OSLO (Reuters) – Sweden’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that he expects that Hungary will soon approve the Swedish NATO membership application. “We welcome that Turkey has completed its ratification process, and expect Hungary to follow shortly,” Tobias Billstrom said in a speech to parliament. Hungary is the only NATO member that has not approved …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine is resuming its substantial electricity exports to neighbouring countries, taking advantage of lower domestic consumption due to mild weather, the energy ministry said on Wednesday. The country began electricity exports on the eve of the Russian invasion in 2022, but halted them after numerous Russian attacks on its power grid and …
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ZURICH (Reuters) -Adecco Group will help 85,000 refugees to find jobs and train 17,000 people by the end of 2027, the Swiss recruitment company said on Wednesday, raising its ambition from a previous target. The number of refugees in European countries rose to 12.4 million at the end of 2022 from 7 million at the …
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian forces destroyed the Russian Navy’s Tsezar Kunikov large landing ship off the occupied peninsula of Crimea in the Black Sea on Wednesday, Kyiv’s military said. A Ukrainian news outlet published several videos showing a column of smoke rising over the sea off the southern coast of Crimea, as well as helicopters flying …
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(Reuters) – Russia launched several missile attacks on the town of Selydove in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region overnight, killing three people, injuring a dozen and damaging a hospital and several apartments, Ukrainian officials said. “Three civilians were killed (one of them a child),” the press service of the city’s military administration said on the Telegram …
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(Reuters) – Russia’s parliament will vote on Feb. 21 on suspending the country’s participation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE), Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Tuesday. The OSCE, which counts Ukraine, the U.S. and Russia among its 57-members, is the successor to a Cold War-era organisation for Soviet …
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Two key groups of lawmakers at the European Parliament on Tuesday ratified a provisional agreement on landmark artificial intelligence rules ahead of a vote by the legislative assembly in April that will pave the way for the world’s first legislation on the technology. Called the AI Act, the …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Ukraine will need $9 billion over 10 years for its tourism sector to recover, the United Nations’ cultural agency said on Tuesday, adding that the two-year war had so far cost the country over $19.6 billion in tourism revenue. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022 triggered the deadliest conflict …
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(Reuters) – Ukraine Defence Minister Rustem Umerov and newly appointed armed forces commander Oleksandr Syrskyi discussed Kyiv’s military plans for 2024 with the supreme commander of the NATO Armed Forces in Europe and the commander of the Security Assistance Group Ukraine, Umerov said on Facebook on Tuesday. Colonel-General Syrskyi, who has led Ukraine’s ground forces …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations on Tuesday warned against an Israeli ground invasion of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, saying an offensive could “lead to a slaughter” in the southern region of the Palestinian enclave where more than 1 million people are sheltering. Israel says it wants to flush out …
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