MOSCOW (Reuters) – Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that NATO’s newer members are now potential targets for Moscow and at risk of possible revenge strikes using nuclear weapons in the event of a conflict, the TASS state news agency reported. Medvedev, who has styled himself as one of Russia’s most outspoken anti-Western …
PARIS (Reuters) – France will not think twice about reimposing United Nations sanctions on Iran if negotiations to reach a deal over its nuclear programme do not succeed, its foreign minister told the U.N. Security Council late on Monday. France, Britain and Germany – the “E3” – are parties to a 2015 nuclear deal with …
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ATHENS -Greece will ask the European Commission to exempt its 2026 defence spending from the EU’s budget rules as part of the so-called fiscal escape clause, its finance minister said on Tuesday. The country will submit a request later on Tuesday seeking to exempt defence spending worth 500 million euros ($569.60 million) earmarked for 2026, …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russian drone attacks killed a 12-year-old girl in central Ukraine and wounded three people in the capital Kyiv overnight, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday. One drone hit a residential building in Samarivskyi district in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine’s emergency service said. Residents pulled the girl out of the rubble but she …
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By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY (Reuters) – The trial of a woman accused of murdering three elderly people after serving them a lunch of poisonous mushrooms began in Australia on Tuesday, as additional charges of the attempted murder of her husband were dropped by prosecutors. Erin Patterson is charged with the 2023 murders of her mother-in-law …
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer congratulated Mark Carney on his victory in the Canadian election, saying he welcomed his leadership on international issues and expected to keep working closely with him on defence and other matters. “I welcome your leadership on international issues, and I know we will continue to work closely …
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(Reuters) – Russia’s overnight drone attack killed a 12-year-old girl in the Dnipropetrovsk region and injured her parents, Ukraine’s emergency service said on Tuesday. Another child was rescued from underneath the rubble, the emergency service said in a post on social media. (Reporting by Anna Pruchnicka in Gdynia and Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by …
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By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) -Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose Liberal Party won Canada’s election on Monday, is a two-time central banker and crisis fighter who now faces his biggest challenge of all: steering Canada through U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Carney’s ruling Liberals completed their comeback win over Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, but secured a …
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(Reuters) -Russia’s air defence units destroyed 91 Ukrainian drones overnight, with 40 of them downed over the Kursk region that borders Ukraine, Russia’s defence ministry said on Tuesday. Two of the drones were downed over the Moscow region, while the rest were destroyed over Russia’s western and southern regions as well as the Crimean Peninsula, …
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By Emma Pinedo, Catarina Demony and David Latona MADRID/LISBON (Reuters) -Power started returning to parts of the Iberian peninsula late on Monday after a huge outage brought most of Spain and Portugal to a standstill, grounding planes, halting public transport, and forcing hospitals to suspend routine operations. Spain’s Interior Ministry declared a national emergency, deploying …
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