By Steve Holland NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden appealed to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to stand with Ukraine against Russian invaders, hoping Republicans in Congress will also take notice. “Russia believes that the world will grow weary and allow it to brutalize Ukraine without consequence,” Biden said in …
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By Toby Sterling and Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Tuesday its computer system had been hacked, a breach at one of the world’s most high-profile international institutions and one that handles highly sensitive information about war crimes. The ICC said it had detected unusual activity on …
PARIS (Reuters) – A French reporter was arrested and her home searched on Tuesday in connection with a report two years ago by online media outlet Disclose that said French intelligence was being misused by Egypt, the outlet and the reporter’s lawyer said. Rights groups condemned the arrest of reporter Ariane Lavrilleux, who authored the …
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By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) -Ukraine told the U.N.’s highest court in The Hague on Tuesday that Russia justified waging war against Ukraine by invoking “a terrible lie”, namely that Moscow’s invasion was to stop an alleged genocide. “The international community adopted the Genocide Convention to protect; Russia invokes the Genocide convention …
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By Andrew Mills, Humeyra Pamuk and Parisa Hafezi DOHA/NEW YORK (Reuters) – A plane carrying five Americans freed by Iran was on its way to the United States on Tuesday, a day after they were swapped for five Iranians detained in the U.S. and the unfreezing of $6 billion in Iranian funds, in a rare …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Russia struck three industrial warehouses in a drone strike on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv early on Tuesday, causing a huge fire and killing at least one person, local officials said. Russian forces also shelled the southern city of Kherson, killing a policeman and wounding two civilians on a trolleybus, the head …
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(Reuters) – Evidence suggests a deadly explosion at a busy market in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka this month was caused by an errant missile fired by Ukraine, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. Ukraine has said the Sept. 6 blast, which killed at least 16 people, was caused by a Russian missile. …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has ramped up the production of some military hardware by more than tenfold to supply its army in Ukraine, significantly increasing the output of missiles, drones, combat vehicles and artillery, Russia’s biggest weapons producer said on Tuesday. President Vladimir Putin has ordered production to be cranked up to ensure Moscow achieves …
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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -A cargo vessel carrying grain has left the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Chornomorsk for the first time since a grain deal collapsed, a top government official said on Tuesday, in a test of Ukraine’s ability to unblock its seaports for grain export. “The vessel RESILIENT AFRICA, carrying 3,000 tons …
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By Libby George LONDON (Reuters) – The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) expects to continue to invest roughly 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) per year in Ukraine in the coming two years, the lender’s president said on Monday. EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso said the amount was not set in stone and could increase, …
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