MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian military court on Tuesday sentenced five people for up to 18 years in jail after finding them guilty of setting fire to railway infrastructure and a helicopter outside Moscow last year, the TASS state news agency reported. TASS cited state prosecutors as saying that the group had acted on the …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Tuesday declined to comment when asked if Russia was ready to take control of Iran’s stocks of enriched uranium as part of a possible future nuclear deal between Iran and the United States. The Guardian reported that Tehran was expected to reject a U.S. proposal to transfer its stockpile …
By Angelo Amante and Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – Russia does not appear serious about seeking peace in Ukraine despite pressure from Washington, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto told Reuters in an interview in which he also voiced anger over Israeli strikes on Gaza. Italy’s conservative government is ideologically aligned with U.S. President Donald Trump …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said his ministry could only provide a technical assessment of a potential deal with U.S. billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink company over encrypted satellite communications, but the issue had been overly politicised. “In theory, the only evaluation we should give to the Starlink system … should be purely …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Tuesday that there is not yet a clear outline of a potential U.S.-Russia deal on Ukraine, but that the political will to move in the direction of an agreement is there. In a call with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that contacts with the U.S. had been …
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany has been certified as free of foot-and-mouth disease by the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH), the federal agriculture ministry said on Tuesday. Germany announced its first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease since 1988 on January 10 in a herd of water buffalo on the outskirts of Berlin, in the Brandenburg region. …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign spy service chief, Sergei Naryshkin, said that the security services of Russia and Belarus were ready to act proactively, given what he said was increased escalation from Europe over Ukraine, state news agency RIA reported on Tuesday. RIA cited Naryshkin as saying that, in the event of an attack on …
By Ossian Shine -Better late than never, as they say, some 135 years after Willoughby Hamilton and Lena Rice pulled off an historic men’s and women’s singles sweep for Ireland at Wimbledon, Tennis Ireland has announced plans to open the country’s first indoor tennis arena. The long-abandoned Dundalk Ice Dome — once home to the …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian military court on Tuesday jailed a soldier for 15 years after convicting him of desertion and voluntary surrender to Ukraine, Russia’s first such prosecution, the Kommersant newspaper reported. Russia in September 2022 introduced the crime of voluntary surrender, which is punishable by between three and 10 years in prison. According …
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Catholic Church will proclaim its first millennial saint on April 27, elevating Carlo Acutis, a teenage web developer who died from leukaemia in 2006, to the same status as Saint Francis and Mother Teresa. Here is a brief summary of how the Roman Catholic Church recognises sainthood. The process that …
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