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By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s White House Pride Month celebration, expected to be the largest in history, will be postponed from Thursday evening until Saturday, officials said, as Washington is enveloped in a cloud of smoke from Canadian wildfires. “Today’s Pride event on the White House South Lawn will be postponed until Saturday based on the projected air quality in the region,” the White House said in […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – One of Russia’s longest-serving and most respected human rights campaigners went on trial on Thursday, facing the prospect of three years in jail if convicted of repeatedly discrediting Russia’s armed forces, his organisation said. Oleg Orlov has since 1999 been one of the leaders of Memorial, which won a share of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 a year after being banned and dissolved in Russia. Since […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to double the number of U.S. personnel available to help fight wildfires raging in Canada and to mitigate the risk to American air quality. The chamber’s top Democrat said he would send a letter to Vilsack laying out his requests, while calling the wildfires that have led to unhealthy air quality in major […]

By Martyn Herman ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola is one of the top two or three coaches of all time, former Barcelona team mate Carles Puyol said ahead of Saturday’s Champions League final in which Guardiola will bid to win the trophy for a third time. Puyol played alongside Guardiola for Barcelona and was captain of the Barca team managed by him a few years later, winning the […]

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will host the largest White House Pride Month celebration in history on Thursday, in a deliberate contrast to a cascade of Republican legislation and other attacks targeting LGBTQ+ people. Biden, a Democrat, will host thousands of people on the White House’s South Lawn for an evening celebration of LGBTQ+ families that will feature singer Betty Who and Baltimore DJ Queen HD. […]

By Gabriela Baczynska and Alexander Ratz BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Italy sought last-minute changes on Thursday to a tentative EU agreement on sharing out responsibility for looking after migrants and refugees, pushing for a cut in the number of people each country would take on. Home affairs ministers from across the 27-member bloc are meeting to try seal a deal to end years of damaging feuds dating back to 2015 when more […]

By Gabriela Baczynska and Alexander Ratz BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Italy sought last-minute changes on Thursday to a tentative EU agreement on sharing out responsibility for looking after migrants and refugees, pushing for a cut in the number of people each country would take on. Home affairs ministers from across the 27-member bloc are meeting to try seal a deal to end years of damaging feuds dating back to 2015 when more […]

By Abigail Summerville and Anirban Sen NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. grains merchant Bunge Ltd is putting the final touches on a deal to merge with Glencore Plc-backed peer Viterra and create an agricultural trading giant worth more than $30 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The deal, whose terms have not been previously reported, would come as Russia’s war in Ukraine has tested the […]

By Emily Rose JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Five men were killed in one of the deadliest crime-related shootings in Israel’s recent history on Thursday, in a suburb of the northern city of Nazareth, Israeli police said. “We arrived at the scene with large forces and saw that it was a very difficult scene,” senior medic Ataf Salem from Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency services said, adding that “five wounded lay unconscious and […]