PARIS (Reuters) -Two people have died after a boat carrying migrants trying to cross the English Channel got into difficulties near Calais, said the French regional authority on Wednesday. The boat, which was carrying around 80 migrants, had attempted to make the crossing over the course of Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. (Reporting by Sudip …
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(Reuters) -Romania’s defeated hard-right presidential contender George Simion said late on Tuesday that he would challenge the ballot’s result, alleging interference by France and Moldova, after a centrist victory was met with relief by many European leaders. Centrist Bucharest mayor Nicusor Dan recovered ground to win the country’s presidential election run-off on Sunday, securing about …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the western Kursk region for the first time since Russian forces ejected Ukrainian troops from the area last month. The Kremlin said that during the visit on Tuesday Putin met volunteer organisations in the region and visited the Kursk-II nuclear power plant. State television showed Putin meeting …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China is strongly dissatisfied and resolutely opposed to the European Union’s “unreasonable” sanctions on Chinese firms, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The EU and Britain announced new sanctions on Tuesday against Russia that target some Chinese firms. In Beijing, the ministry spokesperson, Mao Ning, urged the EU to drop its “double …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s parliament approved a 20-year strategic partnership on Wednesday between Moscow and Tehran, state media reported. The agreement represents a deepening of bilateral ties including closer defence cooperation. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian signed the strategic partnership document on January 17. The Russian legislative branch approved the pact …
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KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian missile attack on a Ukrainian military shooting range killed six servicemen and wounded at least 10 more during training on Tuesday, Ukraine’s national guard said on Wednesday, adding that the commander of the unit had been suspended. Russia’s defence ministry had said on Tuesday that the missile attack on the training …
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By Tom Balmforth, Andreas Rinke, John Irish KYIV/BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) -For Ukraine and its allies, who spent months trying to win Donald Trump over to their cause in the war started by Russia, it is back to square one. In a two-hour conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin late on Monday, the U.S. president dropped his …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union will review a pact governing its political and economic ties with Israel due to the “catastrophic” situation in Gaza, EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday after a meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers. International pressure on Israel has mounted in recent days amid complaints about the lack of …
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(This story has been corrected to fix the day to Wednesday in paragraph 1) BERLIN (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump misjudged his influence on Russian President Vladimir Putin, Germany’s defence minister said on Tuesday, after a phone call between the two leaders yielded no progress in Ukraine peace talks, prompting Europe to announce new Russia …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU foreign ministers on Tuesday agreed to lift economic sanctions on Syria, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said. “We want to help the Syrian people rebuild a new, inclusive and peaceful Syria,” Kallas said in a post on social media platform X following discussions with ministers in Brussels. The European Union’s …
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