By Makini Brice and Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron was on Thursday searching for his sixth prime minister in under two years, hoping his next pick can steer a budget through a legislature riven by crisis. Macron’s office said late on Wednesday he would appoint a new prime minister within 48 hours, …
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(Reuters) -U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the agreement to secure a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza on Thursday and said it represented a path toward self-determination of the Palestinian people. “I urge all to seize this momentous opportunity to establish a credible political path forward,” Guterres said at the United Nations. “A path towards …
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By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Jonathan Spicer ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey aims to take part in a “task force” overseeing the newly-agreed ceasefire in Gaza and the implementation of its articles, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, as Ankara appeared to have emerged as a key player in both the negotiations and execution of the deal. A …
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PRAGUE (Reuters) -Andrej Babis spoke to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday for the first time since he won last weekend’s Czech election and began talks on forming a coalition with right-wing parties that is pledging less support for Kyiv. Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s outgoing centre-right government was quick to send tanks and military aid …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Thursday that efforts by Russia and the United States to end the conflict in Ukraine were still alive, state news agency TASS reported, appearing to contradict remarks from a top Russian diplomat a day earlier. On Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that the momentum from …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin told Azerbaijan’s leader that two Russian missiles had detonated beside an Azerbaijan Airlines plane last year after Ukrainian drones entered Russian air space, in an incident that led to the deaths of 38 people. In what was the Kremlin leader’s most candid admission to date that Moscow was to …
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By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine has yet to convince Donald Trump to put sufficient pressure on Russia to force it to negotiate a peace deal, so it has deployed a new lobbying tactic: nominate the U.S. president for the Nobel Peace Prize. With Trump openly coveting the prestigious award, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy floated the …
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ROME (Reuters) -Italian swimmers Benedetta Pilato and Chiara Tarantino have been suspended for 90 days following a shoplifting incident at Singapore airport, their federation said on Thursday. The Italian Swimming Federation (FIN) said the punishment was meted out taking into account the two athletes’ admission of responsibility and their cooperative stance. Pilato, 20, is a …
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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo made an urgent plea for the world to help immigrants in his first major document, which was released on Thursday and invoked one of the late Pope Francis’ strongest criticisms of U.S. President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies. Leo’s document, known as an apostolic exhortation, is focused on …
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By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) -The grave of former French justice minister Robert Badinter was desecrated on Thursday, hours before President Emmanuel Macron is set to dedicate a cenotaph in his memory in a Paris mausoleum, one of the highest honours in France. “Shame on those who sought to tarnish his memory. Tonight, he will …
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