By Jan Strupczewski and Julia Payne BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission will delay presenting its next Russia sanctions package, EU officials said on Tuesday, as the bloc tries to respond to the Trump administration’s demand that it play a stronger role in depriving Russia of energy revenues. The Commission had been expected to present …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. Human Rights Chief called on Israel to immediately stop its ground assault on Gaza City that got underway on Tuesday, saying that evidence was mounting of war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly more. “I can only think of what it means for women, for malnourished children, for people with disabilities, …
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MILAN (Reuters) – A Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating attacks on Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea plans to take his fight against extradition to Italy’s highest court after a lower court ordered his transfer to Germany. The man, identified only as Serhii K. under German privacy laws, was arrested last month near …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish state broadcaster RTVE’s board voted on Tuesday to withdraw from the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in May in Vienna if Israel takes part in the event. Spain is the fifth country to make such a pledge after the Netherlands, Slovenia, Iceland and Ireland, and the first of the …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -An official of the United Nations’ children’s agency said on Tuesday it was “inhumane” to expect hundreds of thousands of children to leave Gaza City as camps further south were unsafe, overcrowded and ill-equipped to receive them. Israel announced on Tuesday the start of its long-awaited ground operation into Gaza City, the main …
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SOFIA (Reuters) -Police in Bulgaria have arrested the Russian owner of a ship that brought the explosive material that detonated at Beirut port in August 2020, killing more than 200 people, Bulgarian media reported on Tuesday. Igor Grechushkin, a Russian businessman based in Cyprus, was detained for possible extradition to Lebanon, where he is wanted …
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By Aaron Ross NAIROBI (Reuters) -U.N. investigators on Tuesday accused South Sudanese authorities of plundering their country’s wealth, including by paying $1.7 billion to companies affiliated with Vice President Benjamin Bol Mel for road construction work that was never done. The payments from 2021 to 2024 were just one example of “grand corruption” in the …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union’s 19th package of sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine was removed from the agenda of a meeting of EU government representatives in Brussels on Wednesday, EU diplomats said. The meeting of ambassadors of EU governments to the European Union, called the COREPER, was to discuss the package that …
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By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) -It’s more than a year since Anastasiia Tsvietkova’s husband went missing fighting the Russians near the eastern city of Pokrovsk, and she doesn’t know whether he’s alive or dead. Russia does not routinely provide information about those captured or killed, and there has been no news from fellow soldiers or …
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(Reuters) -Russia hopes a new round of talks can be scheduled with U.S. representatives this autumn to clear up irritants in their relations, a senior diplomat was quoted as saying early on Tuesday. The United States and Russia held two sets of talks in Istanbul largely devoted to diplomacy and the operation of embassies – …
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