KYIV (Reuters) -Gas volumes in Ukrainian storage facilities are at the lowest level in at least 11 years, standing at 6 billion cubic metres (bcm) as of May 11, analytical company ExPro said on Wednesday. Ukraine has been forced to ramp up gas withdrawals from storage and increase imports this winter and spring after Russian …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has an invitation to visit Iran, but the dates have not yet been agreed, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. Iran’s government spokesman Fatemeh Mohajerani was quoted by Russian state news agency RIA Novosti on Tuesday as saying that Putin’s visit to Iran “is currently being worked …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Wednesday criticised comments by French President Emmanuel Macron that Paris is open to deploying nuclear-armed warplanes in other European countries, saying it would not enhance the continent’s security. “The Americans have the bombs on planes in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Turkey,” Macron told France’s TF1 television on Tuesday. “We are …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s foreign minister on Wednesday called his country’s characterisation by U.S. President Donald Trump as the “most destructive force” in the Middle East “deceptive”, days after a fourth round of Iran-U.S. nuclear talks. Abbas Araqchi also confirmed a Reuters report that the Iranian deputy foreign minister will meet in Istanbul with British, French …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain has found no indication of a cyberattack on its grid operator REE during the massive power outage that hit the country and Portugal on April 28, Energy Minister Sara Aagesen said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez had said on April 29 that his government wasn’t ruling out the possibility of …
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By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) -The head of Russia’s only independent election watchdog was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in a penal colony after being found guilty of working with an “undesirable organisation”. Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the Golos movement, was arrested in August 2023. He pleaded not guilty at his trial. Human rights …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party submitted a bill to parliament which would list organisations that receive foreign financing and curtail their activities if they are deemed a threat to Hungary’s sovereignty. Orban pledged to crack down on foreign funding of independent media, opposition politicians and NGOs in March, stepping up …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish authorities have released from custody a person detained on Sunday on suspicion of espionage, the prosecution agency said on Wednesday. “There are no longer grounds for the person to be detained,” Prosecutor Per Lindqvist said in a statement, adding that the investigation was however still ongoing. Public broadcaster SVT on Tuesday …
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s foreign ministry summoned a senior Algerian diplomat on Wednesday to inform him that Paris was expelling Algerians holding diplomatic passports without visas in a response to a decision by Algiers to expel 15 French officials. “France reserves the right to take additional measures depending on how the situation evolves,” the ministry …
By Michel Rose and Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he was in favour of imposing new sanctions on Russia in coming days if Moscow failed to agree to a ceasefire, mentioning financial services and oil and gas as possible targets. “Our intention is to impose new sanctions against …
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