MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) -Russian and Ukrainian troops fought battles on Tuesday in the ruins of Pokrovsk, a transport and logistics hub in eastern Ukraine that Moscow has been trying to capture for over a year. Ukraine’s military said fierce fighting was under way in a part of the city that was key for Kyiv’s frontline logistics. …
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(Reuters) -Russia is still awaiting U.S. clarification of President Donald Trump’s remarks on resuming nuclear testing, TASS state news agency cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying late on Tuesday. Trump had ordered in late October testing of nuclear weapons in the United States, saying the U.S. could not fall behind Russia and China. Peskov …
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PARIS (Reuters) -French judicial authorities said on Tuesday they had opened an investigation into Chinese social media platform TikTok and the risks that its algorithms could push young people to suicide. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said the probe was in response to a French parliament committee’s request to open a criminal inquiry into TikTok’s possible …
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By Yesim Dikmen CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (Reuters) -Pope Leo called on Tuesday for “deep reflection” about the way migrants are being treated in the United States under President Donald Trump’s administration and said the spiritual needs of those in detention needed to be respected. Speaking to reporters in Castel Gandolfo, his residence outside Rome, the …
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(Reuters) -Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday it struck an oil refinery in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region east of Moscow. The General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces, in a post on Telegram, said the military had hit the Lukoil refinery in the town of Kstovo. It said the facility provided supplies for the Russian military. The …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office said on Tuesday it had conducted an internationally coordinated action against alleged fraud and money laundering networks that compromised German payment service providers and racked up damages of hundreds of millions of euros. They said multiple people were arrested and searches occurred in Germany, Italy, Canada, Luxembourg, the …
(Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday praised some of Russia’s newest weapons, describing them as faster and more effective, capable of ensuring security and strategic parity and even of use in rare metals extraction and lunar missions. Putin extolled the qualities of the Burevestnik cruise missile and Poseidon super torpedo at a ceremony honoring the …
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By Katy Daigle, Simon Jessop and Kate Abnett BELEM/SAO PAULO (Reuters) -With a U.N. report warning that worldwide carbon emissions remain too high to halt global warming, Brazil’s president said on Tuesday that this month’s U.N. climate change summit in the Amazon would be a “COP of Truth” and offer real solutions. Despite three decades of …
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PARIS (Reuters) -Iran has released two French nationals imprisoned there for more than three years, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, in an apparent exchange for an Iranian student who was conditionally freed in October. Cecile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris, who had been detained since 2022, “are out of the Evin jail …
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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Meta Platforms on Tuesday rejected a ruling by the French rights watchdog against its algorithm after allegations of discriminatory job advertisements on its social network Facebook. The independent watchdog Defenseur des Droits (Defender of Rights) in an October 10 ruling said Meta’s system treats Facebook users differently because of …
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