BERLIN (Reuters) -NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will take over from German diplomat Christoph Heusgen as chair of the Munich Security Conference, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. The event, known as the “Davos for defence”, is a major international forum for political and military leaders and takes place once a …
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(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that he and International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan had discussed how to ensure that arrest warrants for Russian officials wanted for war crimes in Ukraine are implemented. “It is crucial to comply with the Rome Statute and ensure that court decisions on arrest warrants for …
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli military on Thursday named nine men it said were Hamas militants killed in Gaza airstrikes that the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said had left six of its staffers dead. The military said three of the Hamas men had doubled as UNRWA workers. Reuters was unable to independently verify their …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish lawmakers tasked with investigating government accusations that central bank Governor Adam Glapinski may have broken the law aim to start hearings from witnesses this month, the head of the parliamentary committee said on Thursday. National Bank of Poland (NBP) governor Glapinski faces accusations including that he lacked independence from the previous government, …
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By Andrew Osborn and Guy Faulconbridge (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the West would be directly fighting with Russia if it allowed Ukraine to strike Russian territory with Western-made long-range missiles, a move he said would alter the nature and scope of the conflict. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been pleading …
By Daphne Psaledakis, Barbara Erling and Simon Lewis WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland added its voice on Thursday to calls to allow Ukraine to fire Western-supplied missiles deep into Russia as it hosted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken for talks in Warsaw. Kyiv has been pressing the Biden administration and other Western governments to authorise long-range …
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PARIS (Reuters) -Around 80 villagers were evacuated as a wildfire raged in the mountains of southwestern France on Thursday, authorities said. The fire broke out mid afternoon and spread across 400 hectares of ground in the Pyrenees-Orientales department, the local prefect’s office said. There were no immediate reports of damage to property, or of injuries …
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ATHENS (Reuters) -Experts will this week resume a risky operation to salvage the Sounion tanker that was repeatedly attacked by Yemen’s Houthis in the Red Sea last month and still holds about one million barrels of crude oil, maritime sources said on Thursday. The towing of the 900-foot (274.2-metre), Greek-registered vessel – which was struck …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary is ready to sue the European Commission to reimburse the costs of protecting the European Union’s external border, which Budapest says has cost it some 2 billion euros ($2.20 billion), Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff said. Nationalist Orban closed down a major transit route through Hungary for hundreds of thousands …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russian drones inflicted significant damage to the northern Ukrainian town of Konotop’s energy infrastructure in an overnight attack that injured at least 14 people and cut electricity to the settlement, local officials said on Thursday. Rescuers were working to restore power in the town, which had a pre-war population of about 83,000. …
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