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By Andrew Gray LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) -European Union ministers said on Monday they were looking urgently at how to provide more air defences to Ukraine but they stopped short of concrete pledges of the Patriot systems that Kyiv values most. Since Kyiv began a push for more Patriots in recent weeks, Germany has been the only …

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By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe is increasingly facing bouts of heat so intense that the human body cannot cope, as climate change continues to raise temperatures, the EU’s Copernicus climate monitoring service and the World Meteorological Organization said on Monday. In a report on Europe’s climate, Copernicus and the WMO noted last year’s …

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By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described as “extraordinary” on Monday a decision by social media platform X to challenge in court a cyber regulators’ order for the removal of some posts about the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney. Police have charged a 16-year-old with a terrorism offence in …

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KYIV/NEAR KUPIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – For the exhausted Ukrainian artillery gunners holding off Russian forces near the eastern town of Kupiansk, the U.S. aid package expected to finally pass this week is a lifeline and, potentially, a gamechanger, although that could take some time. “If they’d passed it (earlier), it would have changed the situation …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Three people died and two were injured in a fire that broke out at an electrical equipment plant in the Russian city of Voronezh on Monday, the emergencies ministry said. The cause of the fire at the plant, located about 220 km (140 miles) from the Ukrainian border, was unclear. (Reporting by …

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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Global military expenditure grew 7% to $2.43 trillion in 2023, the steepest annual rise since 2009 as international peace and security deteriorated, a leading think-tank said on Monday, The Stockholm International Peace Research InstitNATO spending target ute (SIPRI) said in a statement the United States, China and Russia were the top spenders in …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that the support of the United States, Britain and France for Ukraine was stoking serious strategic risks that had raised the risk of a direct confrontation between the world’s biggest nuclear powers. Lavrov said the United States and NATO were obsessed with the idea …

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By Mohammad Salem and Nidal al-Mughrabi RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO (Reuters) -A baby girl was delivered from the womb of a Palestinian killed along with her husband and daughter by an Israeli attack in the Gaza city of Rafah, where 19 people died overnight in intensified strikes, Palestinian health officials said. The dead, killed in hits …

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