By Giulio Piovaccari MILAN (Reuters) -An Italian appeals court on Friday confirmed the arrest of a Ukrainian man suspected by Germany of coordinating attacks on three Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in 2022, his lawyer said. The 49-year-old man, whose full name was given in court but has been identified only as …
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(Corrects to ‘company’ instead of ‘battalion’ in headline and paragraph 1) HELSINKI (Reuters) -Estonia is ready to participate in a peacekeeping operation in Ukraine with a force of up to one company, the Baltic country’s Prime Minister Kristen Michal said at a press conference with his Finnish counterpart in Tallinn on Friday. Michal did not …
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(Reuters) -Foreign ministers from European countries, Australia and Britain on Friday jointly condemned Israel’s plans to construct a settlement east of Jerusalem. The approval of the “E1” project would bisect the West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem, fragmenting territory Palestinians seek for an independent state. It was announced last week by far-right …
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By Andrew Osborn and Mark Trevelyan MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said there is no agenda for a potential summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy, accusing Zelenskiy of saying “no to everything”. Speaking to NBC’s “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker”, Lavrov said Putin had made clear …
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By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY -Australia’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state came after the government sensed a major shift in the domestic mood over the war in Gaza, and showed that Canberra was unafraid of upsetting Israel, historically one of its staunchest allies. The August 11 announcement came days after tens of thousands of people …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish prosecutors have charged the head of the National Security Bureau (BBN) and the former defence minister with wrongfully declassifying secret military plans for use in electoral campaigning. The charges look set to deepen a legal dispute over the security clearance of newly-appointed BBN chief Slawomir Cenckiewicz, part of a bitter conflict between …
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BELGRADE (Reuters) -Serbia’s populist president, Aleksandar Vucic, called on Friday for dialogue with anti-government protesters following more than nine months of demonstrations in the Balkan country that have challenged his rule. In a televised address from his office in Belgrade, Vucic said he was ready to speak with the representatives of students and other anti-government …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO allies and Ukraine are working together to make sure security guarantees for Ukraine are at such a robust level that Russia will never try to attack again, NATO chief Mark Rutte said on Friday, adding that Europe and the United States would be involved in providing them. “Robust security guarantees will be …
(Reuters) -A global hunger monitor determined on Friday that famine is taking place in Gaza, nearly two years after Israel launched a military campaign in the tiny Palestinian territory in response to the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023. Here is an explanation of what the monitor is, how it assesses a hunger crisis, when …
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MILAN (Reuters) -A Milan court on Friday freed the founder of real estate firm Coima SGR from house arrest imposed over an inquiry into alleged crimes in Milan’s urban planning, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The court ordered the removal of the precautionary measure imposed on Manfredi Catella on July …
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