COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark’s defence ministry aims to restart ammunition production after a 55-year gap to ensure its domestic supplies as the war in Ukraine creates increased demand for military hardware across Europe. The ministry said in a statement on Saturday it had entered into an agreement to buy a mothballed arms factory in the …
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(Reuters) – Ramzan Kadyrov, head of Russia’s Chechnya region and close ally of President Vladimir Putin, proposed on Saturday that a presidential election due next March should either be postponed due to the war in Ukraine or limited to one candidate – Putin. The Kremlin leader, who turned 71 on Saturday, has said he will …
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By Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish forces have killed 58 Kurdish militants in northern Syria in overnight attacks on militant targets, the Defence Ministry said on Saturday, as conflict in the region escalated nearly a week after a bomb attack in Ankara. Turkey this week said all targets belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party …
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By Ammar Awad and Maayan Lubell SDEROT, Israel (Reuters) – Bloodied bodies in the streets, gunmen raiding door-to-door and news of captives taken to Gaza left Israelis terrified and in shock after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack that was unprecedented in audacity and scale. A resident reported seeing multiple bodies and …
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NICOSIA (Reuters) – A Russian journalist detained in Cyprus for allegedly being a threat to national security has left the island, Cypriot media said on Saturday. The journalist’s detention on Thursday in Nicosia sparked a rare crisis in relations between Russia and Cyprus, with the Cypriot ambassador summoned to the foreign ministry in Moscow for …
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(Reuters) – The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region said on Saturday that one civilian had been killed in the village of Urazovo, near the Ukrainian border, as a result of Ukrainian shelling. Russian air defence systems downed three Ukrainian missiles over the region, he said earlier. Attacks on regions of Russia adjoining Ukraine have become …
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By Max Hunder and Anna Voitenko HROZA, Ukraine (Reuters) -In a burial plot next to a field outside the remote Ukrainian hamlet of Hroza, residents removed undergrowth and cleared away litter to make space for more graves. Working quietly, it was something to distract them from the horror of what happened the day before. As …
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By Toby Sterling and Bart H. Meijer AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The discovery of a Nazi membership card in the name of late Dutch Prince Bernhard, a German who married into the Dutch royal family in the 1930s, revived calls on Friday for an inquiry into his ties to Adolf Hitler’s party. Prince Bernhard, the grandfather …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russian forces carried out an overnight missile strike on Ukraine’s southern Odesa region, damaging port infrastructure, Ukrainian authorities said early on Saturday. Governor Oleh Kiper said four people were wounded in the strike, which hit a boarding house and a portside grain facility. He did not specify where the attack took place. …
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By Daren Butler, Tuvan Gumrukcu and kilo ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish security forces attacked Kurdish militants in northern Syria and eastern Turkey, and Ankara said it will continue to destroy their capabilities across the region as conflict escalated on Friday nearly a week after a bomb attack in Ankara. After U.S. forces shot down a Turkish …
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