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By Pavel Polityuk and Iryna Nazarchuk KYIV/SERHIIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Explosions rocked the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv on Saturday, the mayor said, at the end of a week in which Russian missiles have slammed into an apartment block and a shopping mall in other cities, killing dozens of people. Air raid sirens sounded in the…

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DUBAI (Reuters) -At least five people were killed and 49 injured by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in southern Iran early on Saturday, state media reported, with the area also hit soon after by two strong quakes of up to 6.3 magnitude. Some 24 tremors, two with a magnitude of 6.3 and 6.1, followed the 2…

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ATHENS (Reuters) -An Iranian-flagged tanker seized by Greece in April, part of whose cargo was confiscated by the United States, was being towed to the port of Piraeus on Saturday, Greek coast guard officials said, after Greek authorities approved its release. For over two months the Iranian-flagged Lana has been anchored off the Greek island…

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(Attention to offensive language in paragraph 5) MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Thousands of Australians joined raucous protests across the country on Saturday against the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of women’s constitutional right to abortion. The Supreme Court last week overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, restoring the ability of individual states to ban abortion….

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(Reuters) – Powerful explosions rocked the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv early on Saturday, the mayor said, a day after authorities said at least 21 people were killed when Russian missiles struck an apartment building near the Black Sea port of Odesa. FIGHTING * Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters: “I would like to remind you…

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By Saurabh Sharma Rupam Jain UDAIPUR/MUMBAI, India (Reuters) – Indian police made fresh arrests in the case of the execution of a Hindu tailor in Rajasthan, a murder that stoked unease between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority, leading to a clampdown on protests and the internet to prevent tensions escalating. Three senior police officials…

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