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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia was considering withdrawing from the Black Sea grain deal because the West had cheated Moscow by implementing none of the promises to get Russian agricultural goods to world markets. The deal allowing Ukraine to resume seaborne grain exports was brokered by the …

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(Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday that the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus would serve as a deterrent against a potential aggressor and that there should be no hesitation in using them if required. His comments were carried by the Belta news agency. Russia will start deploying tactical nuclear …

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(Reuters) – Russia’s Defence Ministry released video footage on Tuesday of what it said were German-made Leopard tanks and U.S.-made Bradley Fighting Vehicles captured by Russian forces in a battle with Ukrainian troops. Reuters could not immediately verify the location and timing of the footage, which the Defence Ministry said was filmed on the Zaporizhzhia …

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By Max Hunder KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine (Reuters) -At least six people were killed in a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, officials said. Residents sobbed outside the burnt-out apartment block, from which smoke billowed after the early-morning attack on the central Ukrainian city. …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany aims to purchase six IRIS-T air defence systems for its air force at a total cost of some 900 million euros ($971.73 million), a defence source told Reuters ahead of a final decision by lawmakers on Wednesday. So far, Berlin has bought two IRIS-T units built by Diehl for Ukraine and …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The United Nations on Tuesday said the breach of the huge Soviet-era dam on the Dnipro river in Ukraine will have a huge impact on global food security, lead to a rise in food prices and could cause drinking water problems for hundreds of thousands. The dam, part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric …

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MILAN (Reuters) – Italy was preparing on Tuesday to bid farewell to former premier Silvio Berlusconi, a scandal-prone billionaire who dominated the country’s politics, business and soccer world for at least three decades. Berlusconi aged 86, three days after his readmission to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, and two months after it was revealed …

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BOGOTA (Reuters) – The eldest of the four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia’s southern jungle after a plane crash pulled her youngest sibling from the wreckage, the children’s grandfather said on Monday. The children, aged 1 through 13, survived the May 1 crash that killed their mother and …

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