRussia declares top journalist and video blogger ‘foreign agents’
(Reuters) - Russia has declared a prominent journalist, a video blogger and six other media figures "foreign agents", the latest...
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Turkish ministry to approve request to transfer Khashoggi case to S.Arabia
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey's justice minister said on Friday his ministry would approve a request to transfer a trial over the...
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Russia’s Novaya Gazeta paper suspends activity after second warning
(Reuters) - Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper, whose editor Dmitry Muratov was a co-winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize, said...
Read moreRussia states more limited war goal to ‘liberate’ Donbass
By Mark Trevelyan and Alexander Winning LONDON (Reuters) - In a scaled-back formulation of its war goals, Russia said on...
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UK revokes Russian channel RT’s licence, citing links to Kremlin
By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's media regulator on Friday revoked Russian-backed television channel RT's licence to broadcast in the...
Read moreMali to suspend French broadcasters France 24 and RFI
PARIS/DAKAR (Reuters) -Mali will suspend broadcasts by French state-funded international news outlets RFI and France 24 in an unprecedented clampdown...
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China’s factories opt for isolation bubbles to beat COVID curbs and keep running
By Josh Horwitz and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - To keep factory lines open in the face of COVID...
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Russia blocks BBC website, says it’s only beginning of its response
(Reuters) - Russian authorities on Wednesday blocked the website of Britain's BBC, which foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in...
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Exclusive-State TV protester tells Russians: open your eyes to Ukraine war propaganda
LONDON (Reuters) -A Russian woman who burst into a state TV studio to denounce the Ukraine war during a live...
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UK says it has settled historic debt to Iran
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has paid a historic debt owed to Iran relating to military equipment, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss...
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UK says Zaghari-Ratcliffe, fellow British-Iranian released by Iran
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Wednesday confirmed the release by Iran of British-Iranian dual nationals Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashouri,...
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Russian court fines woman for anti-war protest on state TV
LONDON (Reuters) - A Russian court fined a woman 30,000 roubles ($280) on Tuesday after finding her guilty of flouting...
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Mexico president slams ‘slanderous’ EU resolution on his treatment of media
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday slammed as "slanderous" a European Parliament resolution expressing...
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Russia’s Novaya Gazeta cuts Ukraine war reporting under censorship
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper, whose editor Dmitry Muratov was a co-winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize,...
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Russia blocks access to BBC and Voice of America websites
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia cut access to several foreign news organisations' websites, including the BBC and Deutsche Welle, for spreading what...
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