Dec 18 (Reuters) – Russia launched a “massive” drone attack on Ukraine’s central Cherkasy region, injuring six people and triggering a blackout in part of Cherkasy city, the local governor said on Thursday. “A difficult night for our Cherkasy region,” Governor Ihor Taburets said on the Telegram messaging app. Taburets said the attack targeted critical …
Dec 17 (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview that relations with the United States could improve and that a starting point could be U.S. acknowledgment that a Western campaign to overturn his 2020 re-election had failed. Official results declaring Lukashenko had been re-elected to a sixth term sparked unprecedented mass protests …
(Corrects description to correctional officers from police officers in paragraph 18) By Christine Chen and Scott Murdoch SYDNEY, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Two Sydney rabbis killed in the Bondi Beach Hanukkah festival shootings were remembered by hundreds of mourners in the Australian city on Wednesday as kind and curious men who would be dearly missed …
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PARIS, Dec 17 (Reuters) – A 22-year old man has been arrested after an earlier cyberattack on the French Interior Ministry’s Email servers, which affected more than 20 files including those with criminal records. The French prosecutor’s department said on Wednesday that the person arrested was already on police records after having been convicted of …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, Dec 17 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to advance a $901 billion bill setting policy for the Pentagon, sending the massive piece of legislation to the White House, which has said President Donald Trump will sign it into law. The fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, or …
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By Marco Roberti ROME, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Italy’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld an acquittal verdict for Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini in a migrant kidnapping case, meaning no further appeals can be brought against the decision. Salvini, a key ally of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and leader of the far-right League party, had …
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KYIV, Dec 17 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Ukraine’s allies on Wednesday to secure support for Kyiv and show Russia that continuing its war is “pointless,” ahead of a crucial European Union summit on Moscow’s frozen assets. “The outcome of these meetings – the outcome for Europe – must be such that Russia …
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By Byron Kaye SYDNEY, Dec 17 (Reuters) – After Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in 1996, the country rushed in some of the world’s toughest gun laws, including mandatory licensing and background checks, as well as registration of every firearm. But a winding back of those laws, failure to update them with the internet age and …
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By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Sarajevo authorities issued an air quality warning and imposed a ban on some cars and trucks on Wednesday after it was ranked as the world’s most polluted city on the two previous evenings by Swiss air quality monitoring firm IQAir. The Sarajevo cantonal government took action after …
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Dec 17 (Reuters) – Slovakia’s Constitutional Court suspended the government’s planned overhaul of a whistleblower agency on Wednesday after protests from opposition politicians, stopping any action until it can review the law further, it said. The ruling does not mean the law is unconstitutional but is likely to delay implementation of the legal changes, which …
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