WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish farmers blockaded the Medyka border crossing with Ukraine on Thursday, private broadcaster Polsat News reported, resuming a protest intended to secure government subsidies for corn and prevent tax increases. The farmers, who are demanding a written agreement with the government, had suspended their protest at the crossing in southeastern Poland on …
By Jonathan Landay and Daphne Psaledakis UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Members of the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday called on Yemen’s Houthis to halt their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, saying they are illegal and threaten regional stability, freedom of navigation and global food supplies. Addressing the council’s first formal …
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By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A woman who has said she was victimized by late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Britain’s Prince Andrew put his hand on her breast at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse in 2001, according to court documents from a civil lawsuit unsealed on Wednesday. The incident, which has been …
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By Tom Balmforth LONDON (Reuters) – Russian hackers were inside Ukrainian telecoms giant Kyivstar’s system from at least May last year in a cyberattack that should serve as a “big warning” to the West, Ukraine’s cyber spy chief told Reuters. The hack, one of the most dramatic since Russia’s full-scale invasion nearly two years ago, …
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was out of intensive care and was recovering from surgery to repair a major vein that was sliced in a knife attack two days ago, a surgeon who operated on him said on Thursday. Lee requires continued observation as the injury to the jugular …
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By Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) – Paris hotels are tripling their prices to more than 1,000 euros ($1,092) on average for the opening night of the 2024 Olympic games, according to a consumer organisation study. UFC-Que Choisir said a late-December poll of 80 three- and four-star hotels showed that on the night of July …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – A top Polish security official on Wednesday said he could not rule out that the Dec. 29 breach of Poland’s airspace by what Warsaw says was a Russian missile was a provocation. “I cannot rule it out. (Our) allies are also not ruling it out,” Jacek Siewiera, the head of the Polish …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine and Russia on Wednesday announced their first exchange of prisoners of war in nearly five months, with more than 200 freed by each side after what both said was a complex negotiation involving mediation by the United Arab Emirates. Russia’s Defence Ministry said 248 military personnel had been handed over by …
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By Daphne Psaledakis and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. has not observed acts in Gaza that constitute genocide, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Wednesday, after South Africa launched genocide proceedings at the International Court of Justice over Israel’s military operation in the Palestinian enclave. “Those are allegations that should not be …
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By Mohammad Azakir, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Arafat Barbakh BEIRUT/CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -The head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Wednesday it “cannot be silent” after the killing of Hamas’ deputy leader in Beirut and warned that his heavily armed forces would fight to the finish if Israel chose to extend war from Gaza to Lebanon. Israeli forces …
