(Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday condemned Russia’s incursion of drones into Polish airspace as “reckless and escalatory” and said Ottawa was closely coordinating with its NATO allies. Carney said in a statement that the incident showed the need to increase pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war on Ukraine. …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Davis Cup team are expecting to play their Davis Cup World Group I tie against Poland in Gdynia this weekend despite the country and NATO allies shooting down drones that violated Polish airspace overnight on Tuesday. It was the first time a member of the Western military alliance is known to have …
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VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, issued an evacuation order on Wednesday for residents within a one-kilometre (0.62 mile) radius of a rail station after a train carrying liquefied petrochemical gas (LPG) ignited and exploded during reloading. The fire was reported at 9:30 a.m. (0630 GMT), but by afternoon, 40 firemen who were on site were …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian state television played down Poland’s accusation that Moscow had flown drones over the NATO member, focussing instead on alleged saboteurs, Israel’s strike on Qatar, protests in Paris and a regional train called the “nightingale”. After Poland said it had shot down drones in its airspace, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk cast the …
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PARIS (Reuters) -A man who stabbed a teacher and a student at a horticultural school in the southern French town of Antibes has been arrested, police said on Wednesday. “The attacker has been arrested, he is no longer a threat,” a police spokesperson said. Police said the attacker was a former student at the school …
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By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – France’s new prime minister, Sebastien Lecornu, pledged to find creative ways to work with rivals to pass a debt-slimming budget while also promising new policy directions, after taking office on a day of sprawling anti-government protests on Wednesday. President Emmanuel Macron picked Lecornu to be his fifth prime minister …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland shot down drones that entered its airspace during a Russian attack on Ukraine on Wednesday, the first time a NATO member state has fired shots in the war. Here are some details of the events overnight, actions taken by Poland and the response of its allies. WHAT HAPPENED OVERNIGHT? Poland, which is …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -A new agreement between Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog does not guarantee inspectors’ access to Iranian nuclear sites and Tehran wants further talks on how inspections are carried out, the country’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reached a deal on Tuesday on resuming inspections …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Human rights lawyers filed a lawsuit against an Israeli soldier of German origin over suspected involvement in the targeted killing of unarmed Palestinian civilians in Gaza. The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and three Palestinian human rights organisations said they filed a criminal complaint with Germany’s federal prosecutor against a sniper …
By Markus Wacket Berlin, September 10 (Reuters) -The German government approved new rules on Wednesday that legally oblige operators of critical infrastructure in the country to protect their plants and networks. The rules come in response to a sharp deterioration in the security environment since Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine and a growing awareness …
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