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Germany doubles arms exports to Ukraine, halves them to Israel in 2024

18 Dec 2024

BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government has doubled its arms exports to Ukraine this year and halved them to Israel compared to 2023, data from the economy ministry showed on Wednesday. Being the main recipient country, Ukraine will have received weapons and other military equipment worth 8.1 billion euros ($8.48 billion), up from 4.4 billion …

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French Senate approves bill to roll over budget, thereby avoiding shutdown

18 Dec 2024

PARIS (Reuters) – The French Senate formally approved on Wednesday a special law designed to maintain core state functions and prevent any interruption of public services, following an earlier approval by the lower house of parliament last week. The law is intended to act as a stopgap until France’s deeply divided parliament passes next year’s …

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Leader of former Syrian opposition says transitional government should not exclude any party

18 Dec 2024

DUBAI (Reuters) – Hadi al-Bahra, head of the Syrian National Coalition that grouped opponents of Bashar al-Assad during the civil war, said on Wednesday Syria’s transitional government should be credible and not exclude any Syrian party or be based on sectarianism. In a seismic moment for the Middle East, Syrian rebels seized control of Damascus …

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Germany rejects UniCredit’s latest Commerzbank stake hike in strongest rebuke yet

18 Dec 2024

By Valentina Za, Rachel More and Tom Sims MILAN/BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany rejected UniCredit’s latest Commerzbank stake increase as an “uncoordinated and unfriendly approach” on Wednesday, strongly rebuking the Italian bank. UniCredit, which angered Berlin when it emerged as Commerzbank’s biggest private investor in September, said it had raised its stake in Commerzbank to 28% using …

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Russia detains suspect over murder of chemical weapons chief Igor Kirillov

18 Dec 2024

By Andrew Osborn and Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Wednesday it had detained an Uzbek man who had confessed to planting and detonating a bomb which killed a top general, Igor Kirillov, in Moscow on the instructions of Ukraine’s SBU security service. Kirillov, who was chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection …

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Destruction omnipresent in Mayotte, less so the French state, locals say

18 Dec 2024

By Tassilo Hummel and Antoine Demaison DOUJANI, Mayotte (France) (Reuters) – The destruction wreaked by cyclone Chido on Mayotte can be seen across France’s Indian Ocean archipelago. In the hillside shantytowns where the storm hit hardest, police, emergency workers and French officials are harder to find, locals said. The sound of hammers and saws was …

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Russian minister says Moscow can definitely work with Trump administration

18 Dec 2024

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia can definitely work with the administration of Donald Trump after he is sworn in as U.S. president next month, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday. Ryabkov reiterated accusations by Moscow that “reckless” actions by the West had raised the risk of nuclear war and described the global security as …

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Polish airport to drop Chinese Nuctech scanners due to security concerns

18 Dec 2024

WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s Warsaw Chopin airport will remove security scanners manufactured by Chinese company Nuctech over security concerns, an airport official said on Wednesday. The decision was based on an analysis by the Civil Aviation Authority, which voiced the security issues, said Piotr Rudzki, head of the airport’s communication department. “Just like the later …

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Dutch, Finnish, Swedish jets intercept Russian aircraft over Baltic Sea, says Dutch defence minister

18 Dec 2024

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Netherlands, in coordination with Finland and Sweden, has intercepted Russian aircraft carrying supersonic missiles over the Baltic Sea on Tuesday, Dutch Defence Minister Ruben Brekelmans said on X on Wednesday. No further details were provided on the engagement or the aircraft’s intentions. Since December, Dutch F-35s have been patrolling NATO’s eastern …

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Irish parliament vote points to centre-right coalition with independents

18 Dec 2024

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s two main centre-right parties moved closer to securing a coalition deal with a group of mostly conservative independent lawmakers on Wednesday as they helped elect one of the group as speaker of the lower house of parliament. In Ireland’s Nov. 29 election, the Fine Gael party of prime minister Simon Harris …

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