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By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Countries should treat the activities of Russian state broadcaster RT as they do covert intelligence operations, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday as he unveiled new sanctions aimed at alleged Russian overseas influence campaigns. The United States last week filed money-laundering charges against two employees of RT …

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OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada fully supports Ukraine using long-range weaponry to “prevent and interdict Russia’s continued ability to degrade Ukrainian civilian infrastructure”, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday. Trudeau told reporters that Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to deeply destabilize the international rules-based order and added: “That’s why Canada and others are unequivocal …

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By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is not planning to announce any new policy on Ukraine and the use of long-range missiles on Friday, the White House said. “There is no change to our view on the provision of long range strike capabilities for Ukraine to use inside of Russia,” White House …

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(Reuters) -Ukraine’s government has approved the 2025 draft budget, which has a strong focus on defence spending, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Friday. Shmyhal, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the draft, to be submitted to parliament, provided for 2 trillion hryvnias ($48.2 billion)in revenues and 3.6 trillion hryvnias in expenditures. The draft, …

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(Reuters) – A Russian guided bomb attack on Friday killed two people and injured six others, including a child, in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region, local authorities said. The attack damaged residential houses and a clinic, and cut power supplies, the regional military administration said on Telegram messenger. (Reporting by Yuliia Dysa; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The body of a Turkish-American activist was received with a solemn ceremony at the airport in Istanbul on Friday, arriving a week after she was shot in the head by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank. The Istanbul governor and other officials lined up in front of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi’s coffin, …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An opinion poll on Friday showed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party would form the largest single party in parliament if an election were held now, underlining a gradual recovery since the Oct. 7 attacks last year. The poll, published in the left-wing Ma’ariv daily, showed Likud winning 24 seats, …

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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hamas chief Yehya Sinwar thanked the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for his group’s support in the conflict with Israel, Hezbollah said on Friday, in the first reported message since Sinwar became Hamas leader in August. The Iran-backed Hezbollah has been waging attacks on Israel for nearly a year in …

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