ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told leaders at a NATO summit on Wednesday that a ceasefire between Israel and Iran needed to be made permanent, his office said, and called for a ceasefire in Gaza to alleviate the humanitarian crisis there. NATO member Turkey has been fiercely critical of Israel and its assault against …
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By Bahareh Khodabandeh and William James LONDON (Reuters) -Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said on Wednesday Iran’s war with Israel had revealed the weakness of its “paper tiger” leadership, predicting that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would be toppled in a peaceful revolution. She spoke a day after a shaky ceasefire brokered by U.S. …
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By Jeff Mason and Yuliia Dysa THE HAGUE (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump indicated on Wednesday he will consider providing more of the Patriot missiles that Ukraine needs to defend against mounting Russian strikes, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin “really has to end that war”. His remarks came after a 50-minute meeting with Ukrainian …
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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Businesses will find it easier to get state aid for projects aimed at cutting their carbon emissions and to switch to green projects while heavy industries will benefit from temporary power price relief under looser rules announced by the European Commission on Wednesday. The new state aid rules, valid …
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By Andrew Gray, Sabine Siebold and Jeff Mason THE HAGUE (Reuters) -NATO leaders on Wednesday backed the big increase in defence spending that U.S. President Donald Trump had demanded, and restated their commitment to defend each other from attack after a brief summit in the Netherlands. While Trump got what he wanted at the annual …
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MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez intends to run for re-election in 2027 at the end of his current term, he said on Wednesday, despite the corruption investigations his government is facing. Sanchez, a Socialist, heads a minority leftist coalition government embroiled in a series of scandals, which have led the opposition to demand …
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ATHENS (Reuters) -A Greek court ordered the pre-trial detention on Wednesday of a 26-year-old Azeri man charged with espionage on the island of Crete which is home to a NATO military base, sources and the Athens News Agency said. The man, who has a temporary Polish residence permit, was arrested on Sunday on accusations of …
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THE HAGUE (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday after talks with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that he is considering sending more Patriot missile batteries to Ukraine to help Kyiv fend off Russian attacks. Trump said the anti-missile missiles are “very hard to get” but that “we are going to see if we can …
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ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece has arrested a Georgian woman suspected of discarding a cigarette that helped trigger one of several wildfires razing land and threatening homes on the island of Chios. Blazes broke out on Chios in the Aegean Sea on Sunday and tore through 10,000 acres of mainly bush and pasture land in three days, …
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By Alexander Cornwell TEL AVIV (Reuters) -The Israeli military said seven soldiers were killed in a single attack in southern Gaza on Tuesday, the military’s deadliest day in the territory since it broke a ceasefire with Hamas in March. A lieutenant, three staff sergeants and three sergeants, members of a combat engineering battalion, were killed …
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