By Guy Faulconbridge and Olzhas Auyezov MOSCOW (Reuters) -An influential aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the West and the U.S.-led NATO alliance had helped to plan Ukraine’s surprise attack on Russia’s Kursk region, something Washington has denied. The lightning incursion, the biggest into Russia by a foreign power since World …
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PARIS (Reuters) -A pilot died on Friday after the Fouga Magister jet which he was flying during an airshow in Lavandou, southern France, crashed into the Mediterranean sea, said French authorities. “The body of the pilot has been recovered,” said the local authority responsible for the Var region in southern France. French authorities added that …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarusian Defence Minister Viktor Khrenin said on Friday that there was a high probability of an armed provocation from neighbouring Ukraine, the state-run Belta news agency reported. Khrenin’s comments came amid an ongoing Ukrainian incursion into Russia that began on Aug. 6 when thousands of Kyiv’s troops smashed through Russia’s western border. …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli army ordered a fresh evacuation of areas in southern and central Gaza previously designated as a humanitarian safe zone on Friday, saying the areas had been used by Hamas as a base for firing mortars and rockets towards Israel. It said warning flyers and text messages had been sent out …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine shot down all five Russia-launched drones during an overnight attack, the country’s air force said on Friday. Russian forces also used three ballistic Iskander-M missiles during the attack, according to the air force’s statement on the Telegram messaging app. Russia used three Shahed-type drones and two drones of an unidentified type for …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Danish biotech Bavarian Nordic said on Friday it had submitted data to the European Union’s drug regulator for approval to extend the use of the company’s mpox and smallpox vaccine to adolescents aged 12 to 17 years. Mpox has been declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization, with children …
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By Lisa Richwine, Jorge Garcia and Tyler Clifford LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Two doctors and three others including a personal assistant to Matthew Perry have been charged with supplying the “Friends” star with ketamine, the powerful sedative that caused his overdose death nearly a year ago, authorities said on Thursday. The defendants, including a woman known …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British and French foreign ministers will travel to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories to call for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza and a de-escalation in any wider conflict in the Middle East, Britain said on Thursday. The visit by Britain’s David Lammy and France’s Stephane Sejourne comes as a new round of …
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By David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department told the U.S. Congress on Thursday that Australia, Britain and the United States now have comparable export-control regimes, a significant step needed to facilitate technology sharing and allow the trilateral AUKUS defense pact to move ahead. AUKUS, formed in 2021 to address shared …
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By Lucy Papachristou LONDON (Reuters) – There is little about Marc Fogel’s past that could have predicted he would one day end up in a Russian prison. An American history teacher who made a career working at international schools across multiple continents, the 63-year-old had been a “happy-go-lucky” person since boyhood, the kind of educator …
