By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote Friday on a Palestinian request for full U.N. membership, said diplomats, a move that Israel ally the United States is expected to block because it would effectively recognize a Palestinian state. The 15-member council is due to vote at 3 …
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(Reuters) – Russian air defence units on Wednesday downed 14 airborne targets over southern Belgorod region and a single drone over adjacent Voronezh region, regional officials said. Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the downed targets were aimed at the city of Belgorod and no injuries were reported. A Ukrainian …
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By Tassilo Hummel, Andrew Gray and Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union leaders met on Wednesday to discuss stepping up sanctions against Iran after Tehran’s missile and drone attack on Israel left world powers scrambling to prevent a wider conflict in the Middle East. The two-day summit in Brussels is the first meeting of the …
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By Antonio Bronic and Fedja Grulovic ZAGREB (Reuters) -Croatia’s ruling HDZ party was in the lead in a parliamentary election on Wednesday, according to preliminary official results from the country’s election commission, but exit polls suggested deals with other parties may be needed to form a governing coalition. The HDZ was on track to win …
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BATROVCI, Serbia (Reuters) -Kosovo said 10 off-duty police officers were detained on Wednesday in Serbia for questioning, including a deputy police commander, while passenger buses using Serbian territory as transit were halted for hours. “Ten Kosovo police officers, Albanians and Serbs, have been detained at border crossings…five of them have been released and five are …
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(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that the Ukrainian military had attacked a large Russian airfield in occupied Crimea and thanked his top military commander for staging the strike. “Today, the Ukrainian armed forces carried out a precise strike on the occupiers in Dzhankoi, on an airfield,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Wednesday that he would meet privately with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during his visit to New York. Nationalist Duda, whose term in office expires in 2025, was one of Trump’s preferred international partners during his presidency. “I was invited by Donald Trump to his private …
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ARROMANCHES-LES-BAINS, France (Reuters) – Eighty years on, Normandy’s beaches and fields still bear the scars of violence that erupted during World War Two on D-Day, history’s largest amphibious invasion on June 6, 1944, drone footage shows. Commemorations in June will mark the day when more than 150,000 allied soldiers invaded France to drive out Hitler’s …
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ATHENS (Reuters) -Ships remained docked at Greek ports and train services were halted on Wednesday as transport workers joined a 24-hour strike by private workers to demand higher pay to cope with rising living costs. Bus and taxi drivers also walked off the job for a few hours as part of the labour action called …
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KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian missile attack killed at least nine residents and damaged buildings and municipal infrastructure in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, local officials said. The city’s acting mayor, Oleksandr Lomako, said three explosions ripped through a busy part of the city just after 09:00 a.m. local time (0600 GMT), hitting …
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