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EU needs more measures to help Ukraine’s energy security, Kallas says

20 Oct 2025

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union officials encourage new measures to support Ukraine’s energy security, the EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday, adding the latest package of sanctions on Russia will not be the last. “To further cut Russian war funds, we need a more robust EU-wide approach against the shadow fleet”, Kallas also …

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Pope Leo holds first meeting with survivors of Catholic sexual abuse

20 Oct 2025

By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo met with survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy for the first time on Monday, participants said, days after the Vatican’s child protection commission accused senior Church leaders of being too slow to help victims. Leo held a meeting with Ending Clergy Abuse, an international coalition of …

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Analysis-German coalition unruliness threatens Merz’s reform agenda

20 Oct 2025

By Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is struggling to push through two key policy proposals on pensions and military service, in a setback fuelling concerns that some of the political instability seen in France could soon echo in Europe’s largest economy. Merz’s conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats had …

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Germany plans to order 15 more US-made F-35 jets, says source

20 Oct 2025

BERLIN (Reuters) -German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius intends to order an additional 15 F-35 fighter jets from U.S. manufacturer Lockheed Martin, a parliamentary source told Reuters on Monday, confirming a report by Spiegel magazine. Planners expect the aircraft to cost about 2.5 billion euros ($2.9 billion), according to confidential documents prepared for parliament’s budget committee, …

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UK imposes sanctions on two Haitians over gang violence

20 Oct 2025

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Monday imposed fresh sanctions on two Haitian individuals, including a gang leader, accusing them of fueling gang violence and political instability in the country, according to a government notice. The measures, which target Les Argentins gang leader Kempes Sanon and former head of Haiti’s National Palace General Security Unit Dimitri Herard, …

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Russia prepared to expand ties with Iran in all areas, the Kremlin says

20 Oct 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia is prepared to expand cooperation with Iran in all areas, the Kremlin said on Monday. Moscow has close relations with Tehran and condemned U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear sites earlier this year that were carried out with the stated aim of preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear bomb. Iran denies …

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Iran sees the ‘necessary will’ to resolve prisoner issue with France

20 Oct 2025

DUBAI (Reuters) -Both Tehran and Paris have the necessary will to resolve the “issue” of prisoners, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday, a week after an Iranian court gave heavy prison sentences to two French citizens. “We are following the issue seriously. We believe both sides have the necessary will to resolve …

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Kremlin says Orban’s good ties with Trump and Putin are reason for holding summit in Hungary

20 Oct 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Monday that Budapest was chosen as the venue for an upcoming summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump because Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has good ties with both leaders. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: “Orban has quite warm relations with President Trump and …

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Landslide victory of Turk Cypriot moderate offers fresh hope for talks

20 Oct 2025

NICOSIA (Reuters) -A landslide victory for a moderate candidate in a Turkish Cypriot presidential election offers a glimmer of hope in breaking an eight-year impasse in peace talks on the ethnically split island, diplomats and analysts said. Centre-left Tufan Erhurman won a commanding 62.7% of Turkish Cypriot votes in Sunday’s election, final results on Monday …

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EU foreign policy chief says possible Putin visit to Hungary ‘not nice’

20 Oct 2025

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday that it was “not nice” that Russian President Vladimir Putin might travel to EU member Hungary for talks on the war in Ukraine. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would soon meet Putin in Budapest. Kallas told reporters ahead …

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