By Anastasiia Malenko KYIV (Reuters) – You’ll receive a generous salary, a bumper bonus and an interest-free loan to buy a home. The challenge? You’ll have to fight on the frontlines of Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II. It’s a tough sell to young people with their whole lives ahead of them. Two months …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine has detained a foreign vessel in its territorial waters which it alleges was involved in the illegal trade of stolen Ukrainian grain, the state security service SBU said on Friday. Kyiv has accused Russia of trading stolen Ukrainian grain since the 2022 war in Ukraine began, allegations Russia denies. Ship seizures, …
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PARIS (Reuters) – The French foreign ministry helped to evacuate 115 people from Gaza this week and those people have now arrived in France, said the ministry on Friday, adding that France remained opposed to the forced displacement of people from Gaza. (Reporting by John Irish; Editing by Alison Williams)
(Reuters) – The Iranian foreign ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador to Tehran on Friday, the official IRNA news agency reported, a day after the Netherlands called in Iran’s envoy over suspicions that Iran was behind two assassination attempts. An Iranian foreign ministry official described the Dutch accusation as “laughable” and based on “suspicions or assumptions”, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s President Vladimir Putin met U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff in the Kremlin on Friday, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by Interfax as saying. “Russian President Vladimir Putin is receiving President Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff in the Kremlin,” Peskov was cited as saying. (Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Anastasia …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Kyiv’s delegation at a meeting with allies in London this week reaffirmed the principles on which talks on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine are based, including never recognising any part of Ukrainian territory as Russian, Ukraine’s foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday. Spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi told a briefing that the Ukrainian delegation …
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By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) -Former Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello was arrested on Friday in the northeastern city of Maceio after a Supreme Court justice rejected his challenges against a previous conviction and ordered him to start serving jail time. Collor’s lawyer, Marcelo Bessa, said he was arrested at 4:00 a.m. local time …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Reuters has seen the text of a set of proposals on how to end Russia’s war in Ukraine that were given to the U.S. side on Wednesday by Ukrainian and European officials at talks in London. The text of the document is published in full with no changes. OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE Russia-Ukraine Deal Framework …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – The Polish government has sent a proposed judicial reform to European legal experts for approval in a new attempt to undo changes by its predecessor that prompted the European Union to fine Poland for undermining judicial independence. Previous attempts at reform by Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s pro-European coalition have been blocked by …
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(Reuters) -Five people, including a child, were killed in renewed Russian attacks on Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said on Friday. Three of the victims were killed in the city of Pavlohrad after a drone strike, said Serhiy Lysak, governor of the central Dnipropetrovsk region. “The aggressor again conducted a mass attack on the region with drones,” …
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