BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday that the EU will work on a 19th package of sanctions against Russia and warned against concessions to Moscow. “As far as Russia has not agreed to full and unconditional ceasefire, we should not even discuss any concessions,” Kallas said in a statement. …
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By Sarah Marsh and Lili Bayer BERLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European leaders and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy will speak to U.S. President Donald Trump this week ahead of his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, amid fears Washington may dictate unfavourable peace terms to Ukraine. Trump announced last week he would meet Putin on Friday in Alaska to …
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By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -Vladimir Putin is set to become the first Russian president to visit Alaska, a territory Moscow sold to the U.S. in 1867 for $7.2 million, assuming a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump goes ahead there on Friday as planned. It would be Putin’s eighth trip to the U.S. as …
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PARIS (Reuters) -Bulgaria has reported an outbreak of bluetongue disease on a sheep farm in the south of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Monday, the latest appearance of the virus, which is spreading in Europe. One animal was affected by the serotype 8 of bluetongue in a flock of 323 …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A prominent Al Jazeera journalist, who had previously been threatened by Israel, was killed along with four colleagues in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday in an attack condemned by journalists and rights groups. Israel’s military said it targeted and killed Anas Al Sharif, alleging he had headed …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany is convening a virtual meeting of European leaders on Wednesday to discuss how to pressure Russia to end the war in Ukraine ahead of a European call with U.S. President Donald Trump, a government spokesperson said on Monday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and EU and NATO officials are set to join the …
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(Reuters) -Fugitive pro-Russian businessman Ilan Shor has offered Moldovans monthly payments of $3,000 to join anti-government protests, in a bid to undermine Moldova’s pro-European government ahead of parliamentary elections next month. Moldovan officials have regularly accused Moscow of meddling in their domestic politics by stoking pro-Russian sentiments in a subversive campaign to topple the government …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday slammed Israel’s plans to step up its military operation in Gaza as a disaster waiting to happen and proposed an international coalition under a United Nations mandate to stabilise Gaza. Last week, Israel’s security cabinet approved a plan to take control of Gaza City, in a …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish prosecutors have charged a Ukrainian citizen with involvement in sending a parcel bomb using a courier company, Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) said on Monday. An indictment was filed with the District Court in the central Polish town of Piotrkow Trybunalski against a Ukrainian citizen called Kristina S., the ABW said in …
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By Essi Lehto HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland’s national prosecutor’s office said on Monday it had brought charges against the captain and first and second officers of the Eagle S oil tanker over the cutting of undersea cables in the Gulf of Finland in December. The Georgian and Indian nationals are suspected of aggravated criminal mischief and …
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