(Reuters) -Austria plans to buy 12 Italian-made M-346 FA fighter jets to replace Saab 105 planes which it decommissioned at the end of 2020, the government said on Saturday. Citing military sources, newspaper Krone said a letter of intent was due to be signed on Saturday with the Italian Defence Ministry for the planes made …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko pardoned 20 people who were convicted of extremism, state media reported on Saturday. “All of them applied for pardon and repented of what they had done,” state news agency Belta said citing Lukashenko’s press-service. (Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Anastasia Teterevleva; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday it had foiled a plot by Ukraine to kill a high-ranking Russian officer and a pro-Russian war blogger with a bomb hidden in a portable music speaker. The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said that a Russian citizen had established contact …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and James Mackenzie CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces on Friday raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of three medical facilities on the northern edge of Gaza, ordering dozens of patients and hundreds of others to evacuate and leaving part of the site on fire, health ministry officials said. Elsewhere in Gaza, Israeli strikes …
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By Essi Lehto, Anna Ringstrom and Lili Bayer HELSINKI (Reuters) -NATO said on Friday it would boost its presence in the Baltic Sea after the suspected sabotage this week of an undersea power cable and four internet cables, while alliance member Estonia launched a naval operation to guard a parallel electricity link. Finland on Thursday …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A former engineer at a semiconductor manufacturer pleaded not guilty on Friday to U.S. charges that he illegally procured technology for an Iranian firm that made a key component of a drone used in a January attack by Iran-backed militants in Jordan that killed three U.S. service members. Mahdi …
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(Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump could become the first elected politician in modern history to be hosted for two state visits by the British royal family, The Telegraph reported on Friday. Downing Street and the Foreign Office are preparing to offer the incoming U.S. president an invitation once he is back in the White House, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – UAE airline flydubai has suspended flights from Dubai to the southern Russian airports of Sochi and Mineralnie Vody, the carrier said on Friday. Flydubai said the flights were suspended due to technical reasons, with flights to Sochi suspended until Jan. 2 and to Mineralnie Vody until Jan. 3. The airline’s statement comes …
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By Daphne Psaledakis and Felix Light WASHINGTON/TBILISI (Reuters) -The United States on Friday sanctioned Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, a former prime minister widely seen as the country’s de facto leader, saying he was undermining democracy and allowing Russia to benefit. Ivanishvili, who made billions in Russia in metals and telecoms in the 1990s, has spearheaded …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday dissolved Germany’s lower house of parliament to pave the way for snap elections on Feb. 23 following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-way coalition. “Especially in difficult times, like now, stability requires a government capable of acting, and reliable majorities in parliament,” which was why early elections …
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