By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday targeted 10 individuals in a new round of sanctions aimed at containing Russian influence in the Western Balkans, the U.S. Treasury said. The Treasury also imposed sanctions on 20 entities, including 11 based in Russia, in line with executive orders related to the Western Balkans …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France on Thursday condemned violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, calling it a “policy of terror” aimed at displacing Palestinians and urging Israeli authorities to protect Palestinians from the violence. U.N. figures show that daily settler attacks have more than doubled, since the Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct. …
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By Belén Carreño MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish lawmakers began debating a new term on Wednesday for acting premier Pedro Sanchez, whose offer of an amnesty to Catalan separatists in return for support has roused protests. Several thousand protesters, many draped in Spanish flags, rallied outside the headquarters of Sanchez’s Socialist Party (PSOE) in Madrid, chanting “No …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron travelled to wartime Kyiv and met President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for talks on his first working trip abroad, the Ukrainian leader said on Thursday. Former prime minister Cameron, who was named as Britain’s new foreign minister on Monday, said in a video posted by Zelenskiy’s office that he wanted …
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(Reuters) – The German interior ministry said on Thursday it was conducting searches of 54 objects in seven federal states related to the Islamic center in Hamburg. The Islamic center of Hamburg is under suspicion of acting against a constitutional order and supporting the militant group Hezbollah, the ministry said. (Reporting by Linda Pasquini; Editing …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Finland’s coast guard said on Thursday that Russia has completed repairs of a Russian Baltic Sea telecoms cable that was damaged six weeks ago around the same time that a gas pipeline and other communications cables were broken. Finnish and Estonian investigators have said they suspect a Chinese container vessel, the NewNew Polar …
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By Huseyin Hayatsever ANKARA (Reuters) – A Turkish parliament commission is set to debate and likely approve Sweden’s NATO membership bid on Thursday, in the latest step toward expanding the Western bloc after 18 months of delays that frustrated some allies and extracted some concessions. In May of last year, President Tayyip Erdogan raised objections …
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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) -A reverse takeover deal involving Amigo Holdings, Craven House Capital and various individuals signed last month has been terminated, the British subprime lender said on Thursday as if faces voluntary liquidation. Amigo, which provides credit to borrowers excluded from mainstream banks, is in an “orderly solvent wind-down” after the cost …
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MOSCOW, (Reuters) -Russia’s rocket forces loaded an intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with the nuclear-capable “Avangard” hypersonic glide vehicle into a launch silo in southern Russia, according to a defence ministry TV channel broadcast on Thursday. President Vladimir Putin announced the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle in 2018, saying it was a response to U.S. development of …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli troops found a command centre and weapons and combat gear belonging to Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza’s biggest hospital on Wednesday, Israel’s military said, in a campaign that stoked global alarm over the fate of civilians inside. Al Shifa hospital had become the chief target of a Gaza …
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