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By Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) – The United States wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO’s conventional defense capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week, a tight deadline that struck some European officials as unrealistic. The message, recounted by five sources …

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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY, Dec 6 (Reuters) – A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church’s practice of all-male clergy, according to a report given to Pope Leo and released on Thursday. The commission, in a 7-1 vote, said historical research and theological investigation “excludes …

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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV, Dec 6 (Reuters) – A large-scale Russian drone and missile attack damaged power facilities in eight Ukrainian regions, causing blackouts and forcing nuclear power plants to cut power output, officials and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Saturday. Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s energy sector and infrastructure …

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Dec 6 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant temporarily lost all off-site power overnight, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Saturday, citing its Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi. The nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, has been under Russian control since March 2022, when Russian forces overran much of southeastern Ukraine. It is not currently …

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By Steve Holland, Humeyra Pamuk and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff held productive talks with Ukraine’s senior negotiator Rustem Umerov in Miami over the past two days, U.S. officials said on Friday, with further talks scheduled for Saturday. Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner …

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By Charlie Devereux and Joan Faus MADRID/BARCELONA, Dec 5 (Reuters) – The Catalonia regional government said on Friday it would investigate a research centre outside Barcelona after Spain’s Agriculture Ministry said a recent swine fever outbreak could have been caused by a laboratory leak. Spain, the European Union’s top pork producer, is trying to reassure …

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Dec 5 (Reuters) – A protective shield at the Chornobyl nuclear plant in war-torn Ukraine, built to contain radioactive material from the 1986 disaster, can no longer perform its main safety function due to drone damage, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday, a strike Ukraine has attributed to Russia. The International Atomic Energy Agency …

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