KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military has stabilised the sector of the frontline around the town of Pokrovsk, where Russian forces have been attacking for months, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukraine’s top military commander, said on Tuesday. In a post on social media platform Telegram, Syrskyi wrote: “We’ve been able to stabilise the situation in this zone of …
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(Reuters) -France’s former interior minister Gerald Darmanin has apologised to Liverpool fans for wrongly blaming them for the chaos at the Stade de France during the 2022 Champions League final in Paris. Darmanin, now serving as the justice minister, admitted that security arrangements for the final between Liverpool and Real Madrid were inadequate, and that …
By Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) – Conservative Friedrich Merz is set to be sworn in on Tuesday as Germany’s new chancellor at a critical juncture as the economy battles its longest post-war downturn, relations with top security ally the United States fray and the far-right surges. Lawmakers are widely expected to back Merz as chancellor …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said Moscow and Kyiv want to settle the war in Ukraine and that Russian President Vladimir Putin was more inclined towards peace after the recent fall in the price of oil. “I think Russia with the price of oil right now, oil has gone down, we are in a …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Kyiv forces attacked a power substation in Russia’s western Kursk region, the regional governor said on Tuesday, after Russian war bloggers reported a new Ukrainian land-based incursion into the area backed by armoured vehicles and drones. Power was yet to be restored to the town of Rylsk, a town of about 15,000 people …
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By Mohammed Ghobari, Jaidaa Taha and Menna AlaaElDin ADEN/CAIRO (Reuters) – The Israeli military said it carried out airstrikes against Yemen’s Hodeidah Port on Monday, a day after the Iran-aligned Houthis fired a missile that struck near Israel’s main airport. The military said in a statement that it attacked what it called Houthi terrorist targets …
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By David Lewis, Giulia Paravicini and Sonia Rolley GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -The M23 insurgents who routed Congo’s army to take control of the eastern part of one of Africa’s most populous nations now face a task as mundane as it is daunting: governing. The long-term success of their uprising – which aims …
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By Kate Abnett and Simon Jessop BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) -The United States is seeking to weaken a global deal aimed at helping developing countries struggling with the impacts of climate change and other issues, an internal United Nations document seen by Reuters showed. The Trump administration opposes draft reforms of the world’s financial system intended to …
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By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Prospective jurors in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial acknowledged on Monday being familiar with allegations against the hip-hop mogul, seeing a video of him allegedly assaulting a woman and hearing a comedian joke about baby oil that prosecutors say was found in his residences. But …
(Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday evening, a Downing Street spokeswoman said in a statement. “Discussing the situation in Gaza, both expressed their deep concern at recent developments and agreed a renewed peace process was required,” the statement said. On the situation in Ukraine, the leaders …
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