By Charlie Devereux MADRID (Reuters) -The hot, dry and windy conditions this summer that fueled the worst wildfires in Spain for at least three decades are 40 times more likely to recur due to human-caused climate change, according to an analysis by World Weather Attribution. World Weather Attribution is an international collaboration that has conducted …
By Olivia Le Poidevin, Andrea Shalal and Emma Farge GENEVA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House has quietly dropped the World Trade Organization from a list of $4.9 billion in foreign aid cuts announced last Friday after the move sparked concern among lawmakers, trade groups and the head of the global trade body. Democratic lawmakers said the …
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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) -Russian foreign ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that allegations about Russia being behind jamming the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s airplane were fake and paranoia. An EU spokesperson had said the GPS system of von der Leyen’s airplane was jammed while en route on Sunday to Bulgaria, adding …
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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) -Russia has no plans to discuss any potential foreign military deployment in Ukraine in any format, calling it “unacceptable”, foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters on Thursday. She was commenting on remarks by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on plans to send European troops to Ukraine, a move, which …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that its troops had captured “about half” of the city of Kupiansk in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, but Ukraine’s military denied any such advance. Reuters could not independently confirm the battlefield reports from either side. Kupiansk has been the focus of months of increased Russian military activity …
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By Andrew Osborn, Gleb Stolyarov and Anton Kolodyazhnyy MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin told Kyiv on Wednesday there was a chance to end the war in Ukraine via negotiations “if common sense prevails”, an option he said he preferred, but that he was ready to end it by force if that was the only …
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By Anastasiia Malenko and Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for more pressure on Moscow on Wednesday, beginning a visit to European allies he hopes will unveil plans for security guarantees for Kyiv even as Russian forces launched their latest massive air attack. Russia attacked with more than 500 drones and dozens …
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By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he plans to hold talks about the war in Ukraine in coming days after his Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in August failed to achieve a breakthrough. Trump has been frustrated at his inability to get a halt …
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ROME (Reuters) -An Italian appeals court on Wednesday reviewed the case for extraditing a Ukrainian man suspected by Germany of coordinating attacks on three Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in 2022, but adjourned the case to September 9, his lawyer said. The 49-year-old man, identified only as Serhii K. under German privacy …
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By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, headed for a difficult election in a month, told supporters on Wednesday that his main opponent Andrej Babis would put the country’s democracy and position in Europe under threat by making deals with extremist parties. Fiala’s SPOLU (Together) centre-right coalition faces an uphill battle in …
