(Reuters) -The U.S. could take a lead role in monitoring a buffer zone between Ukraine and Russia if and when a peace deal is reached, U.S. broadcaster NBC News reported on Friday. The buffer, envisaged to protect Ukraine from further Russian attacks, would be a large demilitarised zone and could additionally be secured by troops …
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By Lucy Papachristou TBILISI (Reuters) -The president of Georgia said on Friday he had pardoned two jailed opposition politicians, citing a need to maintain electoral competitiveness ahead of municipal elections next month in the South Caucasus country. Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze, leading figures in the opposition Lelo for Georgia party, were sentenced to eight …
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(This Sept 3 story has been corrected to fix picture captions with no changes to text) By Jeff Mason, Andrea Shalal and Anna Koper WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the U.S. could increase its troop presence in Poland and pledged to secure the country’s defense during a White House meeting with its …
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(Refiles September 4 story to fix spelling of last name to Clifford-Carlos, including hyphen) By Charlotte Van Campenhout and Bart Biesemans HEERLEN, Netherlands (Reuters) -Veronica Clifford-Carlos, a 28-year-old artist from San Francisco hoping to win political asylum in the Netherlands, says she had always planned to build her life in the U.S. but changed her …
BERLIN (Reuters) -A suspect in the stabbing of a teacher at a school in the city of Essen has been injured by gunfire during his arrest, German police said on X on Friday. The suspect, who is now receiving medical care, had been at large after a teacher was injured and brought to hospital in …
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(Reuters) -China commemorated 80 years since the end of World War Two this week with a massive military parade against a backdrop of a disputed history about who ultimately defeated Japan. The issues, including Japan’s reckoning with its wartime record in China, are bound to flare again in December, a flashpoint anniversary of the mass …
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By Vladimir Soldatkin VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that any Western troops deployed to Ukraine would be legitimate targets for Moscow to attack, in a warning to Kyiv’s allies as they discuss measures for its future protection. Putin was speaking a day after French President Emmanuel Macron said 26 countries …
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HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland is joining a declaration on a peaceful resolution of the Palestinian question and implementation of a two-state solution, the Nordic country said in a statement on Friday. The declaration is the result of an international conference at the U.N. in July hosted by Saudi Arabia and France on the decades-long conflict. The …
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By Sergio Goncalves and Andrei Khalip LISBON (Reuters) -Portuguese authorities were investigating on Thursday what caused a Lisbon funicular railway popular with tourists to hurtle down a hill, killing at least 16 people and injuring 22 more when it crashed into a building on Wednesday. The Prosecutor General’s office said coroners had so far identified …
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(Reuters) -Belarus has arrested a Polish national on suspicion of espionage for having documents related to forthcoming Belarusian-Russian military exercises, media quoted state television as reporting on Thursday. Poland said the move was a provocation that would receive a response. The Belarusian state Belta news agency, quoting Belarus-1 television, reported that agents from the state …
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