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Bosnia envoy revokes Bosnian Serb laws defying the state, peace deal

1 Jul 2023

By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnia’s international peace overseer, Christian Schmidt, on Saturday annulled two laws that Bosnian Serb parliament had adopted defying the constitution and the terms of a peace deal that ended the Balkan country’s war in the 1990s. Schmidt, who as international High Representative in Bosnia has powers to impose laws …

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Ukraine, US agree: counteroffensive creeps ahead, measured in blood

1 Jul 2023

By Olena Harmash (Reuters) – Ukraine has been publicly cautious in counting gains in a counteroffensive it launched this month to reclaim territory occupied by Russian forces, and on Friday its president and a U.S. general acknowledged that progress is measured in blood. The top U.S. military officer, Army General Mark Milley, told an audience …

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Russia’s Aeroflot resumes regular flights to Cuba, suspended since Ukraine invasion

1 Jul 2023

(Reuters) – Rossiya Airlines, part of Russia’s Aeroflot group, on Saturday resumed scheduled flights to Cuba, which had been suspended since Western countries shut Russia out of their airspace in response to its invasion of Ukraine. The first flight of what will begin as a twice-weekly service took off for the Cuban resort of Varadero …

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Spain’s conservative PP party makes gains a month ahead of national vote, poll shows

1 Jul 2023

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s conservative People’s Party is set to win the most seats in the lower house of parliament in a national election next month, ahead of the ruling Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), a poll released by El Mundo newspaper showed on Saturday. The survey, carried out between June 26 and 30, showed the …

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German coalition at odds over fighter jet sale to Saudi Arabia -Welt am Sonntag

1 Jul 2023

BERLIN(Reuters) – Germany’s coalition government is at odds over whether to bow to British pressure and approve the production of Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets for Saudi Arabia, the newspaper Welt Am Sonntag reported on Saturday, citing anonymous sources. A deal struck by Riyadh and BAE Systems five years ago for the arms maker to supply …

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Tajik man shoots two dead at Moldova’s international airport

1 Jul 2023

By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) -A 43-year-old Tajik man grabbed a gun, shot dead two security officers and wounded a civilian at Moldova’s main international airport on Friday after being denied entry to the country, authorities said. The suspected assailant was himself wounded and apprehended, police said, in an incident that briefly grounded flights at …

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UK, Australia and Canada want reversal of Israel approval of new West Bank settlement units

30 Jun 2023

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain, Australia and Canada have called on Israel’s government to reverse a decision to approve new settlement units in the West Bank, saying they are “deeply concerned” by an ongoing cycle of violence. This week, Israel approved over 5,700 new settlement units in the West Bank and earlier this month instituted changes …

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Rembrandts of ‘extraordinary rarity’ could fetch $10 million at auction

30 Jun 2023

LONDON (Reuters) – Two rediscovered Rembrandts, the last known pair of portraits by the Dutch master to have remained in private hands, could fetch around $10 million at auction next week. Signed and dated 1635, the depictions of married couple Jan Willemsz van der Pluym and Jaapgen Carels, who were close to the artist’s family, …

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Man dies after falling from building during riots in northern France – authorities

30 Jun 2023

PARIS (Reuters) – A young man died on Friday after falling from the roof of a supermarket in the suburbs of the northern French city of Rouen during overnight riots, local authorities said. A police source told Reuters on Friday the man had fallen from the roof as the supermarket in the suburb of Petit-Quevilly …

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