(Reuters) -The United States has provided Poland with a $4 billion foreign military financing loan guarantee, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said on Friday. The loan will allow NATO-ally Poland to invest in American-made defense systems, she said in a statement. (Reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones in Toronto; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
DUBAI (Reuters) -Israel will allow foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza starting on Friday, Israeli army radio quoted a military official as saying. An Israeli military spokesperson did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment on the report. The Gaza health ministry says more than 100 people have died from starvation in …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany is not planning to recognise a Palestinian state in the short term and said its priority now is to make “long-overdue progress” towards a two-state solution, a German government spokesperson said on Friday. “Israel’s security is of paramount importance to the German government,” said the spokesperson. “The German government therefore has no …
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By Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia dismissed a senior executive of the TASS state news agency on Friday after he attended an event hosted by the president of Azerbaijan, whose relations with Moscow have deteriorated in recent months. Mikhail Gusman, who oversaw international relations at TASS as first deputy CEO, interviewed world leaders on his …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Friday that a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy could only happen as a final step to seal a peace deal. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that it was unlikely that such a meeting could occur by the end of August, as Ukraine has …
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(Corrects paragraph 6 to drop Jerusalem reference) By John Irish PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -France intends to recognise a Palestinian state in September at the United Nations General Assembly, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday in hopes of bringing peace to the region, but the plan drew angry rebukes from Israel and the United States. Macron, who …
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HAMBURG (Reuters) -Rain has sharply raised water levels on the river Rhine in Germany, allowing ships to take on bigger loads and only northern sections of the river are still too shallow for cargo vessels to sail at full capacity, commodity traders said on Friday. Dry weather and a heatwave in June and July meant …
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(Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will lobby U.S. President Donald Trump to accelerate a final deal to cut tariffs on British steel, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Starmer is expected to meet Trump on Monday and will also use the meeting to press the case for building closer ties and cutting tariffs on …
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By Andrew Osborn and Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW (Reuters) -An Antonov An-24 passenger plane carrying 48 people crashed in Russia’s far east on Thursday as it was preparing to land, killing everyone on board in an incident that spotlighted the continued use of old, Soviet-era aircraft. The burning fuselage of the plane, which was made in …
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(Reuters) -Ukraine and Russia attacked targets on each other’s territory on Thursday after brief direct talks between the two sides failed to make any progress on steps to end nearly three-and-a-half years of war. Russian forces staged the latest in a series of mass drone attacks on Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa, killing one …
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