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Ukraine plans to boost food processing as preferential EU trade ends

3 Jun 2025

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine plans to change its policy on agricultural exports to adapt to the expected end of free access to the lucrative EU market, potentially reducing raw material exports while stepping up domestic food processing, its farm minister told Reuters. Agricultural goods accounted for about 60% of Ukraine’s total exports …

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French police officer to go on trial for murder of teenager

3 Jun 2025

PARIS (Reuters) -A French police officer charged with murder in the deadly shooting of a teenager in 2023 that sparked violent protests across the country will go on trial next year, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday. In March, prosecutors requested that one of two officers investigated over the June 27 shooting of 17-year-old …

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Ukraine says it hit Russia’s bridge to Crimea with underwater explosives

3 Jun 2025

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s SBU security service said on Tuesday that it had hit the road and rail bridge linking Russia and the Crimean peninsula below the water level with explosives. In a statement, the SBU said it had used 1,100 kilograms (2,420 pounds) of explosives that were detonated early in the morning and damaged underwater …

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Medvedev says Russia seeks victory, not compromise, in talks with Ukraine

3 Jun 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that the point of holding peace talks with Ukraine was to ensure a swift and complete Russian victory. “The Istanbul talks are not for striking a compromise peace on someone else’s delusional terms but for ensuring our swift victory and the complete destruction of …

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Polish lawmakers to hold confidence vote in Tusk government on June 11

3 Jun 2025

By Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish lawmakers will hold a vote of confidence in the government on June 11, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday as he seeks to shore up his centre-left coalition after Sunday’s presidential election loss. Tusk’s candidate for president, liberal Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, lost the ballot to eurosceptic historian …

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Russian farmers appeal to Putin for help against antelope invasion

3 Jun 2025

By Olga Popova and Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW (Reuters) -Farmers in Russia’s Saratov region have appealed to President Vladimir Putin for help in dealing with an invasion of saiga antelopes that have migrated from Kazakhstan and devastated their fields. The appeal, posted on several popular farmers’ channels on Telegram, said that the saiga population has grown …

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Greece appeals court rules 10 people guilty over deadly 2018 wildfire near Athens

3 Jun 2025

ATHENS (Reuters) -A Greek appeals court found 10 people guilty on Tuesday of misdemeanour charges over a wildfire in 2018 that killed 104 people, a ruling that angered relatives of those who died in the country’s worst such disaster in living memory. The court upheld a lower court verdict from last year but ordered the …

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Kremlin says Ukraine peace efforts are complex, no quick decisions should be expected

3 Jun 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Tuesday that work on trying to reach a settlement to end the war in Ukraine was extraordinarily complex and that it would be wrong to expect any imminent decisions but that it was waiting for Ukrainian reaction to its proposals. The Kremlin was commenting after Russia told Ukraine at …

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