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Around 25 NATO peacekeepers injured in clashes in Kosovo’s north -statement

29 May 2023

LEPOSAVIC, Kosovo (Reuters) – Around 25 NATO peacekeepers have been injured in clashes with Serbs protesting against Albanian mayors taking office in Serb majority municipalities in the north of Kosovo, the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo KFOR said in a statement. “While countering the most active fringes of the crowd, several soldiers of the Italian …

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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy pays tribute to Americans who fought in war

29 May 2023

(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy paid tribute on Monday to U.S. nationals who have fought in the 15-month-old war against Russian invaders, saying they were devoted to upholding the values of freedom. “We Ukrainians will always be grateful to the U.S. and every American for extraordinary support,” Zelenskiy, standing outside his office in Kyiv, …

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Spain’s PM Sanchez calls snap general election in July

29 May 2023

MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday he would dissolve parliament and the country would hold an early general election on July 23 following the results of Sunday’s local elections. “I took the decision when looking at the results of the elections of yesterday,” Sanchez told the nation in a televised address. …

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Belarus’s Lukashenko says there can be ‘nuclear weapons for everyone’

29 May 2023

(Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that if any other country wanted to join a Russia-Belarus union there could be “nuclear weapons for everyone”. Russia moved ahead last week with a plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, in the Kremlin’s first deployment of such warheads outside Russia since the 1991 fall of …

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Russia puts U.S. Senator Graham on wanted list – Russian media

29 May 2023

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s interior ministry has put U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham on a wanted list, Russian media reported on Monday, citing the ministry’s database. In an edited video released by the Ukrainian president’s office of Graham’s meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday, Graham was shown saying “the Russians are dying” and then saying U.S. …

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Best actress at Cannes returns to polarised Turkey on runoff day

29 May 2023

By Deniz Uyar  ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Merve Dizdar, best actress winner at the Cannes Film Festival, returned to Turkey on Sunday and was met both by cheering fans and sharp criticism, highlighting the extreme polarisation in the country. Dizdar, who delivered an emotional speech on the struggle of women in Turkey upon receiving her prize …

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Ukraine forces shell settlements in Russia’s Belgorod border region – governor

29 May 2023

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, said on Monday that several frontier settlements were being shelled simultaneously by Ukrainian forces. In a statement published on the Telegram messaging app, Vyacheslav Gladkov said two industrial facilities in the border town of Shebekino had been shelled and four employees had been …

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Spain’s conservative PP needs pact with far-right Vox to rule in regions

29 May 2023

By Inti Landauro MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s conservative People’s Party (PP), which elbowed out the ruling Socialists during local elections on Sunday, must ally with far-right group Vox to rule in various regions ahead of an end-of-year national vote. With voters fed up at squabbling within Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s government coalition, the opposition PP …

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Turkey’s Erdogan prevails in election test of his 20-year rule

28 May 2023

By Can Sezer, Ali Kucukgocmen and Huseyin Hayatsever ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan extended his two decades in power in elections on Sunday, winning a mandate to pursue increasingly authoritarian policies which have polarised Turkey and strengthened its position as a regional military power. His challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, called it “the most unfair election …

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