By Max Hunder HOSHCHA, Ukraine, Dec 4 (Reuters) – While many Ukrainian hospitals are struggling to cope with the endless influx of wounded, a maternity ward in the western town of Hoshcha lies eerily deserted. The hospital in Hoshcha has recorded just 139 births so far this year, down from 164 in 2024, and a …
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MOSCOW, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Russia is considering retaliatory measures against the Faroe Islands after the Faroese parliament passed a law giving the government the authority to bar Russian fishing companies from its waters, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. The Faroese public broadcaster said on Wednesday that parliament had passed a law authorising …
ZURICH, Dec 4 (Reuters) – The Swiss parliament on Thursday voted to relax restrictions on weapons exports in a move aimed at supporting the domestic arms industry without compromising the country’s traditional neutrality. In future, Swiss companies will be allowed to export arms to 25 western countries, while rules requiring consent for the re-export of …
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ROME, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Italy’s defence minister on Thursday said other countries, including Germany and Australia, may be interested in entering the GCAP fighter jet programme in the future, with requests also coming from Saudi Arabia and Canada. The GCAP, which currently involves Italy, Britain and Japan, is an effort to build a next-generation …
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ANKARA, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Turkey’s defence ministry said on Thursday construction work had started on its first indigenous submarine (MILDEN), adding that Ankara had also completed its first sale of a corvette warship to a NATO ally by inking an agreement with Romania. NATO member Turkey, which has ramped up defence industry production and …
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MOSCOW, Dec 4 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Thursday that Russia would take full control of Ukraine’s Donbas region by force unless Ukrainian forces withdraw, something Kyiv has flatly rejected. Putin sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022 after eight years of fighting between Russian-backed …
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ATHENS, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Two dozen aid workers went on trial in Greece on Thursday on charges including migrant smuggling, in a case that rights groups have dismissed as a baseless attempt to outlaw aid for refugees heading to Europe. The trial on the island of Lesbos comes as EU countries, including Greece – …
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By Can Sezer ISTANBUL, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Turkey is telling Russia, Ukraine, and all other parties to keep energy infrastructure out of their conflict and wants energy flows to continue uninterrupted, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said after a series of attacks off Turkey’s Black Sea coast. Ukraine, which is targeting Russia’s oil exports as …
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Dec 4 (Reuters) – Israel has identified the remains of the hostage it received from Hamas on Wednesday as Thai agricultural worker Sudthisak Rinthalak, the prime minister’s office said on Thursday. The body of Israeli police officer Ran Gvili, the last of the living and deceased hostages to be returned, is still in Gaza. The …
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By Ahmed Rasheed, Maha El Dahan, Humeyra Pamuk and Anna Hirtenstein BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Iranian drones swept through the mountain air of northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region in mid-July, homing in on their targets: oilfields run by Americans. Fired by an Iranian-backed militia group within Iraq, likely in retaliation for U.S. strikes on Iran’s …
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