KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s air force said on Monday it shot down six out of eight Russian-launched drones and two out of three missiles during an overnight attack over four Ukrainian regions. Kyiv authorities said an attack on the city, the fifth in September, had not done damage or caused injuries in the capital. Russia …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s energy ministry said on Monday that Russian forces had attacked energy facilities in seven regions in the space of 24 hours, in a statement on the Telegram messaging app. The statement did not detail the scale of damage at the facilities. (Reporting by Anastasiia Malenko; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
By Gergely Szakacs and Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Sunday that a new ministry would take charge of the economy and state finances as he gears up for the nomination of a new central bank governor to succeed his former ally, Gyorgy Matolcsy. In power since 2010, the …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romania and Latvia, both NATO members and supporters of Ukraine in its 2 1/2-year-old war with Russia, on Sunday were investigating instances of Russian drones that crashed after breaching their airspace, authorities in both countries said. The incidents prompted officials to call for measures to act jointly to counter Russia air incursions. NATO …
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(Reuters) -The governor of Russia’s southern Belgorod region said on Sunday Ukrainian forces attacked a fuel depot, triggering a series of fires after Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of launching overnight attacks on border regions. “The Ukrainian military, aided by lethal drones, attacked a fuel storage site in Volokonovsky district,” Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Sunday its forces had taken full control of a town in eastern Ukraine as Moscow’s forces advance on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk and seek to pierce the Ukrainian defensive front lines. Russian forces, which control about a fifth of Ukraine since invading in February 2022, are advancing in eastern …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -An Israeli airstrike on a house in Jabalia on Sunday killed Mohammad Morsi, deputy director of the Gaza Civil Emergency Service in the northern areas of the Gaza Strip, and four of his family, health officials said. The Civil Emergency Service said in a statement that Morsi’s death raised to …
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MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s coast guard recovered six bodies off the coast of Sicily, believed to be some of the 21 missing from a migrant shipwreck earlier this month, Italian media reported on Sunday. The Italian coast guard said on Wednesday that seven people, all male Syrian nationals, were picked up from a semi-sunken boat …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece plans to impose a 20-euro levy on cruise ship visitors to the islands of Santorini and Mykonos during the peak summer season, in a bid to avert overtourism, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday. Greece relies heavily on tourism, the main driver of the country’s economy which is still recovering …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appointed on Sunday former arms production minister Oleksandr Kamyshin as an external adviser for strategic issues, a decree published on the presidential website said. Kamyshin, who was the minister for strategic industries, resigned last week as a part of a Ukrainian government shake-up at a critical juncture in …
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