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(Reuters) – A preliminary analysis concluded that Russia hit Kyiv last week with the hypersonic Zircon missile, its first use in the nearly two-year-old war, the head of a Kyiv research institute said on Monday, presenting a new challenge to Ukraine’s air defences. Oleksandr Ruvin, director of the Kyiv Scientific-Research Institute for Forensic Examinations, said …

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By Andrew Gray and Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump raised a storm of criticism from the White House and top Western officials for suggesting he would not defend NATO allies who failed to spend enough on defence and would even encourage Russia to attack them. Here are the answers to …

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By John Irish LA CELLE SAINT-CLOUD, France (Reuters) – France, Poland and Germany accused Russia on Monday of putting together an elaborate network of websites to spread pro-Russian propaganda to undermine their governments, warning of a mass spread of such content ahead of EU elections in June. Western nations have repeatedly accused Russian operatives of …

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(Reuters) -Kyiv urged Warsaw on Monday to “hold to account” Polish farmers for stopping three trucks at a border crossing between Poland and Ukraine and spilling the Ukrainian grain they were carrying. Sunday’s incident near the Yahodyn-Dorohusk checkpoint, reported by the Polish news agency PAP, came during a wider protest by Polish farmers against European …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Israel should stop and think seriously before taking any further action in Rafah, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on Monday, after airstrikes in the southern Gaza city that is the last refuge of about a million displaced civilians. Local health officials said 67 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in the …

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By Saleh Salem RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) – The long queue of anxious parents waiting outside paediatrician Rajaa Okasha’s tent shows how badly his voluntary services are needed after four months of an Israel assault on Gaza that has been especially hard for children. Working all day under canvas on the sandy ground with hardly …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO cannot be an ‘a la carte’ military alliance dependent on the whims of the U.S. president, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday, as he responded to comments made by Donald Trump regarding NATO over the weekend. Former U.S president Trump had suggested the United States might …

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