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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff will be in Moscow on Wednesday to meet with Russian leadership, a source familiar with the plan said on Tuesday. Officials in Washington provided few details of Witkoff’s schedule. “The president has noted, of course, that Special Envoy Witkoff will be traveling to Russia this week, so we …

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(Reuters) -The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of repair and sustainment support for M777 howitzer artillery guns and transportation and consolidation services to Ukraine for an estimated total of $203.5 million, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The principal contractor for equipment, repair services, and sustainment support for the howitzers will be BAE …

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BERLIN (Reuters) -More than 100 Israeli academics have warned in a letter that a failure by Germany to put pressure on Israel could lead to new atrocities in Gaza. “Further hesitation on Germany’s part threatens to enable new atrocities – and undermines the lessons learnt from its own history,” the academics wrote in the letter, …

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(Reuters) -Romania’s former President Ion Iliescu, who led its transition from communism and set it on the path to European Union and NATO membership, but faced charges of crimes against humanity for violently suppressing protests in the 1990s, died on Tuesday aged 95. Iliescu had been admitted to hospital with lung cancer roughly two months …

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BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem threatened Israel directly for the first time in months in a televised speech on Tuesday, saying missiles would fall on it if it resumed a broad war on Lebanon. His comments came as Lebanon’s cabinet met to discuss the fate of Hezbollah’s arsenal, after Washington pressured Lebanese officials to …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said declining energy prices could pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt the war in Ukraine. “If energy goes down enough, Putin is going to stop killing people,” Trump said in an interview on CNBC. “If you get energy down, another $10 a barrel, he’s going to …

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