(Reuters) – Russian attacks on the cities of Zaporizhzhia and Kryvyi Rih in southeastern Ukraine on Friday killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 40, regional officials said. A strike on a car repair shop in Zaporizhzhia turned the facility into a giant fireball and killed 10 people, the regional governor said. Media …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Clashes broke out between police and protesters in Athens on Friday after thousands marched to mark the 16th anniversary of the police killing of a teenage boy, whose death triggered Greece’s worst riots in decades. About 5,000 people joined the annual march to commemorate the fatal shooting of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, who was …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of medium-range air-to-air missiles to the Netherlands for an estimated cost of $807 million, the Pentagon said on Friday. The principal contractor for the sale will be RTX Corp, the Pentagon said in a statement. (Reporting by Costas Pitas and Ismail Shakil)
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli forces stormed into Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in north Gaza on Friday and expelled some staff and displaced people before withdrawing, and bodies of people killed by airstrikes littered the streets outside, its director said. The attack had begun with a series of airstrikes on the western …
By Alexander Cornwell, Francois Murphy and John Irish MANAMA/VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran is “dramatically” accelerating its enrichment of uranium to up to 60% purity, close to the roughly 90% level that is weapons grade, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi told Reuters on Friday. The International Atomic Energy Agency later confirmed in a confidential report …
PARIS (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will travel to Paris to attend the re-opening of Notre-Dame cathedral on Saturday, and could use the trip to hold talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, two diplomatic sources said. There were efforts to arrange the meeting between Zelenskiy and Trump, who is also attending the celebrations, the …
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By Lucinda Elliott, Lisandra Paraguassu and Philip Blenkinsop MONTEVIDEO/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union and South America’s Mercosur bloc dragged a long-delayed free trade deal over the line on Friday, announcing an agreement – at least in principle – on the pact that has deeply divided nations in Europe. In a press conference in Montevideo, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Mike Tyson is being sued in a London court for nearly 1.5 million euros ($1.59 million) for allegedly breaking a deal to promote a gambling company in order to fight social media influencer-turned-prizefighter Jake Paul. Medier, a Cyprus-registered company that promotes online casino and betting company Rabona, is suing the former heavyweight …
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By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia’s capital Tbilisi has resounded with the crackle of fireworks late into the night for the past week – their eruptions becoming a symbol of the large pro-EU protests that have plunged the South Caucasus country into crisis. With riot police using water cannon, tear gas and mass arrests …
By Lucy Papachristou and Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia could deploy its new Oreshnik intermediate-range hypersonic missile on the territory of its ally Belarus in the second half of next year. Putin was responding to a request from Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at a summit in Minsk, where …
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