By Rowena Edwards and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) – The European Union has proposed a phased embargo of Russian oil but may find it tricky to implement, given Europe’s complex distribution network and challenges in tracking crude once it is blended or refined. The plan, if agreed by member states, would take effect in six …
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MESEBERG, Germany (Reuters) – Germany will end its participation in the European Union training mission in Mali but is ready to continue with a U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country under certain conditions, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Wednesday. France and allies fighting Islamist militants in Mali earlier this year said they would pull …
By Michel Rose and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -France’s Socialist Party and the hard-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party reached an agreement in principle on Wednesday to form an alliance for June’s parliamentary election. The coalition pact, which the Greens and Communists agreed to earlier this week, is an attempt to deprive Macron of a …
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KYIV (Reuters) -A 14-year-old boy was killed and a 17-year-old girl was wounded in a missile strike in the southern port of Odesa, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday. Zelenskiy said the missile hit a dormitory. “How did these children and the dormitory threaten the Russian state?” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. …
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(Reuters) – Russia unleashed rockets on Tuesday on an encircled steel works in Mariupol, Ukraine’s last redoubt in the port city, after a ceasefire broke down with some civilians still trapped beneath the sprawling site despite a U.N.-brokered evacuation. FIGHTING * At least 10 people were killed and 15 wounded by Russian shelling of a …
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By Nelson Banya and Helen Reid JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Mining companies in South Africa have resorted to trucking coal to ports to meet a surge in European demand since the war in Ukraine started, bypassing the deteriorating rail infrastructure they blame for billions of dollars in lost revenue. Poor maintenance, a lack of spare parts …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Tuesday that he is willing to work with international organisations to help lift the Russian embargo on Ukrainian food exports via the Black Sea, Macron’s office said. The Elysee office also said Macron had reiterated that a ceasefire …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – The head of the Red Cross in Ukraine said on Tuesday that an unknown number of civilians remained trapped in Mariupol and surrounding areas after it evacuated more than 100 civilians from the Azovstal plant. “We would have hoped that many more people would have been able to join the convoy and …
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By Jonathan Landay and Pavel Polityuk KYIV/BUCHA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Olha Boholey still had at least an hour to wait more than two hours after she pulled into the line of vehicles crawling into the only service station selling gasoline in the devastated Kyiv suburb of Bucha. If she reached a pump before it went …
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(Reuters) – Slovakia will seek an exemption from any embargo of Russian oil agreed by the European Union in its next set of sanctions against Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, Slovakia’s Economy Ministry said on Tuesday. The European Commission is preparing a sixth package of sanctions against Russia and is expected to finalise work …
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