MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia is open to a Slovakian proposal to host peace talks with Ukraine to end a conflict he said Russia was determined to bring to a conclusion. Putin, who this week hosted Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico in the Kremlin, said that Fico, an …
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By Joshua McElwee ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis made a visit on Thursday to one of the largest prison complexes in Italy, opening a special “Holy Door” for the 2025 Catholic Holy Year, in what the Vatican said was the first such action by a Catholic pontiff. Speaking to hundreds of inmates, guards and staff …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel struck multiple targets linked to the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen on Thursday, including Sanaa International Airport, and Houthi media said at least six people were killed. The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was about to board a plane at the airport when it came under …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s radar systems detected late on Thursday a small flying object, likely a drone, breaching national airspace up to 6 km inland in the southeastern county of Tulcea, the defence ministry said. The European Union and NATO state, which shares a 650 km (400 mile) border with Ukraine, has had Russian drone …
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By Riham Alkousaa and Timour Azhari DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syria’s new authorities on Thursday launched a security crackdown in a coastal region where 14 policemen were killed a day before, vowing to pursue “remnants” of the ousted Bashar al-Assad government accused of the attack, state media reported. The violence in Tartous province, part of the coastal …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Russian drones struck a multi-storey apartment building in the front line town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region of Ukraine on Thursday, killing two people and injuring two, regional prosecutors said. Chasiv Yar has been under attack by Russian forces for many months in Donetsk region, the focus of Russia’s drive westward to …
By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) – The Parliament in ex-Soviet Moldova, controlled by pro-Western lawmakers, approved a 10-year defence strategy on Thursday calling for increased defence spending as part of a plan to join the European Union. The chamber’s pro-Russian opposition ridiculed the document as pointlessly directed against Moscow in view of Moldova’s small land …
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By Essi Lehto and Andrius Sytas HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finnish authorities on Thursday seized a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea on suspicion it caused the outage of an undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia a day earlier, and that it also damaged or broke four internet lines. The Cook Islands-registered ship, named …
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnia’s Security Minister Nenad Nesic and six other people were arrested on Thursday on charges of organised crime including money laundering, abuse of office and acceptance of bribes, the state prosecutor’s office said in a statement. The state prosecutor and the Interior Ministry of decentralised Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic (RS) have been …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is set to visit Moscow on Jan. 17 and sign a cooperation agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian state news agency RIA cited Iran’s ambassador to Russia as saying on Thursday. Russia has cultivated closer ties with Iran and other countries hostile towards the U.S., such as …
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