MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia foreign ministry said on Wednesday it will summon Britain’s ambassador to Moscow over what it said was the involvement of British specialists in a Ukrainian drone strike on its Black Sea Fleet in Crimea.  Russia’s defense ministry said the attack was carried out under the guidance and leadership of British navy specialists, an assertion Britain has dismissed as false. “These actions were carried out under the guidance of British specialists,” Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters on Wednesday.

 

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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s coast guard said Wednesday it had recovered another 12 bodies from the area where a sailing boat sank the previous day with 68 refugees reportedly on board, bringing the confirmed death toll to 13. Dozens of people remain missing. A total of 12 people, all men, have been rescued and taken to the island of Evia, east of the Greek capital. The initial nine survivors, who had been picked up from an uninhabited islet shortly after the boat sank in the early hours of Tuesday, had told authorities they had set sail from Izmir, Turkey, with a total of 68 people on board.

 

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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Attackers suspected to be members of Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group have abducted two paramedics, plus a driver and a patient near Kenya’s border with Somalia, police said. The attackers ambushed an ambulance belonging to the regional county government of Mandera, north east of the country, as it transported the patient to a hospital in the county. “The .... ambulance was enroute to Elwak hospital for referral with a patient ... and ... in the company of hospital staff,” Mandera’s  While the frequency and severity of al Shabaab attacks in Kenya have reduced in recent years, the group has in the past targeted security personnel, schools, vehicles, towns and telephone infrastructure in north east and eastern Kenya as part of their campaign to pressure Kenya into withdrawing its forces from Somalia.

 

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COPENHAGEN (AFP) -Denmark’s left-wing bloc led by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen reached out to the centre for broader collaboration on Wednesday after winning a one-seat majority in a nail-biter general election. Frederiksen’s five-party “red” bloc had looked set to lose its majority as vote counting wore on throughout Tuesday evening, but as the last votes were tallied, the bloc eked out the 87 seats it needed in mainland Denmark. Together with another three seats from the autonomous overseas territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland, the bloc holds a total of 90 of parliament’s 179 seats.

 

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CARACAS/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Venezuela’s government and the country’s opposition plan to resume dialogues in Mexico as soon as this month after a long delay, and are expected to focus on negotiating conditions for a presidential election, four sources close to the talks said. Last year, delegations representing President Nicolas Maduro and the opposition led by Juan Guaido made no progress on resolving the nation’s deep political crisis, which has stoked a sometimes-chaotic migration wave of over 7 million people. “We are working on resuming the dialogue process in November,” said one of the people familiar with the arrangements. Maduro and Colombia President Gustavo Petro said in a joint statement on Tuesday they hoped for “a successful return” to the dialogues.