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Denmark resumes construction of Norway-Poland gas link
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Construction of the Danish part of Baltic Pipe, which will connect Poland to Norwegian gas fields, is resuming following a 33-month hiatus, Danish grid operator Energinet said o...
Mar 01, 2022
U.N. reports at least 536 civilian casualties in Ukraine
BERLIN (Reuters) - At least 136 civilians have been killed, including 13 children, and 400 have been injured since Russia invaded Ukraine last week, a United Nations agency said on Tuesday. "The real ...
Mar 01, 2022
Dutch to cull around 84,000 chickens after bird flu detected
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Around 47,000 chickens on a farm in the eastern Dutch city of Wageningen will be culled after the detection of highly infectious bird flu, the government said on Tuesday. There w...
Mar 01, 2022
Factbox-China-Russia trade has surged as countries grow closer
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Russia have grown increasingly close in recent years, including as trading partners, a relationship that brings both opportunities and risks as Russia reels from tough ne...
Mar 01, 2022
Ukraine president accuses Russia of ‘state terrorism’ in Kharkiv
LVIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Russian artillery attacks on Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv amounted to state terrorism and called on the intern...
Mar 01, 2022
EU, US, British envoys boycott Lavrov speech at UN rights forum
GENEVA (Reuters) - Dozens of diplomats from the European Union (EU), United States and Britain walked out of a speech by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the top U.N. human rights forum on Tu...
Mar 01, 2022
Sport-Badminton, swimming federations ban athletes from Russia and Belarus
(Reuters) - The world governing bodies for badminton and swimming suspended Russia and Belarus from international tournaments on Tuesday, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, although they said ath...
Mar 01, 2022
Russia says it won’t yield to sanctions pressure over Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Western sanctions will never make Russia change its position on Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. Responding to a barrage of Western sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, ...
Mar 01, 2022
A hotter planet means a hungrier planet, climate report warns
By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) - The future of food is troubling. Nearly a third of the world's crop fields and livestock rangeland will be unsuitable for food production by the end of this century...
Mar 01, 2022
EU lawmakers to call Russia a “rogue state” at emergency session with Zelenskiy
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU lawmakers will call Russia a "rogue state" and urge the 27-nation bloc to agree even tougher sanctions, in an emergency debate on the war on Tuesday during which Ukraine's Pres...
Mar 01, 2022
