(This April 16 story has been corrected to say ‘Keith Kellogg’ in paragraph 6) PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot on Thursday during his visit to Paris and they will discuss the war in Ukraine, the situation in the Middle East and Iran nuclear talks, …
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By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian politicians were gifted about A$245,000 ($147,000) in match tickets over nearly two years by the country’s most popular sporting leagues as part of a lobbying campaign against a proposed ban on advertising of online gambling, according to Reuters calculations based on government documents. Lobbying by the gambling industry against …
(Reuters) – Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin on Wednesday met Russian nationals freed from captivity in the Gaza strip after militant group Hamas’ October 2023 attacks on Israel and said Moscow’s longstanding ties with Palestinians helped secure their freedom. “The fact that you are now free is a result of Russia’s many years of stable relations …
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By Juliette Jabkhiro and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that those behind an unprecedented wave of attacks against French prisons would be tracked down and punished after violence flared for a third night. A car was set on fire in front of the home of a prison guard …
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Russian investigators have found that sonic weapons were not used by Serbian authorities to disperse a mass protest in March, Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday, after Europe expressed concern over allegations of their use. Last month, the Serbian authorities invited the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia, a close ally, …
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The former governor of Russia’s Kursk region, parts of which were seized by Ukrainian forces in August 2024, has been detained and charged with embezzling money earmarked for building defences, Russia’s interior ministry said on Thursday. Alexei Smirnov was head of the western region when Ukrainian troops smashed across the border in a …
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By Sriparna Roy (Reuters) -The European Commission on Tuesday authorized the use of Eisai and Biogen’s drug to treat some patients with mild cognitive impairment in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, ending a more than two-year-long review process. This makes Leqembi the first approved drug in the European Union that targets an underlying cause …
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By Jan Lopatka (Reuters) – The Slovak parliament approved a law on Wednesday tightening reporting and other requirements for non-governmental organisations, changes those organisations called “Russian law” in which the government was settling scores with critics from the civil sector. The law orders non-governmental organisations to detail their donors and publish wide lists of officials, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union’s space success in the 1950s and 1960s, state news agency TASS reported. TASS cited Putin, who was speaking on Russia’s space policy at a meeting with students, as saying: “You know, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Iran on Wednesday rejected a British accusation that it was connected to the Sweden-based criminal gang known as ‘Foxtrot’ after Britain’s government had earlier this week sanctioned the group saying it had committed attacks on behalf of Tehran. On Monday, Britain said Foxtrot had attacked Israeli and Jewish targets across Europe for …
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