By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration is expected to announce a new weapons package for Ukraine next week as the Pentagon continues to use up funds discovered due to a multi-billion dollar accounting error, U.S. officials said. Those funds have allowed the Biden administration to send Kyiv arms, supplies and munitions despite …
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(Reuters) -Russia summoned Cyprus’s ambassador on Friday after what it called “unacceptable and provocative actions” against a Russian journalist and an employee of the Russian embassy in Nicosia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The ministry said security personnel in Cyprus violently detained and injured a journalist working for the state-run Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper whom they …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has expelled two Russian embassy officials after Russia earlier expelled two U.S. diplomats from the American embassy in Moscow, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. “In response to the Russian Federation’s specious expulsion of two U.S. Embassy Moscow diplomats, the State Department reciprocated by declaring persona non grata …
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By Gwladys Fouche and Tom Little OSLO (Reuters) – Imprisoned Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a rebuke to Tehran’s theocratic leaders and boost for anti-government protesters, prompting the Islamic Republic’s condemnation. The award-making committee said the prize honoured those behind recent unprecedented demonstrations in Iran and …
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By Gabriela Baczynska and Inti Landauro GRANADA, Spain (Reuters) – Poland and Hungary blocked a symbolic European Union statement about migration on Friday but other leaders gathered at a summit in Spain said they were continuing overhauling the bloc’s rules for handling irregular arrivals anyway. Some 250,000 people arrived so far this year beyond regular …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish coast guards rescued 262 migrants in three boats trying to reach the Canary Islands in the early hours on Friday amid a surge in crossings, just as European leaders were meeting in Spain to look for ways to avoid a new migration crisis. Italy and Spain have voiced concern over an …
By Andrew Gray and Belén Carreño GRANADA, Spain (Reuters) – European Union leaders declared support on Friday for adding new members to the bloc but set no target date and warned candidates such as Ukraine that there would be no short cuts. At a summit in the Spanish city of Granada, leaders of the 27-nation …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Two Legia Warsaw players were arrested by Dutch police following the Polish soccer team’s Europa Conference League match at AZ Alkmaar on Thursday, officials said, prompting an angry reaction in Poland. The police said they had detained a 28-year-old from Serbia and a 33-year-old from Portugal after the Group E game at …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) deployed a field team on Friday to investigate an air strike on the Ukrainian village of Hroza that left at least 52 people dead. A missile slammed into a cafe and grocery store in the village on Thursday as people gathered to mourn …
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By Michelle Nichols and Emma Farge UNITED NATIONS/GENEVA (Reuters) – Russia is seeking re-election to the United Nations’ top human rights body next week in what is seen as a crucial test of Western efforts to keep Moscow diplomatically isolated over its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Amid creeping signs of Ukraine war “fatigue”, some …
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