By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered Russia’s first mobilisation since World War Two and backed a plan to annex swathes of Ukraine, warning the West he was not bluffing when he said he’d be ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia. In the biggest escalation of the Ukraine war …
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By Ivelisse Rivera and Ezequiel Abiu Lopez SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) -Hurricane Fiona slammed into the Turks and Caicos Islands as a powerful Category 3 storm on Tuesday, dumping heavy rains and triggering floods on the Caribbean archipelago after cutting a path of destruction through the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. U.S. officials said …
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By Tom Balmforth IZIUM, Ukraine (Reuters) – Alexander Glushko says he spent the last fortnight of the Russian occupation of his hometown of Izium in northeast Ukraine jailed by Russian soldiers in the dank ruins of a police station where he was tortured with electric wires. He said he was also beaten during an earlier …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Wednesday said Russia’s mobilisation order is a sign of panic at the Kremlin, that should not be taken as a direct threat of full-out war with the West. “The mobilisation, calling for referenda in the Donetsk, it is all a sign of panic. His rhetoric on …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke for the second time in less than a week in a televised speech on Wednesday, appearing healthy after a report that he had been under observation by a team of doctors. The New York Times reported on Sept. 16 that Khamenei, 83, had cancelled all meetings …
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By Karen Freifeld, Luc Cohen and Sarah N. Lynch NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. judge named to review documents seized by the FBI last month at Donald Trump’s Florida home pressed Trump’s lawyers on Tuesday to say whether they plan to assert that the records had been declassified by the former president, as he has …
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By Jimin Kang and Amanda Perobelli SALVADOR, Brazil (Reuters) – For the first time in its 132-year history, the Brazilian census now underway includes a question counting members of the “quilombo” communities founded by runaway slaves. On Ilha de Mare, an island with several quilombos off the coast of Salvador, in northeast Brazil, this chance …
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By John Irish UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron accused Russia of a modern day imperialism that was based on the law of the jungle and pleaded on Tuesday for neutral countries to stop being complicit by remaining silent about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a speech to world leaders at the United …
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By Sabine Siebold PRISTINA/MITROVICA (Reuters) – NATO is ready to ramp up troops in Kosovo if tensions among minority Serbs flare again, the deputy commander of the alliance’s peacekeeping mission (KFOR) said on Tuesday as a deadline in a spat with the government over car license plates approaches. “We are vigilant and ready to act…if …
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By Parisa Hafezi, John Irish and Trevor Hunnicutt NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran and the West remained at loggerheads on Tuesday over U.N. probes of uranium traces at three Iranian sites as the United States said it did not expect a breakthrough on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal at this week’s U.N. General Assembly. …
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