PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron plans to meet Iraq’s prime minister in early 2023, Macron’s office said on Sunday, adding that Paris would help Baghdad in its fight against attacks on its sovereignty. The French leader invited Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to France in early 2023, Macron’s office said in a statement after they spoke …
DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran on Sunday executed four men convicted of cooperating with Israel’s spy agency Mossad, Iranian state media reported. The Islamic Republic has long accused arch-enemy Israel of carrying out covert operations on its soil. Tehran has recently accused Israeli and Western intelligence services of plotting a civil war in Iran, which is now …
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By Timour Azhari and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) – Unemployed and unable to support his family of four, Hussein Hamadeh, 51, now spends his days trying to find help to weather a protracted economic crisis that some Lebanese fear has become the new norm. Hamadeh lost his stable job in carpentry and developed an illness …
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By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -A group of people tried to take a mural by graffiti artist Banksy in Ukraine on Friday by cutting it off a battle-scarred wall where it was painted, the governor of Kyiv region said. The group managed to slice off a section of board and plaster bearing the image of …
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(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc is planning to restart advertising on Twitter at about $100 million per year, pending some security tweaks to the social media company’s ads platform, according to a Platformer reporter tweet on Saturday. Twitter CEO Elon Musk also said Apple Inc has resumed advertising on the platform, according to a Bloomberg report, …
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By David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence expects the reduced tempo in fighting in Ukraine to continue in the next several months and sees no evidence of a reduced Ukrainian will to resist, despite attacks on its power grid and other critical winter infrastructure, the Director of National Intelligence said on …
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By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin is not sincere about peace talks with Ukraine while he is taking the war to a new level of “barbarism” by trying to turn off the lights of civilians, a top U.S. diplomat said on Saturday. U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland met President …
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Burkina Faso’s military government has suspended the broadcast of France’s RFI radio in the Sahel West African state over what it said were false reports and giving voice to Islamist militants, a statement from the government said on Saturday. The statement said RFI on Saturday broadcast a message from a leader of a …
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KYIV (Reuters) -The $60 price cap on seaborne Russian oil agreed by Group of Seven nations and Australia is not serious and will do little to deter Russia from waging war in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday. The European Union is now set to approve the cap after the G7 and Australia struck …
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ANKARA (Reuters) -Sweden on Friday deported a Kurdish man with alleged links to Kurdish militant group the PKK, a government minister told Swedish Television, as Ankara keeps up pressure on the Nordic country to meet its demands in return for NATO membership. Mahmut Tat had sought asylum in Sweden in 2015 after being sentenced in …
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