By Anna Koper and Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s parliament backed Donald Tusk to become prime minister on Monday, ending eight years of nationalist rule and putting the country on track for a thawing of relations with the European Union. Poland has seen tens of billions of euros of European Union funds frozen due to …
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By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) -Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been removed from the penal colony where he had been imprisoned since the middle of last year and his current whereabouts are unknown, his allies said on Monday. Navalny aides have been preparing for his expected transfer to a “special regime” colony, the harshest …
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By Bassam Masoud and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel on Monday denied it intended to push Palestinians seeking refuge from its bombardment of Gaza over the border into Egypt as international relief agencies said hunger was spreading among the besieged enclave’s civilian population. Amid the worsening humanitarian crisis, Hamas fighters and Israeli troops fought across …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russian forces have unleashed a massive new offensive on the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka, part of their campaign to secure control of the eastern Donbas region, the Ukrainian military said on Monday. Avdiivka is a key Ukrainian strongpoint just northwest of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in the eastern Donbas region. “The …
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By Gabriela Baczynska and Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union heavyweights are set for a showdown with Hungary this week over giving Ukraine billions of euros in aid and the chance to start membership negotiations, both key objectives for Kyiv as its war with Russia stalls. European Union leaders will meet for a summit …
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(Reuters) – Slovak truckers will restart a partial blockade of the country’s sole freight road crossing with Ukraine at 3:00 p.m. (1400 GMT) on Monday, a hauliers’ association said. Slovak and Polish truckers have been demanding restrictions on access by Ukrainian trucking firms to the European Union that were removed after Russia’s full-scale invasion of …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said on Monday that it had cracked a network of Ukrainian agents in Crimea who were involved in attempts to assassinate pro-Russian figures. It said the targets included the Moscow-appointed head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, and a former pro-Russian member …
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By Valentyn Ogirenko and Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital with eight long-range ballistic missiles before dawn on Monday and four people were wounded by debris after air defences shot down the incoming salvo, officials said. The strike at around 4 a.m. (0200 GMT) marked the first major attack on Kyiv …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Monday it would transfer two Royal Navy minehunter ships to the Ukrainian Navy, as it sets up a new maritime defence coalition alongside Norway to help strengthen Ukraine’s sea operations. Britain said the two Sandown Class mine countermeasures vessels will enable Ukraine to better counter the threat from Russian …
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By Alan Charlish WARSAW (Reuters) – When Donald Tusk visited the EU headquarters in October to talk about unfreezing funds from the bloc when he likely returns as Poland’s prime minister, it was a meeting of old friends for a man who used to help run the show. “He had lunch at the canteen for …
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