By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday putting American troops on the ground in Ukraine to deter a potential Russian invasion was “not on the table” and he hoped to announce a meeting with Russia and other NATO countries by Friday. Biden said there would be high-level meetings with …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – A four-year-old Iraqi migrant girl went missing in an icy forest after being separated from her parents in a scuffle with Polish border guards, humanitarian groups said as they pressed for access to the border region to help find the child. Poland has sealed off the region along its frontier with Belarus …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Britain will provide Ukraine with an additional assistance of 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion). “Great news from London: UK will allocate an additional £1 billion in support for Ukraine. That means new investments, trade, security,” Zelenskiy wrote on Twitter. He said that with the …
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech government on Wednesday approved the deployment of up to 150 soldiers to help Poland stop the flow of migrants seeking entry from Belarus, a crisis the European Union has accused Minsk of engineering. The plan, subject to approval by parliament, would make the Czech Republic the third outside country to …
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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuania last week successfully tested a coupling of its power grid to the European continental system, boosting the country’s energy security, Energy Minister Dainius Kreivys said on Wednesday. Power grids of EU members Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are working in concert to those of Russia and Belarus, and depend on …
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By Charlotte Bruneau SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) – Exhausted after several failed attempts to enter Poland amid freezing temperatures, Saeed Jundi and his family of Iraqi Yazidis had just made it back to the Belarusian capital when he said security forces showed up at their rented apartment. When he confirmed the family was from Iraq, he …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – As Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers cross-examine her accusers, they face the difficult task of casting doubt on their credibility without seeming too aggressive toward women who say they were abused, legal experts say. Prosecutors have accused the British socialite of recruiting young girls to be sexually abused by financier Jeffrey Epstein, …
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PARIS (Reuters) – A Saudi man held at a Paris airport over suspected involvement in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was arrested in a case of mistaken indentity, a security source familiar with the investigation said on Wednesday. The Saudi Embassy in Paris said late on Tuesday the arrested person “has nothing to do …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will resume on Thursday in Vienna, a senior European Union official said. “The 7th round talks will continue tomorrow Thursday in Vienna after consultations in and among capitals,” Enrique Mora, who is chairing the talks, said on Twitter. “A Joint Commission and a number …
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By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) – A suspected member of Somali Islamist group al Shabaab detonated an explosive device that killed two people at their home in a western Kenyan village and himself, police said, outside the group’s usual of area of operations. If the affiliation between the suspect and the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab …
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