By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – Before he was killed in a Russian missile strike last July, CEO Oleksiy Vadaturskiy decided Ukrainian grain exporting giant Nibulon would build up an export route via the Danube River that would be more secure than precarious wartime sea exports. With the Black Sea export deal now hanging by …
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By Jason Hovet and Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on NATO leaders to take concrete steps towards Ukrainian membership at a summit next week, and he received support during a visit to Prague from the Czech president, who backed Kyiv’s bid to join the alliance. He said his country, engaged in …
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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States plans to send cluster munitions to Ukraine to help it battle Russian invaders, U.S. officials said on Thursday, a move opposed by human rights groups but which would provide a powerful new element to Ukraine’s counteroffensive A weapons aid package that includes cluster munitions fired by a …
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(Reuters) -OceanGate, the U.S.-based company that managed the tourist submersible that imploded during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic, has suspended all exploration and commercial operations, its website showed on Thursday. The company did not elaborate beyond a red banner at the top of its website: “OceanGate has suspended all exploration and commercial …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Joe Biden’s administration did not sanction secret meetings that former top U.S. national security officials held with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and other Russians on potential talks to end the Ukraine war, a State Department spokesperson said on Thursday. NBC News reported that the former U.S. officials met Lavrov in New …
MADRID (Reuters) – Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged to help Spaniards with rising mortgage costs, while his conservative rival, frontrunner Alberto Nunez Feijoo said he would address water shortages as they officially launched campaigns on Thursday for an election later this month. Sanchez said he would make banks extend mortgages by seven years, a measure …
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(Reuters) -Ukraine on Thursday said it had secured the backing of NATO member Bulgaria for its membership of the military alliance “as soon as conditions allow” as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy held talks in Sofia on a tour to rally support from allies. Zelenskiy, who wants to receive an invitation to begin the process of joining …
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By Charlie Devereux MADRID (Reuters) – Alberto Nunez Feijoo likes to cultivate a reputation for dullness – and it’s a personality trait that could help give him the upper hand this month in a tight contest to become Spain’s next leader. “What for some may be boring, I think for the majority of citizens are …
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By Guy Faulconbridge MINSK (Reuters) -Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who last month brokered a deal to end an armed mutiny in Russia, said on Thursday that Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was no longer in Belarus. Lukashenko said on June 27 that Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Group whose fighters briefly captured a southern Russian …
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By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) – Russian state TV on Wednesday night launched a fierce attack on Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of an aborted armed mercenary mutiny last month, and said an investigation was still being pursued. Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner mercenary group, took control of the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on June 24, …
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