MOSCOW (Reuters) -An aborted 2022 peace deal between Russia and Ukraine could be the basis for new negotiations but there is no sign that Kyiv is ready for talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said that Russia and Ukraine were on the verge of agreeing a deal to …
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By Daphne Psaledakis, Polina Devitt and Paul Sandle WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) -Washington and London on Friday prohibited metal-trading exchanges from accepting new aluminum, copper and nickel produced by Russia and barred the import of the metals into the U.S. and Britain. The action is aimed at disrupting Russian export revenue amid Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, …
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By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) – The current chair of Europe’s biggest security body pledged on Friday to boost efforts to breathe new life into the process of resolving a three-decade-old dispute between Moldova and the ex-Soviet state’s pro-Russian separatist Transdniestria enclave. Ian Borg, Maltese Foreign Minister and Chair of the Organisation for Security and …
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By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) – German police cut the power and shut down a conference of pro-Palestinian activists on Friday after a banned speaker appeared by video link, organisers said. The three-day Palestine Congress, promoted by pro-Palestinian groups including former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis’s DIEM25 party, said it aimed to raise awareness of …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany warned its citizens to leave Iran, saying that there was a risk both of a sudden escalation in Tehran’s existing tensions with Israel and that Germans might be at risk of arbitrary arrest in the country. “In the current tensions, especially between Israel and Iran, there is a risk of a …
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MAJADAHONDA (Reuters) -Spain’s football establishment suffered another blow on Friday after a Spanish judge declared the main candidate to take over from disgraced former football federation boss Luis Rubiales is also under investigation in a corruption probe. Pedro Rocha had been summoned to testify as a witness on Friday at the Majadahonda court which is …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italian rescuers have found the bodies of the last two missing workers from an explosion at a hydroelectric plant near Bologna three days ago, a spokesperson for the fire brigade said on Friday, bringing the final death toll to seven. On Tuesday, a fire that broke out on a transformer and the …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russell Bentley, a U.S. national, is missing in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine, local police said on Friday, and a search is underway to try to find him. Bentley, born in 1960, a self-declared supporter of Russian-backed forces in Ukraine whom Russian state media have described as a war correspondent, reportedly went missing on …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia expelled a Slovenian diplomat in a tit-for-tat retaliatory move after Ljubljana ordered a Russian diplomat to leave, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Friday. In a statement, the ministry said it had also told Slovenia’s top envoy that Ljubljana was responsible for what it called the “destruction of bilateral relations” between the …
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By Cecile Mantovani and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber VEVEY, Switzerland (Reuters) – Stefanie Brander, one of the more than 2,000 women over 64 who won a court case against Switzerland over climate inaction, was on the frontlines of a protracted legal battle in which she said authorities showed little regard for the elderly plaintiffs. Europe’s top human …
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