STOCKHOLM, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Finland said on Friday it would procure Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) from the United States. Finland, which has a long border with Russia, in 2022 ordered 64 F-35 fighter jets made by U.S. defence group Lockheed Martin, with first deliveries planned for late next year. “The first missile …
BUCHAREST, Dec 12 (Reuters) – More than 500 Romanian judges and prosecutors have denounced what they say are systemic abuses in the justice system in one of the European Union’s most corrupt states, prompting President Nicusor Dan to call them in for consultations. A documentary aired on Tuesday purported to show how chief judges, who …
NICOSIA, Dec 12 – Moldova’s bid to join the European Union will be a priority for Cyprus when it takes over the bloc’s rotating presidency on January 1, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday, vowing to push for tangible progress in the coming months. “We will do everything possible in the next six months for …
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By Pavel Polityuk and Dan Peleschuk KYIV, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s government has no active candidates for the vacant position of energy minister, two sources familiar with the process said, underlining how a corruption scandal is complicating efforts to fill key posts at a critical time. More than four weeks after Svitlana Hrynchuk and …
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MOSCOW, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Kremlin foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said on Friday that a ceasefire in Ukraine is only possible after Kyiv’s forces withdraw from the entire Donbas region, with the area they currently control taken over by Russian National Guard, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported. “A ceasefire can only come about after the …
MOSCOW, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said on Friday that Moscow has not seen revised U.S. proposals made after the most recent talks with Ukraine, but that it may not like parts of them. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday Kyiv had agreed on key points of a post-war …
BUDAPEST, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Hungary protests against what it calls an “unlawful” step planned by European Union governments to freeze Russian assets indefinitely using a qualified majority vote, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a Facebook post on Friday. “Brussels will step over the Rubicon today, with a written voting starting which will cause …
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KYIV, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s special forces said on Friday they had conducted an operation alongside what they described as a local resistance movement to hit two Russian ships transporting weapons and military equipment in the Caspian sea. They did not specify when the strike took place. A Ukrainian official said on Thursday that …
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PRISTINA, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Kosovo has started accepting migrants deported from the United States and who are not originally from Kosovo, caretaker Prime Minister Albin Kurti said late on Thursday. Kosovo agreed to a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to initially take in 50 deportees. “We are accepting those that the U.S. did not …
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Dec 12 (Reuters) – Bulgarian lawmakers formally approved on Friday the resignation of the country’s minority government, a day after it bowed to mass street protests and said it would quit, paving the way for talks on forming a new coalition or most likely a snap election. Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyakov’s government announced on Thursday …
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