STOCKHOLM, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Denmark faces more external threats than it has done in many years amid rising geopolitical conflicts and doubts over U.S. commitment to Europe’s security, the NATO country’s military intelligence agency (FE) said on Wednesday. “The world’s great powers are increasingly prioritising their own interests and using force to achieve their …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Defence Minister Richard Marles said Australia was “very self-critical” as it looked to address challenges, including skilling its workforce, for the AUKUS nuclear submarine programme, ahead of AUKUS defence ministers meeting in Washington. A Pentagon review of AUKUS had found areas to put the deal on the …
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By Alvise Armellini and Gianluca Semeraro CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Pope Leo said Europe must play a central role in efforts to end the war in Ukraine, warning that any peace plan sidelining the continent is “not realistic.” Speaking to journalists on Tuesday hours after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the pontiff …
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Dec 9 (Reuters) – Ukrainian troops have been holding parts of the beleaguered city of Pokrovsk since mid-November, but some units were ordered to withdraw from impractical positions outside the city in the past week, Ukraine’s top commander was quoted as saying on Tuesday. But Oleksandr Syrskyi, speaking to Ukrainian journalists, said the situation around …
By Yuliia Dysa and Dan Peleschuk KYIV, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he was prepared to hold elections within three months if the U.S. and Kyiv’s other allies could ensure the security of the vote. Wartime elections are forbidden by law but Zelenskiy, whose term expired last year, is …
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SYDNEY, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Australia on Wednesday will become the world’s first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet’s YouTube and Meta’s Instagram and Facebook. The ban is being closely watched by other countries considering similar age-based measures as concerns mount over the effects of …
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By Angeliki Koutantou and Renee Maltezou ATHENS, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Greek farmers continued their nationwide blockades on Tuesday, disrupting traffic along major motorways and intermittently closing border crossings to protest delays in farm aid payments. Farmers have deployed thousands of tractors and trucks in dozens of blockades as they face a shortfall of more than 600 …
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MOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters) – A Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritsky and NASA astronaut Jonathan Kim has returned to Earth, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said on Tuesday. The spacecraft landed at 08:04 Moscow time (05:04 GMT) near the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan, the agency said. (Reporting by Reuters; editing …
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By Gwladys Fouche and Terje Solsvik OSLO, Dec 9 (Reuters) – The Norwegian Nobel Institute cancelled a planned press conference on Tuesday with this year’s Peace Prize laureate, Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado, ahead of Wednesday’s award ceremony in Oslo. Machado, 58, has been subject to a decade-long travel ban imposed by the government of President …
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GENEVA, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Thousands of children have been admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition in Gaza since an October ceasefire that was supposed to enable a major increase in humanitarian aid, the U.N. children’s agency said on Tuesday. UNICEF, the biggest provider of malnutrition treatment in Gaza, said that 9,300 children were treated …
