JERUSALEM, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he would not retire from politics if he receives a pardon from the country’s president in his years-long corruption trial. Asked by a reporter if planned on retiring from political life if he receives a pardon, Netanyahu replied: “no”. Netanyahu last …
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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW, Dec 7 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s outgoing Ukraine envoy said a deal to end the Ukraine war was “really close” and depended on resolving just two major issues but the Kremlin said there had to be radical changes to some of the U.S. proposals. Trump, who says he wants …
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KAMPALA, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Uganda’s opposition candidate Bobi Wine said he was beaten alongside his aides and supporters by security forces while campaigning in the country’s north, in an escalation of violence ahead of the country’s presidential election on January 15. Wine, a pop star-turned-politician, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, is challenging 81-year-old …
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MOSCOW, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Russian forces took control of the villages of Kucherivka in Ukraine’s northern Kharkiv region and Rivne in the eastern Donetsk region, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday. Moscow carried out group strikes on Ukrainian transport infrastructure, fuel and energy facilities, military airfields and long-range drone complexes, the ministry added. Reuters …
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DUBAI, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Fifty-five Iranians deported from the United States will return to their home country in the coming days, Iran’s foreign ministry said on Sunday, in the second such deportation under President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. In September, officials said the U.S. had identified about 400 Iranians to be deported, with a …
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By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) – A $140 million fine on tech tycoon Elon Musk’s social media platform underscores how Europeans undermine U.S. policies even while demanding that the United States provide military protection, one of the top American diplomats wrote on Saturday. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau joined Secretary of State …
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KYIV, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that he had had a long and “substantive” phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. “Ukraine is determined to keep working in good faith with the American side to genuinely achieve peace. We agreed …
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Dec 6 (Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 struck Greece on Saturday but there were no immediate reports of any damage. The quake was at a depth of 12.4 kilometers (7.71 miles) and was in Peloponnese, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) measured the quake initially at …
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ATHENS, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Eighteen migrants drowned when their boat overturned 26 miles (40 km) south of the tiny southern Greek island of Chrysi, a coast guard official said on Saturday, while two were rescued from the sea. The boat was initially detected by a Turkish cargo ship, which contacted the Greek authorities. The …
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VILNIUS, Dec 6 (Reuters) – Lithuania’s Vilnius airport resumed operations after balloons had forced it to close its airspace earlier, it said on Saturday, the latest in a series of interruptions of the Baltic nation’s air traffic in recent months. Air traffic restarted at 1731 GMT, the airport said. The airport, located some 30 km …
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