By Dmitry Antonov and Mark Trevelyan MOSCOW (Reuters) – A treaty that Russia and Iran intend to sign shortly will include closer defence cooperation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday. Military ties between the two countries are a source of deep concern to the West as Russia wages war in Ukraine while Iran …
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By Daren Butler and Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) – Growing regional instability and changing political dynamics have prompted the first bid in a decade to end Turkey’s 40-year conflict with Kurdish militants, but its chances of success are unclear as Ankara has given no clues on what it may entail. Several politicians and analysts told …
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By Dan Peleschuk (Reuters) – When he was asked to approach Ukrainian investigators with a $5 million bribe on behalf of a former top official in 2020, businessman Yevhen Shevchenko would have been entitled to a cut as the middleman. This month, he finally received his money – but from the Ukrainian government, in exchange …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – Medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday that one of its doctors working in a north Gaza hospital has been detained by Israeli forces. Mohammed Obeid, an MSF orthopaedic surgeon working at Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza, was detained during an Israeli military raid on the site on Oct. …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – German police are searching for a man who abandoned a bag of explosives at a Berlin train station and ran away after being stopped by federal officers, according to police. “We are investigating all possibilities,” a police spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday, adding that authorities had not yet been able to identify …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Thursday declined to comment when asked if Russia was helping North Korea to develop its missile and other military technology following a test launch by Pyongyang of an intercontinental ballistic missile. North Korea said it had tested the missile on Thursday, upgrading what it called the “world’s most powerful …
By Barbara Erling and Karol Badohal WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland is preparing to start talks on ordering over 100 HIMARS rocket launchers under a framework agreement with U.S. arms maker Lockheed Martin Corporation, a senior military official in the eastern-flank NATO country said. “In the near future, we will start negotiations for the first executive …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Thursday that Ukraine’s leadership was clearly nervous about Russian advances along the front line if Kyiv was asking the United States to supply it with long-range Tomahawk missiles. The New York Times reported that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had asked the United States for Tomahawk missiles, which have a …
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By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Failing to curb emissions of nitrous oxide will make it impossible to meet the main goal of the Paris climate agreement to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to the first major global assessment of the pollutant released on Thursday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Nitrous oxide is the …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russian forces attacked a strategic bridge across the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Estuary in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region overnight, launching two ballistic Iskander missiles and eight guided missiles, Kyiv’s military said on Thursday. The bridge is an important railway and car connection in the region and has been a target several times since Russia’s February …
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