MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin told Telegram owner Pavel Durov on Thursday to be more attentive after the messaging application was allegedly used to help recruit the gunmen who attacked a concert hall outside Moscow. Telegram, now based in Dubai, was founded by Durov, who left Russia in 2014 after he lost control of his previous …
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BRASILIA (Reuters) – The Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that the trade deal which Mercosur and the European Union blocs have been negotiating looks more promising than a previous version. In a press conference alongside France’s President Emmanuel Macron in Brasilia, Lula said Brazil intends to keep negotiating the potential …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – The spokesperson for Islamic State praised the group’s attack that killed more than 140 people in a Russian concert hall near Moscow. Abu Huthaifa al-Ansari was speaking in a recorded message posted on Thursday on the militant group’s Telegram channel. Al-Ansari also reiterated urging the group’s supporters to target “crusaders” everywhere, especially …
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By Sergio Goncalves and Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) -Economist Joaquim Miranda Sarmento was named Portugal’s new finance minister on Thursday as President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa approved the formation of a centre-right minority government. The Democratic Alliance (AD) coalition won a general election on March 10 by a slim margin over the outgoing Socialists, falling …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) has carried out searches as part of an investigation with other European security services into alleged Russian espionage, it said on Thursday. A hub for Western military supplies to Ukraine as it fights Russia’s invasion, Poland says it has become a major target of Russian spies. It accuses …
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(Reuters) – Leading Russian human rights group Memorial has warned that the health of its jailed 70-year-old head, Oleg Orlov, is deteriorating, accusing prison authorities of subjecting him to inhumane treatment. Orlov, a leader of Memorial which won a share of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, was sentenced last month to 2-1/2 years in …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – The governments of Poland and Ukraine meet in Warsaw on Thursday for talks they hope will help defuse a row over grain imports that has caused mass protests by farmers, but a top Polish official said a breakthrough was unlikely. Farmers in Poland and elsewhere in the European Union havebeen protesting to …
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(Reuters) – Kyrgyz people working in Russia are being actively targeted by recruiters of militant groups who want them to carry out violent acts, Kyrgyzstan’s labour ministry said on Thursday. Seven suspects from Tajikistan and one from neighbouring Kyrgyzstan have been arrested in connection with Friday’s mass shooting at a concert hall near Moscow. Hundreds …
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By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) – UBS will look to increase lending to the shipping sector and run off some loans to fossil fuel clients inherited from Credit Suisse, executives told Reuters, in the biggest test yet of the impact of a mega-merger on banks’ sustainability commitments. The shotgun marriage of Switzerland’s two biggest lenders …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian forces shot down 26 out of 28 attack drones launched overnight by Russia, Kyiv’s military said on Thursday. The Iranian-made drones were destroyed over parts of eastern, southern and southeastern Ukraine, the air force added. The Zaporizhzhia region’s governor said on Telegram that two women had been wounded when debris struck a …
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