(This Sept. 9 story has been corrected to replace Morus’ quote, and to fix his age from 24 to 27, in paragraph 3) By Aleksandar Vasovic BELGRADE (Reuters) – On a sweltering summer morning in Serbia’s capital Belgrade, Vadim Morus, a professional ice skater from Russia, glides across an outdoor rink. Morus is 1,000 miles …
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By Daphne Psaledakis and Simon Lewis LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russia has received ballistic missiles from Iran for its war in Ukraine, the United States said on Tuesday as it imposed fresh sanctions on ships and companies it said were involved in supplying Moscow with Iranian weapons. At a news conference in London ahead of a visit …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Lukoil is set to resume oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline to Slovakia and Hungary in October after Hungary’s MOL said it had struck deals to transport crude through Belarus and Ukraine via the pipeline, two sources said on Tuesday. The sources said the supplies would resume next month because this …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – A Swiss appeals court has overturned the acquittal of a prominent Islamic scholar on charges of rape and sexual coercion against a woman, Geneva’s cantonal government said on Tuesday. Tariq Ramadan is a grandson of Hasan al-Banna, an Islamist thinker and activist who founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. He has denied …
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(This Sept. 1 story has been corrected to fix the number of Israelis killed, in paragraphs 15 and 16) By James Mackenzie and Ali Sawafta JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Three Israeli police officers were killed on Sunday when their vehicle came under fire near the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Israeli officials said, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia reported new gains in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, saying Ukraine’s own incursion into Russian territory had failed to distract Moscow from pursuing its offensive in the Donbas region. State news agency RIA quoted Sergei Shoigu, secretary of the Security Council, as saying Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, beginning on Aug. …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A former salesman for a manufacturer of laser welding machines was arrested on Monday on charges that he conspired to evade U.S. export control laws in order to sell his company’s products to a division of the Russian state nuclear company Rosatom. Sam Bhambhani was charged in an indictment with …
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By Alexander Ratz and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s government announced plans to impose tighter controls at all of the country’s land borders in what it called an attempt to tackle irregular migration and protect the public from threats such as Islamist extremism. The controls within what is normally a wide area of free movement …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander denied reports that Iran was transferring missiles to Russia, Iranian media said on Monday, amid concern in the West that they could be deployed in the war in Ukraine. CNN and the Wall Street Journal reported last week, citing unidentified sources, that Iran had transferred short-range ballistic …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian forces pressed on with their advance on the eastern front in their 2-1/2-year-old war against Ukraine, capturing the village of Memryk, east of the city of Pokrovsk, the Defence Ministry said. Ukraine made no mention in accounts by the military’s General Staff of the village, lying in the front’s most hotly …
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