MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin has ordered several planes to be sent to Iran to help deal with the aftermath of a blast at Iran’s port of Bandar Abbas, Russia’s emergency ministry said on Sunday. Putin has expressed his condolences over the loss of life and offered to provide a help to Iran dealing …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Jordan Bardella plans to be the French far-right National Rally’s presidential candidate in 2027 if the party’s leader Marine Le Pen remains barred from running, he told Le Parisien newspaper. Le Pen, 56, who has run for president three times and was a front-runner for the election, was barred from seeking public …
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(Reuters) – Russia launched 149 drones at Ukraine overnight, Ukraine’s air force said on Sunday, with the governor of an eastern region reporting one person killed and one wounded as a result. Serhiy Lysak, governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, said a man was killed in the city of Pavlohrad, and a 14-year-old girl was wounded. He …
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(This April 26 story has been refiled to correct the spelling of Hormuz in paragraph 9) DUBAI (Reuters) – A huge blast probably caused by the explosion of chemical materials killed at least 18 people and injured more than 700 on Saturday at Iran’s biggest port, Bandar Abbas, Iranian state media reported. The explosion, which …
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By Steve Holland and Angelo Amante VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis, met one-on-one in a marble-lined Vatican basilica on Saturday to try to revive faltering efforts to end Russia’s war with Ukraine. Zelenskiy said the meeting could prove historic if …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s FSB security service said on Saturday it had detained a suspect over the killing of a senior Russian military officer on Friday by a car bomb. The Kremlin blamed Ukraine for the killing of 59-year-old Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian …
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By Parisa Hafezi MUSCAT (Reuters) -Iran and the United States have agreed to continue nuclear talks next week, both sides said on Saturday, though Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi voiced “extreme cautious” about the success of the negotiations to resolve a decades-long standoff. U.S. President Donald Trump has signalled confidence in clinching a new pact …
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By Giulia Segreti ROME (Reuters) – Romans cheered, clapped and cried on Saturday as they watched the simple, open-topped, white “pope-mobile” carry Francis’ coffin from the Vatican to his chosen burial place at the heart of the Eternal City. “When a pope dies, another one is made,” a well-known and rather cynical Roman proverb says, …
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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – In front of hundreds of world leaders attending the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re called for care for migrants, an end to wars, and action on global climate change – Francis’ favourite political themes. Re repeated one of the pope’s strongest criticisms …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – U.S President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed on Saturday during a short exchange on the sidelines of Pope Francis’ funeral to meet at a later stage, von der Leyen’s spokesperson said. “In their brief exchange, President von der Leyen and President Trump agreed to meet,” Paula …
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