By Anastasiia Malenko KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian former parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in the western city of Lviv on Saturday and a search was under way for the killer. The Prosecutor General’s office said a gunman had fired several shots at Parubiy, killing him on the spot. The attacker fled and a manhunt …
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By Andreas Rinke BONN, Germany (Reuters) -Germany’s federal government will begin helping municipalities to pay down old debts from January 1, 2026, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Saturday, two weeks before his government faces its first electoral test since taking office. Merz made the pledge at the party conference of his Christian Democrats, or CDU, …
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By Andrew Gray COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -The European Union will examine how to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s defence and reconstruction after the war but confiscating them now is not politically realistic, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Saturday. Some 210 billion euros ($245.85 billion) of Russian assets are frozen in the …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Saturday he expected that Russia would only stop its war against Ukraine once it could no longer wage it for economic and military reasons, given that diplomatic efforts in recent weeks had failed. “All efforts of the past weeks have been answered with an even more aggressive …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Russia launched a sweeping attack on Ukraine which killed one person, injured at least 24 others, and damaged infrastructure and residential buildings, authorities said on Saturday. Three children were among the 24 wounded in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, its Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reported impacts on 14 …
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By Andrew Gray COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -European Union foreign ministers on Saturday were deeply split over the war in Gaza, with some calling for the EU to apply strong economic pressure on Israel while others made clear they were unwilling to go that far. “We are divided about this issue,” Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy …
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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -The head of the Red Cross warned on Saturday that it would be impossible to keep people safe during a mass evacuation of Gaza City, as Israel intensifies its assault. Israel is pushing ahead with its plan to take full control of the whole Gaza Strip, starting with Gaza …
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By Leila Miller BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -They look like ordinary foals, docile with honey brown coats and white facial patches, content to spend their days munching alfalfa in a cordoned-off pasture in rural Buenos Aires province. But these five 10-month-olds are the world’s first genetically edited horses: cloned copies of a prize-winning horse named Polo Pureza, …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian military said on Saturday that it had struck Russian oil refineries in Krasnodar and Syzran overnight. Kyiv’s military recorded multiple explosions and a fire at the Krasnodar oil refinery in Russia’s south, which produces 3 million tonnes of light petroleum products annually. Russian authorities in Krasnodar said falling drone debris damaged one …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian police battled severe alpine weather on Saturday on the fifth day of a search for a gunman who escaped into dense bush after allegedly shooting dead two officers and injuring another at a rural property in Victoria state. Hundreds of officers were in the field searching for 56-year-old Dezi Freeman, previously known …
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