(Reuters) – Russian attacks killed at least three people in Ukraine’s south and injured 10 more on Thursday, local authorities said, after an overnight barrage of missiles and drones. Two men, aged 56 and 61, were killed, and five more were wounded in artillery shelling on Nikopol, the regional governor said on the Telegram messenger. …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Finland’s customs authority said on Thursday it was investigating an attempted breach of Russian sanctions in a case involving sensitive documents related to the construction of a nuclear power plant. “The preliminary investigation has focused on a significant number of archive documents that were attempted to be taken to Russia from a …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Thursday said that a meeting between the U.S., Ukraine and European countries in Paris was a chance for U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff to inform them of the current status of talks about the search for a peace settlement in Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that President Vladimir …
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PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech Republic has become fully independent of Russian oil supplies for the first time in its history, government officials said on Thursday, following the completion of capacity upgrades on the TAL pipeline coming from the west. The first increased supplies along the pipeline have reached the central oil depot in the …
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By Sodiq Adelakun and Sam Tabahriti LONDON (Reuters) – The roughly 35,000 people for whom the waterways of England and Wales are home are worried that what has long been a low-cost alternative to living on solid ground is being made unaffordable by government spending cuts and inflation. Especially in London, the waterways managed by …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British lenders expect to see demand for mortgages level off in the months ahead after they reported an increase in early 2025, a Bank of England survey showed on Thursday. The measure of expected availability of mortgages rose to its highest level in four years, the BoE’s quarterly Credit Conditions Survey showed. …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian air defence systems destroyed or intercepted 71 Ukrainian drones over six Russian regions overnight, Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday. Most of the drones – 49 – were downed in the Kursk region, others – in Oryol, Ryazan, Bryansk, Vladimir and Tula regions. In a statement posted on Telegram, the authorities in …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Drug-traffickers were most likely behind an unprecedented wave of attacks against French prisons though foreign influence and the far-left remain possible instigators, French interior minister Bruno Retailleau said on Thursday. “It’s most likely drug-dealing scum. It is one of the most credible scenarios,” Retailleau told RTL radio. At least nine prison facilities …
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By Feras Dalatey, Joanna Plucinska, Reade Levinson, Maha El Dahan DAMASCUS/LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) -As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the corporate web behind his wealth. Yasar Ibrahim, the president’s …
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By Emma Farge, Nidal al-Mughrabi, Hatem Khaled and Ramadan Abed KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza (Reuters) – The Gaza Strip is strewn with undetonated explosives from tens of thousands of Israeli air strikes, leaving the territory “uninhabitable”, according to the U.S. government. In February, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested the United States take over Gaza and take …
