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(This story contains graphic descriptions) By Simon Gardner BUCHA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Sobbing uncontrollably, Serhii Lahovskyi nuzzles against the shrouded corpse of his closest childhood friend, who disappeared when Russian troops occupied the Ukrain…

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain froze the assets of Russia’s largest bank Sberbank on Wednesday and said it would ban imports of Russian coal by the end of 2022 in a new round of sanctions coordinated with Western allies to “starve Putin’s war machine”. A f…

By Timothy Gardner and Noah Browning WASHINGTON (Reuters) -International Energy Agency states agreed to tap 60 million barrels of oil from storage, the director of the group said on Wednesday, on top of a 180 million-barrel release announced by Washing…

LONDON (Reuters) – Transgender women should not be competing in female sporting events, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told broadcasters on Wednesday. Johnson was speaking as the country looked set to abandon plans to hold a flagship conference d…

(Reuters) – Britain’s top homebuilder Barratt Developments Plc on Wednesday joined rivals in signing a government-mooted pledge to remove flammable roof coverings from buildings, which came into focus after the deadly Grenfell Tower fire in London in 2…

By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) -Russian far-right politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, known for provocative stunts and anti-Western tirades that kept him in the public eye for more than three decades, has died after a long illness, the speaker of parl…

(Reuters) – JetBlue Airways Corp’s $3.6 billion bid for low-cost airline Spirit Airlines caught Wall Street off guard on Wednesday, with analysts questioning the benefits of a merger between the two carriers. Though both carriers have a fleet dominated…

BELGRADE (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed expanding Moscow’s economic cooperation with Belgrade, including in the energy sector, with Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. In the wake of European…

By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – Waging a campaign against gangs responsible for El Salvador having one of the world’s highest murder rates, Congress in the Central American republic passed a bill on Tuesday criminalizing the publication of …

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Bundesbank is worried about banks lending to overextended buyers in an overheated property market and reserves the right to impose additional curbs, board director Joachim Wuermeling was quoted as saying on Wednesday. He to…