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(Reuters) – Three new Russian strikes injured two people and damaged infrastructure on Tuesday in a district of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, regional governor Oleh Synehubov said. Synehubov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the latest of three attacks on the city in a single day damaged dwellings and an educational institution. Two people …

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By Huseyin Hayatsever and Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey’s parliament ratified Sweden’s NATO membership bid on Tuesday, clearing the biggest remaining hurdle to expanding the Western military alliance after 20 months of delay. Turkey’s general assembly, where President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling alliance holds a majority, voted 287-55 to approve the application that Sweden first made …

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WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday pardoned two members of the former government, who were then released from prison at his urging, in line with demands from the main opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party that lost power last month. Former interior minister Mariusz Kaminski and his deputy Maciej Wasik were released …

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By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reassured Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal on Tuesday that the Biden administration was committed to securing $11.8 billion in budget support to Kyiv as part of a supplemental U.S. funding request. The Treasury said in a statement following a virtual meeting between the two officials …

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By Olena Harmash and Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Russia unleashed a mass air strike on Ukraine on Tuesday, local officials said, killing at least four people and wounding more than 60 others. The early-morning missile attack mostly targeted the country’s two largest cities, the capital Kyiv and Kharkiv in the east. Three people were killed …

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By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. and British forces carried out a fresh round of strikes on Monday in Yemen, targeting a Houthi underground storage site as well as missile and surveillance capabilities used by the Iran-aligned group against Red Sea shipping, the Pentagon said. The Houthis, who control the most populous …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO has signed a 1.1 billion euro contract for 155mm artillery ammunition, the alliance said on Tuesday, with part of the shells to be supplied to Ukraine after complaints a shortage of munitions was hampering its war efforts. “The war in Ukraine has become a battle of ammunition,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg …

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(Reuters) – Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been placed in solitary confinement for 10 days in a prison above the Arctic circle for “incorrectly introducing himself” to a guard, his spokesperson said late on Monday. Navalny, 47, a former lawyer who rose to prominence more than a decade ago by lampooning President Vladimir Putin’s …

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