MOSCOW (Reuters) -A top Russian diplomat said on Wednesday that Russia would swiftly carry out a nuclear test if the United States did so, noting that the U.S. had been working to get its testing infrastructure ready, the state RIA news agency reported. President Vladimir Putin said in October that Russia would carry out a …
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia will shoot down Tomahawk cruise missiles and bomb their launch sites if the United States decides to supply them to Ukraine and find a way to retaliate against Washington that hurts, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Wednesday. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would want to know what Ukraine …
BERLIN (Reuters) -The Swiss government on Wednesday extended its protection status offered to Ukrainian refugees to at least March 4, 2027, citing the ongoing instability caused by Russia’s 2022 invasion. Protection status S, which allows people to travel abroad as well as work in Switzerland, is generally limited to one year but can be extended. …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -A top Russian diplomat said on Wednesday that the impetus to find a peace deal to end the fighting in Ukraine which emerged after a summit between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump in August had proven to be largely exhausted. Trump and Putin met at a Cold War-era air force base …
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PARIS (Reuters) -Caretaker French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Wednesday that ministers in his short-lived government would not receive severance pay, aiming to set an example of the budget belt-tightening he says the country needs. Lecornu, France’s fifth prime minister in two years, resigned along with his cabinet on Monday – just hours after …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir prayed at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Wednesday and called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pursue “complete victory” over Hamas in Gaza. In a video on the edge of one of the most sensitive sites in the Middle East, Ben-Gvir said that …
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PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech election winner ANO hopes to conclude negotiations with two small parties on forming a new government by the beginning of November, party leader Andrej Babis said on Wednesday. The billionaire former prime minister’s populist ANO group won the October 3-4 parliamentary election and is on track to replace the centre-right cabinet of …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Three people were killed and one injured in a Ukrainian missile attack on Russia’s Belgorod region, the local governor said on Wednesday, and people might still be trapped under rubble. Vycheslav Gladkov, the governor, said in a statement on Telegram that the attack was carried out on a settlement called Maslova Pristan, which …
By Sam Tabahriti, Kanishka Singh and Catarina Demony LONDON/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated around the world on Tuesday against Israel’s assault on Gaza while vigils and other events commemorated Israeli victims on the second anniversary of the Hamas attack that sparked Israel’s war in the enclave. As indirect negotiations took place in Egypt on …
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ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey on Wednesday slammed an intervention by Israeli forces against a flotilla attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza as an act of piracy and a violation of international law. Turkey’s foreign ministry said the intervention against the Freedom Flotilla, including Turkish nationals and lawmakers, showed that the “genocidal” Israeli government targeted all …
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