BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO allies in a meeting with Ukraine have made it clear they will continue to provide the country with major military, economic, and humanitarian aid in the face of Russia’s almost two-year-old invasion, NATO said on Wednesday. In a statement after the video conference, NATO added that member states had outlined plans …
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KRCEDINSKA ADA, Serbia (Reuters) – Serbian farmers and officials struggled on Wednesday to rescue dozens of starving horses and cattle stranded on an island in the Danube River. The animals are normally left to graze during spring and summer on the Krcedinska Ada in the Danube, about 50 km (30 miles) north of Belgrade. Unusually …
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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived in Lithuania on Wednesday at the start of a tour of three Baltic states to discuss his country’s war with Russia and Kyiv’s plans to join NATO and the European Union. Announcing his arrival on X, formerly known as Twitter, Zelenskiy said he would go …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron and his new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal worked on Wednesday to pull together a cabinet, a day after Macron appointed the 34-year-old media-savvy ally to breathe new life into his second mandate. Attal has promised to be bold and fast to help the middle class weather the rising …
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By Amir Cohen and Maayan Lubell ROAD 232, southern Israel (Reuters) – Three months on, the scent of blood still hung in the air in the cramped concrete bomb shelter where rampaging Hamas fighters tossed grenades and opened fire to kill dozens of Israelis trapped inside. Tali Kizhner knelt down, caressing the foot of a …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of people faced train cancellations across Germany from Wednesday, as a three-day nationwide rail strike added to travel chaos in Europe’s largest economy, where ongoing farmers’ protests have also snarled road traffic. The GDL train drivers’ union began its main strike in the early hours of Wednesday, joining one …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece rescued 18 migrants and recovered the bodies of two people, a woman and a man, close to a rocky shore on the island of Lesbos on Wednesday, the coastguard said. The migrants are believed to have reached the island on a boat amid high winds in the Aegean Sea, a coastguard …
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By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) – After her younger brother was killed in November fighting Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, Anna Birzul spent two days stricken with grief. Then she sprang into action, penning a petition asking President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to award 29-year-old Bohdan Krotov the highest military honour, Hero of Ukraine. “We buried him …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Railways said on Wednesday it had restored train movements along part of a railroad in eastern Siberia, a key route for Russia’s eastward exports, following the derailment of freight cars on Monday. The company said on Monday two passenger trains operating in the area had been halted after a derailment, but …
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LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal has been slow to implement new measures to combat corruption in government and law enforcement, a top European anti-graft monitoring body said on Wednesday, amid new concerns about the transparency of government-backed business deals. The report by the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), part Europe’s main rights watchdog, the Council …
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