By Alexander Cornwell ABU DHABI (Reuters) -France is open to the United Arab Emirates investing in its nuclear energy industry, its finance minister said on Tuesday, ahead of discussions in the Gulf state with UAE officials. Sources told Reuters in March that the UAE had approached several European countries about investing in their nuclear power …
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By Daria Sito-Sucic SREBRENICA, Bosnia (Reuters) – Kada Hotic last saw her son, husband and brother on July 11, 1995, as Bosnian Serb forces swamped the United Nations “safe zone” of the town of Srebrenica, forcing thousands of panicked Muslims to flee. Shells exploded around Hotic and her family as they ran towards a U.N. …
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(Reuters) – Commuters in Paris faced major disruption on Tuesday as rail workers went on strike to pressure national railway operator SNCF ahead of closely watched labour negotiations for this year’s the Olympic Summer Games. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT SNCF, which operates rail traffic around Paris including large parts of the city’s RER commuter lines used …
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By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The British lawyer and prosecutor who helped end a U.S. policy against the International Criminal Court on Monday requested an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, putting his office back on a collision course with Washington. Karim Khan, who became chief prosecutor of the …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian military said on Monday it had taken full control of the settlement of Bilohorivka in Ukraine’s Luhansk region while the Kyiv military said fighting was going on in the area. The Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement its forces had taken up better positions in the area. Ukraine’s General …
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KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters in an exclusive interview in Kyiv on Monday that Ukraine’s Western allies were taking too long to make decisions on military support for his country. Following are key quotes from the interview: ON THE BATTLEFIELD “Currently the situation at the front is one of the most difficult …
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By Mike Collett-White, Dan Peleschuk and Sergiy Karazy KYIV (Reuters) – Western allies are taking too long to make key decisions on military support for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters in an exclusive interview in Kyiv on Monday. He also said he was pushing partners to get more directly involved in the war by …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -A Russian-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that called on all countries to prevent “for all time” the placement, threat or use of any weapons in outer space failed on Monday with the 15-member body split over the move. The draft failed to get the minimum nine votes needed: …
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(Reuters) – The head of Ukraine’s Russia-annexed Luhansk region said on Monday that Ukrainian shelling had damaged a fuel depot and triggered a fire in the town of Dovzhansk. It was the third such Ukrainian attack on depots in the region this month. Leonid Pasechnik, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said Ukrainian forces had …
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By Samia Nakhoul and Laila Bassam DUBAI(Reuters) – Hamas’ elusive military leader Mohammed Deif, one of the masterminds behind what Israel called its 9/11 moment, rarely speaks and never appears in public, a secretive existence that helped him survive seven assassination attempts. Now he is being sought outside of Gaza, from where he directed the …
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