Dec 17 – More than two months after Israel and Hamas agreed a ceasefire halting two years of devastating warfare in Gaza, most fighting has stopped. However, both sides accuse each other of major breaches of the deal and look no closer to accepting the much more difficult steps envisaged for the next phase. WHAT …
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KYIV, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he saw no need to change Ukraine’s constitution, which enshrines its aim to become a NATO member state, days after offering to drop that ambition in exchange for hard security guarantees. A block on Ukraine joining the military alliance has consistently been a …
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BRUSSELS, Dec 18 (Reuters) – According to a draft document seen by Reuters, which could still change, European Union leaders will ask EU institutions to urgently adopt instruments to establish a reparations loan backed by cash balances linked to Russia’s frozen assets. The draft lists several conditions for the loan, including full respect for the …
PARIS, Dec 18 (Reuters) – France deployed its army to accelerate the vaccination of cattle against lumpy skin disease on Thursday, seeking to contain an outbreak that has fuelled a new wave of farmers’ protests in southern France. The army flew in hundreds of thousands of livestock vaccines to southwestern France, and will assist in …
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MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Belarus has deployed Russia’s new Oreshnik intermediate-range hypersonic missile system, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday. (Reporting by ReutersEditing by Andrew Osborn)
MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Russia has this year formed a military brigade equipped with its new hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile, TASS news agency quoted the chief of the general staff, Valery Gerasimov, as telling a briefing for foreign military attaches on Thursday. Russia fired the Oreshnik at Ukraine for the first time in November …
WARSAW, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal infringed fundamental principles of European law and cannot be considered independent and impartial because of irregularities in the appointment of judges, the European Union’s top court ruled on Thursday. During its two terms in government from 2015 to 2023, the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party introduced …
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By Catarina Demony LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Families, lawyers and supporters of the detained pro-Palestinian activists who are on hunger strike in Britain issued an urgent plea to the government on Thursday, warning that their loved ones face life-threatening danger. Eight people have joined the hunger strike, some from its start in early November, …
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COPENHAGEN, Dec 18 (Reuters) – The EU’s top court ruled on Thursday that Denmark’s 2018 “ghetto law,” which relocates residents from minority-heavy areas, could amount to ethnic discrimination, dealing a blow to the country’s integration policy. While many European governments once considered Denmark’s immigration policies too strict, the Nordic country has recently come to be …
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MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that an International Claims Commission for Ukraine launched by some European powers had no legal force for Russia and was driven by an attempt by European countries to spread propaganda against Russia. Europe launched an International Claims Commission for Ukraine on Tuesday in an …
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