By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -Talks between Austria’s two main centrist parties on forming a coalition government without the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) collapsed on Saturday, prompting conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer to announce he would step down. A day earlier a third party, the liberal Neos, walked away from the talks, blaming the other parties …
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KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian guided bomb attack on Saturday wounded 10 people, including two children, in a village in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, near the Russian border, local authorities said. The region borders Russia’s Kursk region and has been regularly shelled by Russian forces for months. Video posted by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy showed parts of …
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(Reuters) -Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday it had thwarted a large attack in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg and detained four teenagers it said had been planning to detonate a bomb in a crowded area. The FSB said it had seized components for a homemade explosive device and that investigators in the …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Two men have been arrested after French police seized more than two tonnes of cocaine with an estimated value of 130 million euros ($134 million) at the port of Le Havre, said police on Saturday. WHY IT MATTERS: France and other European governments are trying to clamp down on drug trafficking gangs, …
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By Stevo Vasiljevic PODGORICA (Reuters) -Hundreds of Montenegrins protested in the capital Podgorica on Friday against what they see as a lack of action by authorities to prevent a mass shooting in which a gunman killed 12 people and seriously wounded four. In one of the Balkan nation’s worst mass killings, 45-year-old Aco Martinovic went …
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(Reuters) -Attacks on both sides of the Ukraine-Russia border killed three people on Friday, local officials said. Three missiles hit a residential area near the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, killing one person, injuring five others and destroying two houses, they said. A picture posted by the regional governor showed the shattered facade of a …
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(Reuters) – Russia’s defence ministry said on Saturday that Russian forces had taken control of the village of Nadiya in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region and had shot down eight U.S.-made ATACMS missiles. Reuters could not immediately verify the battlefield reports. The ministry said its air defence systems had shot down 10 Ukrainian drones over Russian …
KYIV (Reuters) – Russian forces continue to launch attacks near the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in an effort to bypass it from the south and cut off supply routes to Ukraine’s troops, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday. The capture of the road and rail hub in the eastern Donetsk region could create serious difficulties …
(Reuters) – Russia’s Pulkovo airport in St Petersburg temporarily halted flight arrivals and departures from 7:45 a.m. (0445 GMT) on Saturday to ensure the safety of civilian aircraft, Russia’s aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia said. It did not specify a reason for the decision to halt flights, but Russian airports have previously closed when there is a …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Moldova faces a security crisis, Prime Minister Dorin Recean said on Friday after its separatist pro-Moscow Transdniestria region, cut off from supplies of Russian gas, closed factories, restricted central heating and imposed rolling power blackouts. Flows of Russian gas via Ukraine to central and eastern Europe were halted on New Year’s Day after …
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