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Fire at Russia’s Novoshakhtinsk refinery burns for a fourth day after drone attack

24 Aug 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -A fire at Russia’s Novoshakhtinsk refinery was burning for the fourth day on Sunday after a Ukrainian drone strike, the acting governor of the region said. A fire was reported at in Novoshakhtinsk on Thursday. The refinery there sells fuel mainly for export, and has annual capacity of 5 million metric tons of …

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Ukraine drone hits Russian nuclear plant, sparks huge fire at Novatek’s Ust-Luga terminal

24 Aug 2025

By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ukraine launched a drone attack on Russia on Sunday, forcing a sharp fall in the capacity of a reactor at one of Russia’s biggest nuclear power plants and sparking a huge blaze at the major Ust-Luga fuel export terminal, Russian officials said. Despite talk of peace by …

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Three young sisters drown, dozens rescued from boat carrying migrants to Italy

24 Aug 2025

MILAN (Reuters) -Three young sisters drowned when the rubber boat carrying them and dozens of other migrants got into difficulties on the perilous central Mediterranean crossing from Libya to Italy, a German sea rescue charity said on Sunday. RESQSHIP said the bodies of the sisters, aged 9, 11 and 17, were found inside the boat, …

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Syria delays parliamentary vote in Sweida after sectarian violence

24 Aug 2025

(Reuters) -Syria’s first parliamentary election under its new Islamist administration, scheduled for September, will not include the southern province of Sweida and two other provinces due to security concerns, the electoral commission said on Saturday. Hundreds of people were reported killed in July in clashes in Sweida pitting Druze fighters against Sunni Bedouin tribes, and …

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Kursk governor says Ukrainian attack is threat to nuclear safety

24 Aug 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ukrainian attacks on the Kursk unclear plant create a threat to nuclear safety, Alexander Khinshtein, the regional acting governor said on Sunday. “They are a threat to nuclear safety and a violation of all international conventions,” Khinshtein wrote on the Telegram messaging app. A drone attack on the Kursk nuclear plant on Sunday …

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Norway to provide Ukraine with air defence systems worth about $700 million

24 Aug 2025

(Reuters) -Norway’s government said on Sunday that it will contribute approximately 7 billion Norwegian crowns ($696.12 million) of air defence systems to Ukraine. “Together with Germany, we are now ensuring that Ukraine receives powerful air defence systems,” Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said in the statement. “Germany and Norway are working very closely together …

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Pentagon restricts Ukraine’s use of US missiles against Russia, WSJ reports

24 Aug 2025

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Pentagon has been quietly blocking Ukraine from using U.S.-made long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to strike targets inside Russia, limiting Kyiv’s ability to employ these weapons in its defense against Moscow’s invasion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing U.S. officials. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The news …

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Russian forces take control of 2 settlements in eastern Ukraine, Defence Ministry says

23 Aug 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian troops have taken control of two more settlements along the 1,000-km (620-mile) front line in Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Saturday. The ministry on Friday announced the capture of three villages in its slow advance across the region. Ukraine’s military did not acknowledge that any of the …

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France summons Italian ambassador over challenge to Macron on Ukraine

23 Aug 2025

PARIS (Reuters) -France summoned the Italian ambassador after Italy’s deputy prime minister challenged the French president for suggesting that European soldiers be deployed in Ukraine in a post-war settlement, a French diplomatic source said on Saturday. Asked earlier this week to comment on French President Emmanuel Macron’s appeals to deploy European soldiers in Ukraine after …

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Online death of abused French streamer was not result of trauma, prosecutor says

23 Aug 2025

By Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) -A French video streamer who died during a livestream after days of abuse by other streamers did not die as a result of trauma or the intervention of a third party, court authorities said. France has been rocked by the death of 46-year-old Raphael Graven, known online as Jean …

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