BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government is ready to review reservations with regard to military export rules that affect joint defence projects, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday. “Some may be surprised but the German government is prepared to do this,” he said in Berlin according to the script of a speech. Scholz was …
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SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia was ready to provide more than 300,000 tonnes of Russian fertilisers stuck in European ports to the developing world for free. Speaking at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Uzbekistan, Putin said Europe had only “partially” removed sanctions that Moscow says block its …
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By Tom Balmforth and Vitalii Hnidyi KYIV/KUPIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukrainian authorities found a mass grave containing 440 bodies in a northeastern city recaptured from Russian forces, calling it proof of war crimes carried out by the invaders in territory they had occupied for months. “Russia is leaving death behind it everywhere and must be held …
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(Reuters) -Ukrainian authorities have found a mass grave of more than 440 bodies in the eastern city of Izium that was recaptured from Russian forces, a regional police official said on Thursday, adding some of the people had been killed by shelling and air strikes. Serhiy Bolvinov, the chief police investigator for Kharkiv region, told …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Azerbaijan’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday that 71 of its servicemen had been killed during clashes this week on the border with Armenia. Fighting along the border of the two countries, which have been at loggerheads over the breakway region of Nagorno-Karabakh since the 1980s, erupted afresh on Tuesday. Armenia said 105 …
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By Cecile Mantovani, Maria Tsvetkova and Christian Lowe GENEVA (Reuters) – A former deputy spokesman at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant who helped tell the world that Russian troops had seized the strategic site, is now in exile, no longer in his job and, according to a document from his ex-employer, is suspected by Ukrainian …
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By Tom Balmforth IZIUM, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said towns and villages recaptured from Russian forces had been devastated, while a major city stepped up efforts on Thursday to repair damage to its water system from missile attacks. Kryvyi Rih, the largest city in central Ukraine with an estimated pre-war population of 650,000, …
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(Reuters) -The southern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih faced rising water levels in the Inhulets River on Wednesday after Russia fired eight cruise missiles at local infrastructure, an official said. Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the interior minister, posted a video of what appeared to be a small bridge being washed away. “Rockets were directed …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng is considering scrapping caps on bankers’ bonuses to boost London’s post-Brexit competitiveness against financial capitals like New York and Hong Kong, a source familiar with Kwarteng’s thinking said. Prime Minister Liz Truss has promised to “really unshackle” the City of London after Britain left the European Union and …
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By Tom Balmforth IZIUM, Ukraine (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy promised he would lead Ukraine to victory in its war against Russia as he visited recaptured towns on Wednesday, while pro-Russian officials claimed to have halted Kyiv’s forces for now. Russian forces suffered a stunning reversal this month after Ukrainian troops made a rapid armoured …
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