MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez will defend his undisputed super middleweight title against England’s John Ryder in May in Guadalajara, Mexico, he said on Tuesday. It will be the first time in more than 11 years that Alvarez has fought at home since stopping Kermit Cintron in five rounds in Mexico City to retain …
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By Kanishka Singh and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will host Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Friday for a meeting where they will express support for the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement and the recent deal between Britain and the European Union on post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland, the White …
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By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S military MQ-9 surveillance drone crashed into the Black Sea on Tuesday after being intercepted by Russian fighter jets, in the first such incident since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine over a year ago. The Pentagon said that one of the Russian Su-27 jets struck the …
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By Mike Collett-White NEAR KREMINNA, Ukraine (Reuters) – The United States condemned the downing of a U.S. spy drone by a Russian fighter jet over the Black Sea on Tuesday, in an incident that underscored how the Ukraine war has increased the risk of direct confrontation between Moscow and Washington. Two Russian Su-27 jets carried …
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(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Germany’s response to the explosion on North Sea pipelines showed that the country remained “occupied” and unable to act independently decades after its surrender at the end of World War Two. Putin, interviewed on Russian television, also said European leaders had been browbeaten into losing their sense of …
By Sabine Siebold BERGEN TRAINING GROUND, Germany (Reuters) – Ukrainian troops fired the 120mm guns of their Leopard tanks at a German shooting range on Monday, a few days before they were due to return home with the “cats” they hope will give Kyiv a breakthrough in what has become a grinding war of attrition. …
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KOBLENZ, Germany (Reuters) – Two girls are suspected of killing a 12-year-old schoolgirl who was found dead in a woodland area in western Germany at the weekend, prosecutors said on Tuesday. In a case that has shocked Germany, police found the body of a girl, named only as Luise, near a cycle path in woodland …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian official said a landmark deal allowing Ukraine to export grain through its Black Sea ports has been extended for 60 days, though Kyiv said it would stick to a 120-day extension and Turkey said talks were ongoing. Since Russia and Ukraine signed the U.N.-backed Black Sea Grain Initiative in Turkey on …
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(Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Kyiv’s position means Russia’s goals in Ukraine can only be achieved by military force, Russian state news agencies quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying. “We have to achieve our goals. Right now this is only possible by military means due to the current position of the …
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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine will stick to the terms of an agreement it signed last year on a 120-day extension of the Black Sea grain export initiative, a senior Ukrainian government official said on Tuesday. “We will follow the agreement strictly,” the official, who declined to be named, told Reuters. Russia’s TASS …
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