By Samia Nakhoul, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Saleh Salem DUBAI/CAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) – Israel and Hamas as well as Qatari mediators all sounded notes of caution on Tuesday about progress towards a truce in Gaza, after U.S. President Joe Biden said he believed a ceasefire could be reached in under a week to halt the …
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By Karol Badohal WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday he could not rule out widening a national ban on imports of Ukrainian grains to other products if the European Union does not act to protect the bloc’s markets. Tusk made the remarks during a visit to Prague as thousands of Polish …
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By Andreas Rinke and Guy Faulconbridge BERLIN/MOSCOW (Reuters) -The United States and key European allies said on Tuesday they had no plans to send ground troops to Ukraine, after France hinted at the possibility, and the Kremlin warned that any such move would inevitably lead to conflict between Russia and NATO. French President Emmanuel Macron …
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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Apple is set to be handed an EU antitrust fine of about 500 million euros ($543 million) next week in a music streaming case triggered by a Spotify complaint, sources said. The European Commission last year charged the iPhone maker with preventing Spotify and other music streaming firms …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy held talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and praised the kingdom’s efforts in seeking a solution to end Russia’s two-year-old invasion of Ukraine. A statement on Zelenskiy’s website said the two men discussed Kyiv’s Peace Formula for ending the conflict and the president …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Daniela Klette, a member of Germany’s notorious Red Army Faction militant group, was arrested in Berlin on Monday after decades on the run from armed robbery and attempted murder charges. Klette, 65, a member of the so-called third generation of the militant group, has long been sought alongside two other members of the …
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(Reuters) -A lawyer for Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who accompanied Navalny’s mother last week as she fought to get authorities to hand over his body, was briefly detained on Tuesday in Moscow, Russian news media said. The lawyer, Vasily Dubkov, later told independent news outlet Verstka that he had been released. Verstka said he …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Leonid Volkov, a close ally of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said that a protest called for March 17, the final day of Russia’s presidential election, would be Navalny’s “last testament”. Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony on Feb. 16. In a post on social media on Feb. 1, …
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TBILISI (Reuters) – A court in Grozny, capital of the Russian region of Chechnya, on Tuesday sentenced a Russian man to three-and-a-half years in prison for burning a Koran, Russian state news agency TASS reported. Nikita Zhuravel, 20, was detained in May 2023 under a law against offending religious believers’ feelings after he burned a …
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By Michel Rose and John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron opened the door on Monday to European nations sending troops to Ukraine, although he cautioned that there was no consensus at this stage as allies agreed to ramp up efforts to deliver more munitions to Kyiv. Some 20 European leaders gathered in Paris …
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