(Reuters) – Russia introduced anti-terrorism measures early on Saturday in three regions bordering Ukraine, Russian news agencies quoted officials as saying. The agencies quoted regional governors or the National Anti-terrorism Committee as saying the special regime would apply to Kursk region, where Moscow says its forces have been battling a Ukrainian incursion, and Belgorod and …
By Humeyra Pamuk, Patricia Zengerle and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration has decided to lift a ban on U.S. sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, the State Department said on Friday, reversing a three-year-old policy to pressure the kingdom to wind down the Yemen war. The State Department was lifting its suspension …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France detected two new outbreaks of a new variant of bluetongue virus circulating in ruminants in northern Europe, prompting it to speed up and extend a vaccination campaign in the region, the farm ministry said on Friday. France reported a first outbreak of the BTV3 bluetongue disease on a sheep farm near …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont said on Friday that he was in Belgium and never had the intention of surrendering himself nor facilitating his arrest. “I’m in Waterloo after extremely difficult days,” he wrote on X. (Reporting by Ana Cantero; Editing by Leslie Adler)
PARIS (Reuters) – Grammy-nominated hip hop star Travis Scott was arrested on Friday at Paris’ luxury Georges V hotel for unspecified violence against a security guard, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. Police arrested Scott, 33, after the security guard had tried to break up a fight between the rapper and his bodyguard, prosecutors said, adding …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Grammy-nominated hip hop star Travis Scott was arrested on Friday at Paris’ luxury Georges V hotel for unspecified violence against a security guard, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. Police arrested Scott, 33, after the security guard had tried to break up a fight between the rapper and his bodyguard, prosecutors said, adding …
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KYIV (Reuters) – The Ukrainian military said on Friday it had hit a Russian military airfield in the Lipetsk region of western Russia overnight, damaging stockpiles of guided bombs and causing a series of detonations. Kyiv has been attacking Russian airbases to reduce Moscow’s ability to use its warplanes to strike targets in Ukraine and …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -The Delta Blue crude oil tanker reported a third and fourth incident in the last 24 hours off Yemen’s port of Mokha, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said on Friday. The crew and vessel are safe and proceeding to their next port of call, the UKMTO said in an advisory …
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BARCELONA (Reuters) – Catalan separatist party Junts on Friday said it would decide whether to keep its crucial parliamentary support for the central government in Madrid, as the situation in the wealthy northeastern region had “changed a lot”. Its secretary general, Jordi Turull, listed as factors influencing the decision the new Catalan government led by …
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By Alexandra Schwarz-Goerlich and Miranda Murray VIENNA (Reuters) -An Austrian teenager arrested over an alleged plot to strike a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna planned to carry out a suicide attack that would have caused a “bloodbath” and had vowed loyalty to Islamic State (IS), authorities said on Thursday. The 19-year-old man, who has North …
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