By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) – A senior official of Moldova’s pro-European government said on Wednesday that his latest talks with the pro-Russian separatist Transdniestria region had been “quite difficult” as tension rises in the three-decade-old standoff. The region split from Moldova before the collapse of Soviet rule and fought a brief war against the …
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By Arafat Barbakh, Tyrone Siu and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER/DOHA (Reuters) -Israel pressed its assault on Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Wednesday, sending tanks westwards and prompting accusations from Jordan that its field hospital in the city had been badly damaged by nearby shelling. The Jordanian army said it held Israel responsible for a …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Sweden has summoned the Iranian chargé d’affaires to demand the immediate release of Swedish citizens being held in custody in Iran, the Swedish foreign ministry said on Wednesday. “The Government is working intensively and tirelessly to secure the release without delay of Swedish citizens detained in Iran for no apparent reason,” the …
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NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian artillery forces fighting near the Russian-occupied city of Bakhmut say Russian troops are constantly making offensive assaults as fighting intensifies and Kyiv waits for more military aid from the West. Ukrainian forces have taken up a more defensive stance in many areas of the snow-bound front after a counteroffensive …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – A former Polish deputy foreign minister has been arrested on charges of speeding up visa applications in return for payment, the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) said on Wednesday. The arrest comes amid a drive from the new pro-European government to hold those it accuses of wrongdoing during the previous administration to account. …
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(Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday its forces had carried out a precision strike a day earlier on a building housing “foreign fighters” in Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv. The defence ministry said the fighters were mostly French mercenaries and the building was destroyed, with more than 60 people killed. It did not provide evidence, and …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it regarded work to integrate Saudi Arabia into the BRICs bloc of developing countries very important and said such work was continuing. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the comment after the kingdom’s minister of commerce said in a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine shot down 19 of the 20 Shahed drones launched by Russia in an overnight attack that wounded three people and damaged residential buildings in the Black Sea port of Odesa, officials said on Wednesday. The Ukrainian military said the Russian attack targeted Odesa and other southern regions for at least three …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A top NATO military official called on public and private actors in the West on Wednesday to prepare for an era in which anything could happen at any time, including fighting a war. “We need a warfighting transformation of NATO,” the chief of the alliance’s Military Committee, Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, said …
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By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron promised on Tuesday to overhaul parental leave so it pays better after France saw the lowest number of births since World War Two last year, in a blow to its traditionally strong demographic profile. France registered 678,000 births last year, representing a decrease of 7% from …
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