By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for top Russian commanders Sergei Kobylash and Viktor Sokolov for suspected war crimes in Ukraine, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The ICC, based in The Hague, said there were reasonable grounds to believe that the two …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – An electricity pylon caught fire near Tesla’s German plant on Tuesday, police said, knocking out power in the area. Tesla was not immediately available to comment on a report in the BZ newspaper that the fire had forced the electric vehicle (EV) maker’s Gruenheide factory to halt production. Police said the fire …
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By John Revill BERN (Reuters) – Swiss weapons exports fell by more than a quarter last year, the government said on Tuesday, with critics blaming the country’s neutral stance which has blocked the re-export of Swiss-made guns and ammunition to Ukraine. War material exports fell 27% to 696.8 million Swiss francs ($788.06 million), the State …
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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign ministry on Tuesday accused Western ambassadors in Moscow of meddling in Russia’s internal affairs and said their behaviour raised questions about the point of such envoys. The war in Ukraine has triggered the deepest crisis in Russia’s relations with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis …
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By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission will propose on Tuesday ways for the European Union to boost its arms industry so it can shift to “war economy mode” in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Thierry Breton, the European industry commissioner, will lay out proposals to encourage EU countries to buy more …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said that German journalists would have to leave Russia if Berlin took measures against Russian journalists in Germany, RIA news agency reported. (Reporting by Reuters; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union has reached a provisional deal on a new law to cut packaging waste and ban single-use plastics, such as supermarket bags for fruit and mini hotel shampoo bottles in hotels, albeit with exemptions for certain sectors. The European Commission proposed a revamp in 2022 of rules governing packaging waste, which …
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By Bassam Masoud and Mohammed Salem RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) -Two Palestinian toddlers with sunken eyes and emaciated faces, one in a yellow cardigan and the other in a stripy top, were lying side by side on a bed in a Gaza clinic, their thin, bony legs protruding from diapers that looked too big for …
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(Reuters) – New car registrations in Britain rose more than 10% from a year earlier, recording the best February in two decades, preliminary industry data showed on Tuesday. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) also said market share of battery EVs reached about 17% last month and the industry body called for “fairer” …
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(Reuters) – The Communists of Russia party has asked the FSB security service and top prosecutors to investigate the possible involvement of Western intelligence services in the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, RIA news agency reported on Tuesday. “The party appealed to the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation and the …
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