By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin in March announced a plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Moscow’s first move of such warheads outside Russia since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. What is known about the deployment? WHAT DID PUTIN SAY? Putin’s nuclear deployment is a message to …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -A former campaign leader for jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison on Wednesday for “creating an extremist organisation”. Navalny supporters reacted with outrage to the sentence against Liliya Chanysheva, the former campaign chief for Navalny in the Urals city of Ufa. Navalny aide …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – An ethnic Hungarian party is quitting Romania’s governing coalition in a row over cabinet posts, it said on Wednesday, further destabilising the country’s already volatile political landscape. The UDMR has tended to serve as a bridge between the coalition’s main two parties, the leftist Social Democrats and the centre-right Liberals. Former rivals, …
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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -U.N. nuclear chief Rafael Grossi has delayed a planned trip to Ukraine’s Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant until it is safer to travel, a senior Ukrainian government official said on Wednesday. Grossi had been expected to visit the facility on Wednesday following talks in Kyiv on Tuesday, but a diplomatic …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Deputy foreign ministers from Russia, Syria, Turkey and Iran will meet in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, on June 21, Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency said on Wednesday. The four countries have been discussing Syria’s future after 12 years of civil war, during which Russia and Iran supported President Bashar al-Assad while …
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(Reuters) – Russian state entity NAMI said on Wednesday it had acquired a 100% stake in a factory producing anti-lock brakes and other systems for cars that was formerly owned by German technology group Robert Bosch. NAMI, Russia’s Central Automobile and Engine Research and Development Institute, has been snapping up assets from global carmakers that …
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By Vitalii Hnidyi NESKUCHNE, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine’s blue and yellow flag flew over a ruined grocery store and Russian soldiers lay dead in the street of the village of Neskuchne, reached by Reuters journalists on Tuesday in the first independent confirmation of Ukraine’s biggest advances for seven months against Russia’s invasion. Russia has not acknowledged …
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OSLO (Reuters) – Denmark will later this week propose an August start date for teaching Ukrainian pilots how to fly F-16 fighter jets, Danish news agency Ritzau reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources. A proposal to begin training in Denmark, where there are flight simulators, will be made on Thursday by acting Danish Defence Minister …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – The International Labour Organization passed its budget on Tuesday, the body confirmed, after more than a week of vexed negotiations that exposed a deep rift between countries on LGBTQ protections. Diplomats told Reuters that the nearly $1 billion budget of the U.N. agency had been held hostage to an …
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By Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said Ukraine is making progress in its counteroffensive against Russian invaders and predicted NATO leaders will increase military assistance to Kyiv when they meet next month. Stoltenberg made the comments as he met in the Oval Office with President Joe …
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