KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that Kyiv did not expect wartime support from its partners to decrease and that there had been no slowdown in deliveries of weapons. The remarks at a news conference in Kyiv come amid a darkening outlook for Ukraine with uncertainty swirling over the passage of major …
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By Jonathan Landay and Tom Balmforth WASHINGTON/KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff said on Tuesday that the postponement of U.S. assistance for Kyiv being debated in Congress would create a “big risk” of Ukraine losing the war with Russia. The remarks by Andriy Yermak were some of the frankest yet from a …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s military shot down 10 out of 17 attack drones launched overnight by Russia, Ukrainian authorities said on Tuesday. The governor of Ukraine’s western Lviv region said three drones had struck an unspecified infrastructure target, but damage had been minimal and no casualties had been reported. Authorities in eastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region said …
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By Gloria Dickie, Elizabeth Piper and Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) -The United Arab Emirates and several charities at the U.N. climate summit on Sunday offered $777 million in financing for eradicating neglected tropical diseases that are expected to worsen as temperatures climb. Climate-related factors “have become one of the greatest threats to human health in …
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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Maria Andreeva, whose husband has been fighting in Ukraine for more than a year, is also waging a battle in Moscow: to get him home. She is not alone. A growing movement of Russian women is demanding the return from the front of their husbands, sons and brothers who …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a working visit to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, a Kremlin spokesman said, and hold talks in Russia the next day with the president of Iran. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov, asked if Putin would discuss possible coordinated actions on global oil markets during …
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KYIV (Reuters) – At least two people were killed and three wounded after Russian forces shelled the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, authorities said on Tuesday. Regional prosecutors opened a war crimes investigation into one of the strikes, which occurred around 9 a.m. and killed a 48-year-old man and a woman who had not yet …
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By Carien du Plessis and Shafiek Tassiem JOHANNESBURG, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Days after his release from 27 years in prison in February 1990, anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela gave Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a bear hug, symbolising his embrace of a cause his country’s governing ANC party continues to champion. It was a gesture as …
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By Jeff Mason, Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is running out of time and money to help Ukraine fight its war against Russia, White House officials warned on Monday. Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration in October asked Congress for nearly $106 billion to fund ambitious plans for Ukraine, Israel and …
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By Simon Lewis, Humeyra Pamuk and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States said on Monday it was too soon to make a final judgment on whether Israel was doing enough to protect civilians in Gaza despite some improvements and that it expected Israeli forces not to strike zones they have identified as safe. Intense …
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