AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A Dutch court on Wednesday sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison for joining Islamic State in Syria and keeping a Yazidi woman as slave. Prosecutors had asked for an 8-year sentence for the Dutch woman, 33-year old Hasna Aarab, but the District Court in The Hague said the gravity of …
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(Reuters) – The death toll from a Russian missile strike that destroyed a clinic in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday has risen to six, while four more people remain under the rubble, the regional governor and emergency services said on Wednesday. An additional 22 people were injured, governor Ivan Fedorov said on his …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Moscow was not ready to make concessions when it came to Ukraine and that President Vladimir Putin’s own proposals on how to end the conflict needed to be implemented. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova made her comments in the context of a call …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Nobel Peace Prize laureate and co-founder of Russian media outlet Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov on Wednesday dismissed a report from the state TASS news agency which said he had left Russia after being questioned about a colleague’s criminal case. “I express my condolences to colleagues forced to use information trash heaps,” Novaya …
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By Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Wednesday played down the damage to Russian influence in the Middle East from the fall of Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad, saying that its focus was on Ukraine and that Moscow was in contact with Syria’s new rulers. When Russia intervened in the Syrian Civil War in …
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By Maya Gebeily DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Two U.S. congressmen have urged senior American officials to suspend some sanctions on Syria to ease pressure on its shattered economy after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, according to a letter dated Dec. 10 and seen by Reuters. The move is the latest effort in the West to push …
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By Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is set on Wednesday to submit a request to parliament to hold a vote of confidence, the necessary precursor to holding new federal elections after the collapse of his coalition last month. Policymaking has largely ground to a halt since Scholz’s fractious …
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(Corrects day in first paragraph to Tuesday from Monday) BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romania’s pro-European parties reached a firm commitment late on Tuesday to form a governing majority that cordons off the hard right and potentially endorses a single candidate for a re-run of the country’s annulled presidential election. The ruling leftist Social Democrats won the most …
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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Wednesday called on the Syrian rebels who toppled the regime of President Bashar al-Assad to stabilise the country, and govern in a way that promotes national unity. “I hope they find political solutions that, without other conflicts or divisions, responsibly promote the stability and unity …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Wednesday accused the Ukrainian armed forces of attacking a car used to transport experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Dec. 10, saying someone could have been killed. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said on the day of the incident that a drone had hit and severely damaged …
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