By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Monday said the situation in Russia remains dynamic days after an aborted mutiny, and said it does not have any assessment about the whereabouts of the boss of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin. “It is a certainly a new thing to see President …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited two sectors of the frontline facing Russian troops in eastern and southern Ukraine, handing out awards and posing with troops in video footage posted online on Monday. The president’s office posted three videos and said Zelenskiy visited the two areas on Monday. One site was in eastern Donetsk …
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ISTANBUL/ATHENS (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Vilnius next month, Mitsotakis’ office said on Monday, a day after he won a national election. Mitsotakis was sworn in for a second term as prime minister on Monday following a resounding …
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By Christian Kraemer and Gavin Jones BERLIN/ROME (Reuters) -Germany, France and Italy pledged to cooperate more on procuring raw materials at a meeting of economy and industrial ministers on Tuesday in Berlin they said marked a new phase of trilateral collaboration on European industrial policy. The West is racing to curb its dependence on China …
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) – (This June 21 story has been corrected to say that the move itself does not defy the 1995 Dayton peace accord but the envoy says it violates general framework, in paragraph 2, and to clarify that the power to sack officials and impose laws applies in certain conditions and was granted in …
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By Lefteris Papadimas and Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) -Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be sworn in as Greece’s prime minister on Monday, a day after a resounding win for his New Democracy party in repeat elections gave him a second four-year term. His centre-right party got an overall majority – 158 seats in the 300-seat parliament – …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – A Russian diplomat squatting on land set aside for a future Russian embassy in Australia has left after a court ruled that Moscow had no claim to the site near the national parliament in Canberra. Australia on June 15 canceled Russia’s lease to build a new embassy citing national security, drawing criticism …
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By Deena Beasley SAN DIEGO (Reuters) -Novo Nordisk on Sunday said a late-stage trial found that a high-dose oral version of its drug semaglutide helped overweight or obese adults lose 15% of their body weight, which is in line with recent results for other experimental obesity pills. Novo plans to seek U.S. and European regulatory …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The aborted mutiny by Russia’s Wagner mercenary group at the weekend demonstrated the scale of the Kremlin’s strategic mistake in waging war on Ukraine, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday. Russia sought to restore calm on Monday after Wagner fighters halted a rapid advance on Moscow, withdrew from the seized southern …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union foreign ministers on Monday said an aborted mutiny in Russia at the weekend showed Moscow’s war in Ukraine was causing domestic instability and undermining its military power, but stressed their focus remained on supporting Kyiv. Wagner mercenary forces under renegade leader Yevgeny Prigozhin seized control of military headquarters in southern …
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