BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s interior minister is hoping the European Union can reach a bloc-wide agreement on sending failed asylum seekers who cannot go home to safe countries near their original homelands. Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives won February’s national election on a promise to bring down immigration levels, which opinion polls showed many voters regarded as …
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The situation in Gaza is the worst since the war between Israel and Hamas militants began 19-months ago, the United Nations said on Friday, despite a resumption of limited aid deliveries in the Palestinian enclave where famine looms. Under growing global pressure, Israel ended an 11-week long blockade on …
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) -Israel’s government has approved 22 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, its finance minister said on Thursday, a move condemned by Israeli human rights groups that may strain ties with key allies that have threatened sanctions. Bezalel Smotrich, an ultra-nationalist in the ruling right-wing coalition who has long advocated …
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By Anastasiia Malenko KYIV (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate is set to move ahead next week with a bill imposing more sanctions on Russia over its three-year-old war in Ukraine, Senator Lindsey Graham said on Friday after talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, was accompanied on a visit to Kyiv …
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By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department ordered all its consular missions overseas to begin additional vetting of visa applicants looking to travel to Harvard University for any purpose, according to an internal cable seen by Reuters on Friday, in a move that significantly expands President Donald Trump’s crackdown against the academic institution. …
MOSCOW (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said Russia’s concern over the eastward enlargement of NATO was fair and the United States did not want to see Ukraine in the U.S.-led military alliance. Asked by U.S. network ABC News about a Reuters report that Russia wanted a written pledge over NATO …
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By Phil Stewart, Andrew Gray, Idrees Ali and Sabine Siebold WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -President Donald Trump will maintain the traditional role of a U.S. general at the helm of NATO, at least for now, three U.S. officials, a Western official and a NATO source said, even as Washington pushes European allies to take more responsibility for …
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By Aaron Ross NAIROBI (Reuters) -Lawyers for Tanzania’s jailed opposition leader Tundu Lissu filed a complaint on Friday to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in a bid to ramp up international pressure for his release. Lissu, chairman of Tanzania’s main opposition party and runner-up in the 2020 presidential election, was arrested last …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his wife browsed the stalls at a literary fair in Kyiv on Friday and left with some new reading material – a book entitled “To Kill A Tyrant.” Zelenskiy, who has led his country throughout the three-year war with Russia, has repeatedly described Russian President Vladimir Putin as …
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By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) -Uncertainty over the future of U.S. universities under President Donald Trump’s administration has fuelled a threefold surge in U.S. applications to the Max Planck Society, one of Europe’s leading research bodies. Changes in funding for research centres, coupled with the administration’s move last week – temporarily blocked by a judge …
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