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U.S. to announce $3 billion in new military aid for Ukraine -official

By Idrees Ali, Steve Holland and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will announce a new security assistance package for Ukraine of about $3 billion as early as Wednesday, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, in what would be the single largest tranche to Kyiv since Russia’s invasion six months ago. The package is …

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German coalition row brews over cheap transport offer

By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) – The leader of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats has suggested using a windfall tax on energy firms to pay for a successor to Germany’s summer experiment in all-but-free public transport, an idea opposed by his Free Democrat coalition allies. The suggestion, floated in an interview with broadcaster ZDF, follows …

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Slain daughter of Russian nationalist hailed at service as martyr

(This content was produced in Russia, where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine.) MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian politicians bade farewell at a service on Tuesday to Darya Dugina, the slain daughter of one of Russia’s most prominent nationalist ideologues, hailing her as a martyr whose death must inspire Russian forces fighting …

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Planned trials of Ukrainian prisoners in Mariupol concerning: UN rights office

GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. rights office on Tuesday voiced concerns about plans by Russian-backed authorities to try Ukrainian prisoners of war in Mariupol, possibly within days, saying that such a process could itself amount to a war crime. “We are very concerned about the manner in which this is being done. There are pictures …

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Fauci, face of U.S. COVID response, to step down from government posts

By Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) -Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease official who became the face of America’s COVID-19 pandemic response under Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden, announced on Monday he is stepping down in December after 54 years of public service. Fauci, whose efforts to fight the pandemic were applauded by many …

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Russia accuses Ukraine of killing nationalist’s daughter, Putin gives her award

(Reuters) -Russia’s Federal Security Service accused Ukraine’s secret services on Monday of killing Darya Dugina, the daughter of an ultra-nationalist, in a car bomb attack near Moscow that President Vladimir Putin called “evil”. Dugina, whose father Alexander Dugin is a prominent ideologue, was killed on Saturday when a bomb blew up the Toyota Land Cruiser …

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Iran says U.S. delaying on nuclear deal, U.S. sees progress

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran accused the United States on Monday of procrastinating in efforts to revive Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal – a charge denied by Washington, which said a deal was closer than two weeks ago because of apparent Iranian flexibility. After 16 months of fitful, indirect American-Iranian talks, with European Union officials …

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U.S. rejects Ukraine demand of blanket visa ban on Russians

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Monday rebuffed Ukraine’s demand for a blanket visa ban on Russians, saying Washington would not want to close off pathways to refuge for Russia’s dissidents and others who are vulnerable to human rights abuses. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had first urged the visa ban in an interview earlier …

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Tesla loses challenge to California agency suing for race bias

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A California administrative agency has declined to review Tesla Inc’s claim that the state’s civil rights watchdog suing the company for race bias at an assembly plant is rushing to sue businesses without conducting full investigations. California’s Office of Administrative Law in a letter denied Tesla’s petition, filed in June, to …

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