(Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke for the first time since May on Friday and a top Russian diplomat said the call was needed to eliminate misunderstandings, TASS news agency reported. The Pentagon declined to offer specifics beyond saying that Austin, who initiated the conversation, emphasized a need …
By Jonathan Spicer ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Sweden has taken “concrete action” to address Turkey’s concerns over its NATO membership bid, including stepping up counter-terrorism efforts against Kurdish militants, Stockholm told Ankara in a letter dated Oct. 6 and seen by Reuters. The two-page letter gives 14 examples of steps taken by Sweden to show it “is …
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ROME (Reuters) – Giorgia Meloni’s Italian government will be sworn in on Saturday at 10 a.m. (0800 GMT). Her cabinet will be made up of 24 ministers. Here the profiles of some of the key figures: ECONOMY MINISTER Giancarlo Giorgetti, 55, is a veteran political wheeler-dealer viewed as a moderate and relatively pro-European member of …
PARIS (Reuters) -France should unite in solidarity with the parents of a 12-year-old girl whose battered body was found last week in a suitcase outside her Paris home, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday, calling her murder an act of “extreme evil”. In his first public comments on the death of the girl, named Lola, …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Republicans will have the power to block aid to Ukraine if they win back control of Congress, but they are more likely to slow or pare back the flow of defense and economic assistance than stop it, analysts said. They might also use support for the Ukrainian war …
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(Reuters) -Russia said on Friday that Ukrainian forces had killed at least four people and wounded 13 more in a missile attack on civilians evacuating from the Russian-controlled city of Kherson. A Ukrainian official acknowledged an attack, but said it occurred after a civilian curfew. Russian-installed authorities in the southern Ukrainian region which Moscow proclaimed …
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(Reuters) -Iran advised its citizens on Friday not to travel to Ukraine and urged Iranians already there to leave, semi-official news agencies reported, a day after the United States accused Iran of helping Russia operate drones against Ukraine. The Iranian foreign ministry advisory did not refer to the U.S. allegation. It gave a telephone number …
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ROME (Reuters) – Giorgia Meloni said on Friday her rightist coalition had asked President Sergio Mattarella to name her as Italian prime minister following its Sept. 25 election victory. “There was a unanimous proposal of my name as the head of the new government,” she told reporters after the bloc held consultations with the president, …
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Friday he will meet with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson to discuss the Nordic country’s bid to join NATO, as well as the extradition of people Ankara considers terrorists. Erdogan also said Kristersson, who was recently appointed prime minister, sided with the fight …
(Reuters) – A Russian court on Thursday ordered the arrest of television journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, Interfax news agency said, more than six months after she flashed a sign on air saying the Kremlin was lying about the Ukraine war. Ovsyannikova has already fled Russia, her lawyer said this week, after refusing to observe house arrest …
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