MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin has arrived for his first-ever presidential visit to Chukotka in Russia’s Far East, Russian state media reported on Wednesday. Putin has arrived in Anadyr, the local capital of the Chukotka region. Chukotka is the easternmost region of Russia, with a maritime border on the Bering Strait with the U.S. …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A joint statement by the United States and its partners on Tuesday condemned arms transfers between North Korea and Russia, including what it termed as Russia’s procurement of North Korean ballistic missiles and Moscow’s use of those against Ukraine on Dec. 30 and Jan. 2. WHY IT IS IMPORTANT Both …
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By Fedja Grulovic BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) – Bosnian Serbs celebrated their autonomous region’s statehood day on Tuesday with a parade of special forces and armoured vehicles in defiance of a top court ban and warnings from Western overseers of Bosnia’s troubled peace. Jan. 9 marks the date in 1992 when Bosnian Serbs declared independence …
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(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday there were “clear signs of a slowdown” in Russia’s defence industry and called for further action to eliminate loopholes in sanctions imposed on Moscow. Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly video address, provided no evidence for his assertion on the state of the Russian defence industry. Russian officials …
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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA on Tuesday added more delays to its Artemis moon program, scheduling for 2026 its first astronaut lunar landing in half a century while spacecraft from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Lockheed Martin and other contractors face development challenges. The U.S. space agency’s first two Artemis missions involving astronauts were each …
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By Gwladys Fouche TYRISTRAND, Norway (Reuters) – Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik told a court on Tuesday he was sorry for what he had done and broke down in tears as he said his life in prison isolation was a nightmare that left him considering suicide every day. The far-right fanatic who killed 77 …
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By Arafat Barbakh, Simon Lewis and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/TEL AVIV/CAIRO (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israeli leaders on Tuesday to avoid harming civilians as it presses its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, saying the daily toll was far too high. Blinken, making his fourth visit to the Middle East since …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron was expected to appoint a new prime minister on Tuesday, as he seeks to boost his second mandate ahead of European parliament elections. The move will not necessarily lead to any major political shift but rather signals a desire for Macron to try to move beyond last year’s …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s Franz Beckenbauer, one of soccer’s greatest players who captained his country to World Cup glory in 1974 and won the tournament again as manager in 1990, has died at the age of 78, his family said in a statement on Monday. Beckenbauer bestrode the sport as player, coach, pundit and administrator for …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court said on Tuesday that a U.S. citizen had been detained on drugs charges which can carry up to 20 years in prison. Moscow’s Ostankino District Court said that on Jan. 6 Robert Romanov Woodland had been remanded in custody until March 5 on charges relating to the illegal acquisition …
