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Russia says it downs dozens of Ukrainian drones over Moscow, other areas

6 May 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian air defence forces repelled dozens of Ukrainian drones that attacked Moscow and other parts of the country on Tuesday, the defence ministry said. In two evening posts on Telegram, the defence ministry listed sites where 70 drones were intercepted in various regions including Moscow, central Russia and Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula …

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Exclusive-Order by Hegseth to cancel Ukraine weapons caught White House off guard

6 May 2025

By Erin Banco, Phil Stewart, Gram Slattery and Mike Stone NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Roughly a week after Donald Trump started his second term as president, the U.S. military issued an order to three freight airlines operating out of Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and a U.S. base in Qatar: Stop 11 flights loaded …

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Germany’s Merz says ban on far-right AfD won’t solve problem

6 May 2025

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that simply banning the far-right Alternative for Germany would not end the groundswell of support for it, noting it was key instead to fight the causes. The designation last Friday of the AfD as an “extremist” entity by the German domestic intelligence agency has …

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Conservative Merz elected German chancellor after initial debacle

6 May 2025

By Madeline Chambers and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -German conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor by parliament on Tuesday in a second round of voting after an unprecedented defeat on the first attempt got his coalition government off to a wobbly start. Merz, 69, who led his conservatives to a federal election victory in …

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Bessent says US could announce trade deals with some countries this week

6 May 2025

By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said the Trump administration could announce trade agreements with some of the United States’ largest trade partners as early as this week, but gave no details on which countries were involved. He said the administration was negotiating with 17 major …

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Britain and India clinch major trade deal in ‘new era’ of Trump tariffs

6 May 2025

By Shivangi Acharya and Alistair Smout NEW DELHI/LONDON (Reuters) -Britain and India clinched a long-coveted free trade pact on Tuesday after tariff turmoil sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump forced the two sides to hasten efforts to increase their trade in whisky, cars and food. The deal, between the world’s fifth and sixth largest economies, has been concluded …

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Russian missile kills three, injures eight in Ukraine’s Sumy, governor says

6 May 2025

(Reuters) – A Russian missile attack on the outskirts of the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday killed three people, including a 6-year-old child, and injured eight others, regional officials said. The military administration in the border region, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said four of the injured were children, with two of …

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