MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarus’ foreign ministry said on Friday that it had ordered a Czech diplomat to leave the country and summoned a senior Polish diplomat for a meeting, after both countries expelled Belarusian diplomatic staff. The Czech Republic and Poland this month expelled Belarusian diplomats for espionage. Poland also arrested another person it alleged …
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – MI6 chief Richard Moore said on Friday that he sees “no evidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin has any interest in a negotiated peace short of Ukrainian capitulation. In a speech in Istanbul to announce plans to use the dark web to recruit informants and receive secret information from agents in Russia and …
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo said on Friday his government supported the efforts made by the European Commission to monetize underlying frozen Russian assets held in the EU to help finance the Ukrainian government. “From Spain, we’ve been advocating for increasing as much as possible the financing for Ukraine…” Cuerpo said in …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher hopes the world body will fight back against a “sustained attack” on its values and finances next week at an annual gathering of world leaders, and said humanitarians could not afford to wait for the U.S. to restore funding. Aid worker killings rose …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Suspected fragments of a missile believed to have been used to shoot down a drone may have been found in the eastern Lublin region, Polish military police said, more than a week after Poland, backed by NATO jets, shot down Russian drones in its airspace. The Lublin branch of the military police is …
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(Reuters) – A strong earthquake struck Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka region, the regional governor said on Friday, prompting a series of tsunami warnings in the region, but despite waves reaching the shore, there were no reports of damage. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was measured at a magnitude of 7.8 and at a …
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(Reuters) -A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Chile’s Tarapaca region on Friday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. The quake was at a depth of 89 km (55.92 miles), EMSC said. (Reporting by Anusha Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by Jamie Freed)
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese departs for the U.S. this week, raising expectations of a first meeting with President Donald Trump, where the AUKUS defence partnership and China are likely to dominate talks between the security allies. According to his office, Albanese departs on Saturday for the United Nations General …
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(Reuters) – Euro 2024 champions Spain have climbed to the top of the FIFA rankings for the first time in 11 years while Germany dropped out of the top 10, world soccer’s governing body said. France moved up to second in the latest rankings published on Thursday with reigning World Cup champions Argentina slipping to …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States vetoed on Thursday a draft United Nations Security Council resolution that would have demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and that Israel lift all restrictions on aid deliveries to the Palestinian enclave. The text, drafted by the elected 10 members of the …
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