By Guy Faulconbridge, Darya Korsunskaya and Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW (Reuters) -As one of the most brutal mercenary forces marched on Moscow, some among Russia’s elite trembled in fear that the world’s biggest nuclear power was teetering on the brink of what President Vladimir Putin said could have been a civil war. With Putin facing the …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday the failed mutiny in Russia last weekend had weakened President Vladimir Putin but the implications for his invasion of Ukraine remained unclear. Speaking in a wide-ranging, hour-long interview with ARD broadcaster, Scholz echoed U.S. President Joe Biden in saying the insurrection by Wagner mercenaries was part …
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By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is examining how the Wagner Group’s short-lived mutiny against Russia’s military establishment might affect the mercenaries’ operations in the Middle East and Africa, officials said. Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin startled the world by leading an armed revolt on Saturday that brought his fighters from the …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he persuaded Russian President Vladimir Putin not to “wipe out” mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, in response to what the Kremlin cast as a mutiny that pushed Russia towards civil war. Putin initially vowed to crush the mutiny, comparing it to the …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – A lack of leadership by countries such as Germany and France and narrow industrial interests keep Europe from boosting defence cooperation as warranted by Russia’s war on Ukraine, a report by the Munich Security Conference stated on Wednesday. “The crucial capability gap in European defence is still political leadership,” the Munich Security …
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By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – The Ukrainian government appointed a new head of state-owned weapons producer Ukroboronprom on Wednesday as Kyiv seeks to boost domestic weapons production and increase transparency. The appointment of Herman Smetanin, who has been serving as head of the Kharkiv Malyshev Plant in northeast Ukraine, as the new general director …
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KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – The body of a boy was pulled out of the rubble of a building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on Wednesday, taking the death toll from a Russian missile strike to nine, the city mayor said. The prosecutor general said 60 people were also wounded in the attack on …
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PARIS (Reuters) -A French police officer is being investigated for homicide after shooting dead a 17-year-old on Tuesday morning in the Paris suburb of Nanterre after the youth failed to comply with an order to stop his car, the local prosecutor’s office said. BFM TV broadcast images of sporadic clashes breaking out between youths and …
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(Reuters) – German prosecutors and police on Wednesday conducted searches at several properties as part of an investigation into suspects at an unnamed listed real estate company, according to the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office. Twenty offices and apartments as well as a law firm in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Portugal, Monaco, Luxembourg and Britain were searched …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s defence minister met the leader of the Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare, on Wednesday to discuss security, on a two-day visit that comes as China takes a bigger role in the Pacific nation’s police force. Sogavare is expected to travel to China next week, he told parliament on Monday. His …
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