STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -A suspect has been identified in the murder of an anti-Islam campaigner in Sweden in January, the public prosecutor said on Monday, a case that the Swedish prime minister has said might have links to foreign powers. “We have a good picture of the sequence of events and after extensive technical investigations and …
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By Tom Balmforth and Dan Peleschuk LONDON/KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meets Donald Trump on Friday to push for more military support at a time when Kyiv and Moscow are escalating the war with massive attacks on energy systems and NATO is struggling to respond to a spate of air incursions. Since Trump’s summit with …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva intends to visit Ukraine at a time that has not yet been determined, an IMF spokesperson said on Wednesday. Georgieva visited Ukraine in February 2023 and plans to visit again, but the timing is still undecided, the spokesperson said. The IMF chief’s plans were first reported by …
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By Steven Scheer and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Aid trucks rolled into Gaza on Wednesday and Israel resumed preparations to open the main Rafah crossing as Hamas handed over more bodies of dead hostages, following a dispute that had threatened the fragile ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave. Israel had warned it could keep Rafah shut …
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By Andrew Gray and Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Moscow on Wednesday that the United States and its allies would “impose costs on Russia for its continued aggression” if the war in Ukraine does not come to an end. “If we must take this step, the U.S. War Department stands …
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By Francois Murphy and Alexandra Schwarz-Goerlich INNSBRUCK, Austria (Reuters) -An Austrian court convicted former property billionaire Rene Benko of insolvency-related fraud on Wednesday in his first criminal trial linked to the collapse of his real estate group Signa, sentencing him to two years in prison. The case stems from a sweeping investigation into crimes prosecutors …
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PARIS (Reuters) -France’s highest administrative court rejected a challenge to electoral rules by far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Wednesday, dealing a blow to her efforts to overturn a sentence that could derail her candidacy in the 2027 presidential election. Le Pen was barred in March from seeking public office for five years after the …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -The United Nations is seeking a dramatic boost in humanitarian aid for Gaza, saying the hundreds of relief trucks cleared to enter the devastated enclave under a ceasefire were nowhere near the thousands needed to ease a humanitarian disaster. Tom Fletcher, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and its …
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By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) -Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has once again proved that pension reform is the hottest of hot button political issues in France, pledging to suspend a deeply unpopular 2023 overhaul to save his government from collapse. Lecornu promised on Tuesday to put President Emmanuel Macron’s flagship reform on ice until after …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine is introducing emergency power cuts in all but two regions following a spate of Russian strikes that have hobbled the country’s energy system, officials said on Wednesday. Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities as winter approaches, seriously damaging gas production and plunging major cities including the capital Kyiv into …
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