KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine seized a foreign cargo ship in the Black Sea off its Odesa region and detained the captain on suspicion of helping Moscow export Ukrainian grain from Russian-occupied Crimea, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on Thursday. The vessel, which it did not identify, was travelling under the flag of a central …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday denounced NATO’s summit promise to grant eventual membership to Ukraine and said Russia should work towards the “disappearance” of both Ukraine and the military alliance. In a social media post, Medvedev quoted in English from NATO’s declaration at its Washington summit this week: “We will …
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – Residents of Gaza City were trapped in houses and bodies lay uncollected in the streets under an intense new Israeli assault on Thursday, even as Washington pushed for a peace deal at talks in Egypt and Qatar. Hamas militants say a massive Israeli assault on Gaza City this week …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Oleg Orlov, a veteran Russian human rights campaigner serving a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for speaking out against the war in Ukraine, told a court hearing on Thursday he stood by his denunciation of “mass repression” in Russia. Orlov, the 71-year-old co-chair of rights group Memorial, was found guilty in February of discrediting …
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By Timour Azhari ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Heading for Turkey to the north and Iran to the east, hundreds of oil tankers snake each day from near Kurdistan’s capital Erbil, clogging the Iraqi region’s often winding and mountainous highways. The tankers are the most visible aspect of a massive operation to truck oil from the …
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy returned to the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to cement relationships with lawmakers who will vote on future U.S. aid for his country, which could be in jeopardy if former President Donald Trump is reelected. Zelenskiy, who is in Washington for this week’s NATO summit, met …
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By Sabine Siebold WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new U.S. air defense base in northern Poland, designed to detect and intercept ballistic missile attacks as part of a broader NATO missile shield, is mission ready, the western military alliance announced on Wednesday. Speaking on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Washington, the alliance’s chief Jens …
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By Krisztina Fenyo and Anita Komuves BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian opposition politician Peter Magyar, the main challenger to Prime Minister Viktor Orban, is en route to deliver aid on Wednesday to the Kyiv children’s hospital hit during Russian airstrikes this week. Magyar’s Tisza party raised about 15 million forints ($41,276.83) and collected medical supplies and …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A backlog of 1,150 truckloads of humanitarian aid is waiting to be collected from the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, Israel said on Wednesday, prompting the United Nations to say: “We’re doing what we can.” COGAT, an Israeli defence ministry agency …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Hatem Khaled CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -An Israeli missile slammed into a tent encampment in southern Gaza on Tuesday just as displaced people had gathered there to watch a football match at a school, eyewitnesses said on Wednesday. At least 29 people, mostly women and children, were killed in the strike, according to …
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