BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary has cancelled a meeting with Ukraine of experts on minority rights that had been due to take place on Monday, citing a row in which the two neighbours expelled diplomats and accused each other of engaging in espionage. In a statement late on Sunday, Hungarian foreign ministry state secretary Levente Magyar …
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TIRANA (Reuters) -Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama was on course for an unprecedented fourth term in office on Monday as partial results showed his Socialist Party with a commanding lead in Sunday’s parliamentary election. The Socialist Party won 53% of the vote with 30% of ballots counted, results from the election commission showed, far ahead of the …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Global perceptions of the United States have deteriorated across the world over the past year and are now worse than views of China, according to an annual study of perceptions of democracy published on Monday. The survey did not go into details on the criteria used, but the Alliance of Democracies Foundation …
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(Reuters) – Russia launched 108 drones across Ukraine overnight and struck a civilian freight train, injuring its driver, Ukrainian authorities said, after European leaders joined President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in demanding a 30-day ceasefire from Monday. Ukrainian air defences destroyed 55 of the drones that Russia launched from 11 p.m. on Sunday (2000 GMT), Ukraine’s air …
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By Fatos Bytyci and Edward McAllister TIRANA (Reuters) -Albanians voted in parliamentary elections on Sunday with prime minister Edi Rama seeking an unprecedented fourth term after a campaign dominated by promises to join the European Union and accusations of widespread corruption. Polling stations closed at 7 p.m. Results will be published by Tuesday, said the …
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(This May 8 story has been corrected to capitalize the ‘D’ in ‘DiMaggio’, in paragraphs 8 and 9) By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The ransom-seeking cybercriminals behind the extortion group Lockbit appear to have suffered a breach of their own, according to a rogue post to one of the group’s websites and security analysts …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Three people were injured in a Ukrainian missile attack in the town of Rylsk in Russia’s Kursk region on Sunday, state news agency TASS reported, citing regional governor Alexander Khinshtein. The missile strike hit a hotel building, Khinshtein said, adding that two people with shrapnel wounds were taken to hospital. “Two men …
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By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he was ready to meet Vladimir Putin in Turkey on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump told him publicly to immediately accept the Kremlin leader’s proposal of direct talks. Zelenskiy’s suggestion of a meeting with Putin capped a dramatic 48 hours in which European leaders …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Russian secret services were behind a massive fire that nearly completely destroyed a Warsaw shopping centre in May 2024, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Sunday after a year of investigation into the case. “We already know for sure that the large fire on Marywilska was the result of arson ordered by …
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By Joshua McElwee, Philip Pullella and Keith Weir VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo XIV appealed to the world’s major powers for “no more war” in his first Sunday message to crowds in St. Peter’s Square since his election as pontiff. The new pope, elected on May 8, called for an “authentic and lasting peace” in …
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