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Polish PM Tusk to discuss Ukraine with France’s Macron in Warsaw

WARSAW/PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Warsaw on Thursday to give a rundown on talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Paris last weekend, Poland’s prime minister said on Tuesday. “The day after tomorrow, President Macron will be here. He will want to inform about the results of …

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Zelenskiy urges allies for 10-12 more Patriot systems to fully protect Ukraine skies

By Yuliia Dysa and Sergiy Chalyi ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Ukraine’s allies on Tuesday to provide 10-12 more Patriot air defence systems that he said would fully protect its skies, after a Russian missile killed at least four people in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, …

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Greece faced 9,500 forest fires this year, says minister

ATHENS (Reuters) – About 9,500 forest fires, including one on the outskirts of Athens, consumed nearly 44,500 hectares of land this year, Greece’s hottest and driest on record, official said on Tuesday. Wildfires are common in the eastern Mediterranean country, but hotter, drier and windier weather that scientists link to the effects of fossil fuel-driven …

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EU foreign policy chief Kallas: legitimate concerns about Syrian sectarian violence

By Lili Bayer BRUSSELS (Reuters) – There are legitimate concerns about the risks of sectarian violence in Syria and a resurgence of extremism in the country, the European Union’s new foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday, while pointing to positive early signals. Syria’s new interim leader announced on Tuesday he was taking charge …

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Mosel river in Germany closed to shipping after lock accident

HAMBURG (Reuters) – The river Mosel in western Germany, an important route for grains and rapeseed shipments, has been closed to inland waterways shipping after an accident that damaged a lock, navigation authorities said. A lock at Mueden south of Koblenz has been damaged after a vessel collision and repairs are likely to last until …

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Poland protests over damage to monuments in Russia

WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland will send a note to Russian authorities to demand an inquiry into the devastation of monuments commemorating Polish Home Army soldiers in the town of Yogla in eastern Russia, the Polish foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Relations between Poland and Russia are tense, especially since Moscow invaded neighbouring Ukraine in 2022. “This …

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Death toll from blast at Eni fuel depot near Florence rises to five

By Silvia Ognibene FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) -The death toll from an explosion at an Eni fuel depot near Florence rose to five as the body of the last missing person was recovered, Italian investigative sources said on Tuesday. Monday’s blast in Calenzano, on the northern outskirts of the Tuscan regional capital, occurred in a loading …

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Analysis-Brazil’s left caught in the long shadow of ailing patriarch Lula

By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – Emergency surgery to relieve a cranial hemorrhage has raised questions in Brazil over President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s short-term agenda – and the vacuum he would leave on the left if he does not run for reelection in 2026. Lula, 79, Brazil’s most popular politician, is midway through …

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