KYIV (Reuters) – An explosion rang out across the region outside the Ukrainian capital on Friday, a Reuters witness said, following an air raid siren and warnings by the military of a possible Russian missile attack. “Air defence forces are working in Kyiv region. Stay in your shelters! The missile danger continues,” Mayor Vitali Klitschko …
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By Andrea Shalal BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a 10-year bilateral security agreement on Thursday aimed at bolstering Ukraine’s defense against Russian invaders and getting Ukraine closer to NATO membership. The deal, signed on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Italy, aims to commit future …
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(Reuters) – Moldovan prosecutors said on Thursday they opened a criminal case against the former chief of general staff of Moldova’s armed forces following a media report alleging he had spied for Russia. The Insider, a Russian investigative outlet, in cooperation with Moldovan publication Malenkaya Strana reported last week that former army official Igor Gorgan …
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By John Irish BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy (Reuters) – When French President Emmanuel Macron arrived at the luxury Borgo Egnazia Italian resort on Thursday for the annual Group of Seven G7 leaders summit, he could have been forgiven for seeming a little downcast. But after dissolving parliament and plunging France into a rocky political period just …
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SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB party won 68 seats in the 240-seat parliament on Sunday and will need at least two coalition partners to form the cabinet, state election commission results on Thursday evening showed. The Movement for Rights and Freedom (MRF), mainly representing Bulgaria’s large ethnic Turkish minority, won 47 seats while pro-Western …
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By Crispian Balmer and John Irish BARI, Italy (Reuters) -Italy has demanded the removal of a reference to “safe and legal abortion” from the final statement of this week’s Group of Seven summit, diplomats said on Thursday, drawing a rebuke from French President Emmanuel Macron. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni swiftly shot back, accusing Macron …
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By Dmitry Antonov and Nelson Acosta MOSCOW/HAVANA (Reuters) – Russia said on Thursday that the United States should not be nervous about Russian warships in Cuba but that the West appeared deaf to any diplomatic signals from Moscow and only took notice when the army or navy took action. A Russian navy frigate and a …
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(Reuters) – Washington imposed new sanctions on Wednesday on the Moscow Exchange and its clearing agent, the National Clearing Centre (NCC), leading to an immediate trading halt in dollars and euros on Russia’s largest bourse. The U.S. Treasury said it was “targeting the architecture of Russia’s financial system, which has been reoriented to facilitate investment …
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BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy (Reuters) – The United States, France and Israel have agreed to work together to step up efforts to push forward a roadmap presented by Paris earlier this year to defuse tensions between Hezbollah and Israel, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday. France and the United States have in recent months worked …
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(Reuters) -Hungary must pay a 200-million-euro ($216 million) fine for not implementing changes to its policy of handling migrants and asylum seekers at its border, the European Union’s top court said on Thursday. “The decision is outrageous and unacceptable,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a Facebook post. Budapest’s nationalist government, which has previously refused …
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