KYIV (Reuters) – A new U.S. weapons package is going to have an impact on the battlefield in Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday, visiting Kyiv at a time when Ukrainian forces have faced setbacks at the front after a long delay in U.S. aid. Washington finally passed a bill in late …
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By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) -Hundreds of university students in the Georgian capital walked out of classes on Monday, joining thousands of protesters opposing a bill on “foreign agents”, as the prime minister vowed parliament would pass the bill on Tuesday. The bill’s opponents have staged near-nightly protests for a month. A rally on Saturday …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The head of personnel at Russia’s Defence Ministry has been arrested on suspicion of bribery after more than $1 million in cash and valuables were discovered at his properties, investigators said on Tuesday. The arrest of Yuri Kuznetsov signals a widening of the biggest government corruption scandal in years, two days after …
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By Dawoud Abu Alkas, Nidal al-Mughrabi, Aidan Lewis and Saleh Salem AL-MAWASI, Gaza (Reuters) – Pupils sitting cross-legged on the sand take classes in a tent near Khan Younis in Gaza. Two sisters connect online to a West Bank school from Cairo. A professor in Germany helps Palestinian students link up with European universities. After …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli forces pushed deep into the ruins of Gaza’s northern edge on Monday to recapture an area from Hamas fighters, while in the south tanks and troops pushed across a highway into Rafah, leaving Palestinian civilians scrambling to find safety. Some of the most intense fighting for weeks is raging …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The University of Amsterdam on Monday said it would remain closed for two days after police moved in to end a pro-Palestinian protest at one of its campuses earlier on the day. The university’s board said it had cancelled all classes on Tuesday and Wednesday and would close all buildings as it said …
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CANNES (Reuters) – Mohammad Rasoulof, a celebrated Iranian director whose latest film is competing in the Cannes Film Festival, has fled Iran after being sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging. In a statement dated Sunday, Rasoulof said he was in an unspecified location in Europe. “I had to choose between prison and leaving …
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By Yuliia Dysa and Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) -Russia pressed its ground assault into the north of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Monday, attacking new areas with small groups to try to widen the front and stretch Ukrainian forces, the regional governor said. Moscow’s troops entered Ukraine near its second largest city of Kharkiv on Friday, …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia’s defense minister reshuffle was a further indication of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “desperation to sustain” his invasion of Ukraine, U.S. State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said on Monday. Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defense minister on Sunday in an attempt to gird Russia for economic war …
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MADRID (Reuters) – An unknown number of orcas have sunk a sailing yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain’s maritime rescue service said on Monday, a new attack in what has become a trend in the past four years. The vessel Alboran Cognac, which measured 15 metres (49 feet) …
