SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil planemaker Embraer signed a contract to sell 12 A-29N Super Tucano aircrafts to the Portuguese government, the company said in a statement on Monday. The A-29N Super Tucano is a training and light attack aircraft. The version purchased by the Portuguese government is a new version of the A-29 Super …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Hussam al-Masri CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) – Relatives of Palestinians killed by Israel in Khan Younis gathered around their white-shrouded bodies on Monday before carrying them to their graves. Palestinian health officials said on Sunday at least 20 people, including children, were killed in the strike at the school sheltering displaced families in …
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By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The family of a Turkish-born American human rights activist killed by Israel in the occupied West Bank pleaded with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday for a U.S. probe into her killing but got no promises, the woman’s husband said. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot dead on Sept. …
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By Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian authorities sought to limit the damage on Monday from oil spilled into the Kerch Strait by two ageing tankers that were damaged during a heavy weekend storm, highlighting the environmental and insurance risks of Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’. One crew member was killed after the Volgoneft 212 split in half, …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s Bashar al-Assad issued his first statement since being toppled from power, saying he was evacuated to Russia from the Hmeimim base on Dec. 8 as it came under drone attack, after leaving Damascus that morning with rebel fighters closing in. His written statement was published on the Syrian presidency’s Telegram channel …
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By Andrius Sytas TALLINN (Reuters) – Twelve Western countries have agreed measures to “disrupt and deter” Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of vessels in order to prevent sanctions breaches and increase the cost to Moscow of the war in Ukraine, Estonia’s government said on Monday. The measures were agreed by Germany, Britain, Poland, the Netherlands, the …
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By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union should be ready to ease sanctions on Syria if the country’s new leadership takes “positive steps” to establish an inclusive government and respect women’s and minority rights, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday. Many EU foreign ministers at a meeting in Brussels on Monday …
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By Lili Bayer BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday that the bloc should suspend visa-free travel for Georgian officials holding diplomatic passports following a crackdown in Georgia on pro-EU protests. “The situation is not going to a positive direction for the Georgian people,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told reporters …
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By Andrew Osborn and Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s defence minister said on Monday that Moscow must be ready to fight the NATO military alliance in Europe in the next decade, as President Vladimir Putin said he believed the Ukraine war was turning in Moscow’s favour. Andrei Belousov, Putin’s defence chief, cited a NATO summit …
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By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he would talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy about bringing the war in Ukraine to an end, saying he is troubled by images of carnage from the conflict. “It’s got to stop,” Trump …
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