KYIV (Reuters) -The Ukrainian military said it had carried out a high-precision strike on Thursday on a Russian command post in Maryino, in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces hold chunks of territory after a major incursion. The Russian military said air defence units had downed four Ukrainian missiles in the region, and the regional …
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(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump could be decisive in the outcome of the 34-month-old war with Russia and help stop Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin. Zelenskiy, facing advances by Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, said in an interview with Ukrainian television that Trump had told him he would …
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By Charlotte Van Campenhout AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A Dutch project called ‘War in Court’ digitally released a list of names of nearly half a million suspected wartime Nazi collaborators on Thursday after the expiry of a law that had restricted public access to the archive. The archive, consisting of 32 million pages, includes about 425,000 …
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnia’s international peace envoy on Thursday sought to keep the country’s European Union integration on track by rejecting the Serb Republic parliament’s orders last week that would have blocked progress. The lawmakers in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated regional parliament last week ordered Serb delegates in the central government to block legal reforms needed for …
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By Elisa Anzolin and Giulia Segreti MILAN (Reuters) -Italian designer Rosita Missoni, co-founder of the eponymous fashion house known for its bright and patterned styles, has died at the age of 93, the family-owned company said on Thursday. A Missoni statement said Rosita “passed away peacefully on January 1, 2025,” calling her “a visionary figure …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian investigators have determined that an oil spill from two tankers in the Black Sea last month was smaller than initially thought, the Transport Ministry said on Thursday. The oil leaked from two ageing tankers that were hit by a storm on Dec. 15. One sank and the other ran aground. More …
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By Stevo Vasiljevic CETINJE, Montenegro (Reuters) -A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before turning his gun on himself early on Thursday, authorities said, in one of the Balkan nation’s worst mass killings. The attacker, named by police as 45-year-old Aco Martinovic, initially shot dead four people …
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By Jan Lopatka (Reuters) -Slovakia’s coalition government will discuss retaliatory measures to take against Ukraine after it halted the flow of Russian gas through its territory to Slovakia, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Thursday. Fico said in a video message posted on Facebook that his Smer party would consider cutting electricity supplies to …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel’s military said on Thursday its special forces had raided an underground missile production site in Syria in September that it said was primed to produce hundreds of precision missiles for use against Israel by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah. The complex near Masyaf, close to the Mediterranean coast, was “the flagship of Iranian manufacturing …
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HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland’s national power grid operator said on Thursday it had asked a Helsinki court to seize the Eagle S oil tanker in a bid to secure the company’s claim for damages related to the breakdown of the undersea Estlink 2 electricity interconnector. The cable between Finland and Estonia was damaged on Dec. 25 …
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