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GENEVA, June 29 (Reuters) - Geneva Airport said some of its employees were planning to stage a strike on Friday that was likely to cause flight delays and cancellations at the start of the summer travel season.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres criticised on Wednesday what he called chronic underfunding of aid across the globe despite growing humanitarian needs.

Nearly 8,500 civilians are confirmed to have been killed in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a U.N. body said on Tuesday, with many thousands more unverified deaths still feared.

Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that Russia could resume spot gas sales after it finishes filling its storage reserves, a step that could ease pressure on prices in Europe. Novak did not say how soon or in what quantities such sales could take place, but the government has said it intends to keep topping ...

A Russian firm said on Friday it had begun trials of the Betuvax-CoV-2 vaccine against COVID-19, the second vaccine of its kind produced by a private Russian company, TASS news agency reported.

Police in Georgia detained four protesters on Friday outside a prison holding ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, local media reported, a week after he was jailed after returning from exile and calling for post-election protests.

Investigators in Russia's Orenburg region opened criminal cases on Thursday into the deaths of nine people from alcohol-poisoning this week after they consumed locally-produced spirits.

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By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read MOSCOW, April 26 (Reuters) - A Russian court has sentenced a Ukrainian citizen to 10 years for espionage after finding him guilty of trying to sell spare parts from a surface-to-air missile system to Ukraine, TASS news agency cited Russia’s FSB security service as saying on Monday. The FSB said the verdict against the man, identified as A.V. Marchenko, had been delivered by Southern Russia’s Krasnodar Regional Court and came into force after being confirmed by an...