By Terje Solsvik and Gwladys Fouche OSLO, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado said she planned to take her award back to Venezuela, but declined to say on Thursday when she would return to her home country after leaving in great secrecy to receive the honour. Venezuelan opposition leader Machado …
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LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Leaders of the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ group of nations discussed progress on mobilising frozen Russian sovereign assets during a virtual meeting on Thursday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office said. The call came a day after Britain, France and Germany spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump about Washington’s latest …
By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS, Dec 11 (Reuters) – European Union governments want to agree on Friday to freeze Russian central bank assets immobilised in Europe for as long as necessary, replacing the need for a vote to renew the freeze every six months, EU diplomats said. The move is the basis for the EU’s plan …
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By Sudip Kar-Gupta and Lefteris Papadimas BRUSSELS, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Greece’s finance minister was on Thursday named head of the Eurogroup, the body that helps shape euro zone policy, underlining his country’s turnaround since the years when it came close to crashing out of the single currency. Kyriakos Pierrakakis saw off the rival Belgian …
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MOSCOW/KYIV, Dec 11 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin thanked the Russian army on Thursday after commanders told him that their forces had taken full control of the town of Siversk in eastern Ukraine, but Ukraine’s military said it remained in control there. Reuters could not verify the battlefield claim around Siversk, a longstanding target in …
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By Yuliia Dysa KYIV, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Ukraine has presented the U.S. with a revised 20-point framework to end its war with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday, adding that the issue of ceding territory remains a major sticking point in negotiations. Speaking to reporters in Kyiv, Zelenskiy said the U.S. is offering …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt Dec 11 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump says he should get the Nobel Peace Prize after wading into eight conflicts since taking office in January. But the issues that caused them remain unresolved and conflict has flared again in some of the regions, including the Democratic Republic of Congo and along the …
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Dec 11 (Reuters) – A fire which destroyed a stand at Finnish club FC Haka’s Tehtaan Kentta stadium on Sunday was started deliberately, Finnish police said on Wednesday. Police said one of three suspects, all under the age of 15 according to Finnish broadcaster YLE, had admitted setting fire to an item that sparked the …
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BERLIN, Dec 11 (Reuters) – NATO chief Mark Rutte on Thursday urged allies to step up defence efforts to prevent a war waged by Russia, that could be “on the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured”. In a speech in Berlin, Rutte said too many allies of the military alliance did not feel …
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BARCELONA, Dec 11 (Reuters) – In a sunlit Barcelona studio, models pose in garments stitched and screen-printed by migrants who once played cat-and-mouse with police to sell counterfeit goods on the Spanish city’s streets. Behind the scenes, a dozen workers at Top Manta – a cooperative of former street vendors – cut, stitch and print …
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