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(Reuters) – A prominent Russian nationalist writer, Zakhar Prilepin, was wounded in a car bombing that killed his driver on Saturday, an attack that Russia immediately blamed on Ukraine and the West. WAGNER GROUP * Russia’s main mercenary group announced plans on Friday to withdraw from the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, but Ukraine said the fighters were reinforcing positions to try to seize it before Russia marks World War […]

By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Stuck in Tayyip Erdogan’s shadow throughout his career, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu believes his time has come to set Turkey on a new path and roll back much of the legacy of the man who has dominated politics for two decades. An alliance of six opposition parties named the earnest and sometimes feisty former civil servant as its candidate to take on Erdogan in […]

By Michael Holden and Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) – After years of being depicted as the most hated woman in Britain, Camilla, the second wife of King Charles, was crowned queen on Saturday, capping a remarkable turnaround in public acceptance few would have thought possible. When Charles’ divorced first wife, the popular, glamorous Princess Diana, died in a car crash in Paris in 1997, Camilla bore the brunt of media […]

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) – From traditional robes to statement headpieces, royals and guests wore an array of colourful outfits for the coronation of Britain’s King Charles III on Saturday, filling London’s Westminster Abbey with a mix of hues and designs. The monarch arrived at the Abbey in the crimson velvet Robe of State, worn by his grandfather King George VI at his 1937 coronation, a crimson coronation tunic […]

By Aziz El Yaakoubi and Nafisa Eltahir RIYADH (Reuters) -Envoys of Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are in Jeddah for talks on Saturday, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said, as the gathering’s international mediators pressed for an end to a conflict that has devastated the country. The U.S.-Saudi initiative is the first serious attempt to end three weeks of fighting that have has turned parts of the Sudanese capital […]

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran on Saturday executed a Swedish-Iranian dissident convicted of leading an Arab separatist group accused of attacks including one on a military parade in 2018 that killed 25 people, state television reported. The Swedish foreign ministry said it had summoned Iran’s deputy ambassador to protest the execution of Habib Farajollah Chaab, which it confirmed took place earlier in the day. Chaab had been sentenced to death for being […]

By Michael Holden, Andrew MacAskill and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) -King Charles III was crowned on Saturday in Britain’s biggest ceremonial event for seven decades, a sumptuous display of pageantry dating back 1,000 years. In front of a congregation of about 100 world leaders and a television audience of millions, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Church, slowly placed the 360-year-old St Edward’s Crown on Charles’ […]

By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) -A prominent Russian nationalist writer, Zakhar Prilepin, was wounded in a car bombing on Saturday that Russia immediately blamed on Ukraine and the West. TASS news agency quoted the interior ministry as saying one person had been killed in the blast in the Nizny Novgorod region, about 400 km (250 miles) east of Moscow. A ministry spokeswoman said a suspect had been arrested. Russian Foreign Ministry […]

By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) -A prominent Russian nationalist writer, Zakhar Prilepin, was wounded in a car bombing on Saturday that Russia immediately blamed on Ukraine and the West. TASS news agency quoted the interior ministry as saying one person had been killed in the blast in the Nizny Novgorod region, about 400 km (250 miles) east of Moscow. A ministry spokeswoman said a suspect had been arrested. Russian Foreign Ministry […]