DUBLIN, Dec 4 (Reuters) – An Irish navy ship spotted up to five drones operating near the flight path of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s aircraft as he arrived for a state visit to Ireland on Monday, local media reported on Thursday. The sighting triggered a major security alert amid fears it was an attempt to …
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Dec 5 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military said late on Thursday its forces had struck a large chemical plant in Stavropol region in southern Russia, triggering a fire. The military’s General Staff, writing on Telegram, said the Nevinnomyssky Azot plant was hit overnight on Thursday and added the facility produced components for explosives. It described it …
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CHISINAU, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Fugitive Moldovan business magnate Ilan Shor, accused by authorities in the ex-Soviet state of buying votes and trying to destabilise it with Russian backing, said on Thursday he was halting all his economic projects in the country. Shor was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison for his part …
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By Mariam Sunny and Michael Erman Dec 4 (Reuters) – Vaccine advisers to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday delayed a vote until Friday that could scrap the U.S. recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine for all children, a move that would be the health secretary’s most consequential vaccine policy change yet. Since 1991, the …
By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Czech election winner and populist ANO party chief Andrej Babis will be appointed prime minister on December 9, the country’s president said on Thursday, after Babis said he would shift his Agrofert business group to an independently governed trust structure. President Petr Pavel had said he would …
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MONS, Belgium, Dec 4 (Reuters) – NATO must be ready to respond to increasing hybrid threats in order to defend its member states’ territory, the alliance’s top military commander said on Thursday. Hybrid threats refer to both military and non-military tactics designed to undermine an adversary’s security and typically include cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, sabotage of …
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KYIV, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people were left without power and heating in southern Ukraine after Russian attacks on the frontline city of Kherson and Ukraine’s largest seaport, Odesa, authorities and a top energy provider said on Thursday. Russia has sharply increased its attacks on Ukraine’s energy and utilities sector as …
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LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged Britain on Thursday to move beyond Brexit and focus on rebuilding ties with Europe, using lyrics by the British rock band Oasis to tell lawmakers: “Don’t look back in anger”. Steinmeier was addressing politicians in Parliament during the first state visit by a German president …
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(Corrects final paragraph to show that TotalEnergies representative said Raphael Waxin is a drilling engineer, not an exploration engineer) By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS/LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) – A French-Russian national detained in France on suspicion of espionage has an extensive network of ties with Kremlin proxies, Reuters has found by examining social media posts dating …
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BERLIN, Dec 4 (Reuters) – The French President and German Chancellor have voiced scepticism over the direction that U.S. efforts to negotiate a peace between Ukraine and Russia are taking, German magazine Spiegel cited a transcript of a confidential call as showing. In a report on Thursday, Spiegel said that in the call with Ukrainian …
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