WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish centrist presidential candidate Rafal Trzaskowski said he won the second round of the election on Sunday after an exit poll showed him narowly in the lead ahead of nationalist candidate Karol Nawrocki. (Reporting by Warsaw Bureau)
CATANIA (Reuters) -International nonprofit organisation Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) said one of its vessels left the Italian port of Catania on Sunday, heading for Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid, after a previous attempt failed due to a drone attack on a separate ship in the Mediterranean. The crew of volunteers, including climate activist Greta Thunberg …
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By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian negotiators at talks scheduled for June 2 in Istanbul will present to the Russian side a proposed roadmap for reaching a lasting peace settlement, according to a copy of the document seen by Reuters. The proposed roadmap begins with a full ceasefire of at least 30 days, to be …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that Ukraine will attend a meeting in Istanbul on Monday proposed by Russia. “I outlined (Ukraine’s) positions ahead of the meeting in Istanbul on Monday,” Zelenskiy wrote on Telegram on Sunday after meeting with his officials. He added that the Ukrainian delegation would again be headed by Defence …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ukraine attacked Russian nuclear-capable long-range bombers at a military base in Siberia on Sunday, the first such attack so far from the front lines more than 4,300 km (2,670 miles) away, according to pro-Russian bloggers. Unverified video and pictures posted on social media showed Russian strategic bombers – whose purpose is to drop …
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(Reuters) – Slovak central bank governor and European Central Bank policymaker Peter Kazimir is not the right candidate to get another six-year term and the country’s main ruling party will not back him, Prime Minister Robert Fico said. Kazimir was finance minister for Fico’s SMER-SSD party in 2012-2019 but was close to Peter Pellegrini, who …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A railway track on the Unecha-Zhecha section in Russia’s Bryansk region was damaged, there were no casualties, Russian Railways said on Sunday. “Today at 10:52 on the Unecha-Zhecha section of the Bryansk region, during an inspection of the infrastructure by special equipment, railway workers discovered damage to the track. No one was …
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By Greg Torode and Fanny Potkin SINGAPORE (Reuters) -The Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting in Singapore has long been marked by U.S.-China rivalry but Beijing’s relative retreat at the weekend exposed a new faultline – tensions between the U.S. and Europe over Asia. Even as he warned in a speech on Saturday that China posed an …
(Reuters) -A bridge collapsed in Russia’s Kursk region while a freight train was passing over it, the acting governor of the Russian region bordering Ukraine said on the Telegram messaging app. Initial details said one of the locomotive drivers was injured, Alexander Khinshtein, the official in Russia’s southern Kursk region, added. (Reporting by Lidia Kelly …
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and James Mackenzie CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Hamas said on Saturday it was seeking amendments to a U.S.-backed proposal for a temporary ceasefire with Israel in Gaza, but President Donald Trump’s envoy rejected the group’s response as “totally unacceptable.” The Palestinian militant group said it was willing to release 10 living hostages and hand …
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