JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Hamas on Saturday released a video purportedly of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander, who has been held in Gaza since he was captured by Palestinian militants on October 7, 2023. In the undated video, the man who introduces himself as Edan Alexander states he has been held in Gaza for 551 days. The …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russia launched a barrage of drones in an overnight attack on Ukraine, injuring four people and damaging residential and commercial buildings in Kyiv and other parts of the country, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday. Ukraine’s air defences shot down 56 of 88 Russian drones, its air force said. It added that 24 …
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By Jan Strupczewski and Karol Badohal BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union finance ministers expressed interest on Saturday in the idea of a joint defence fund that would buy and own defence equipment, but some also said the EU should first look at existing financing options before creating new ones. The discussion is part of a European …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italy has no intention for now of using budget leeway allowed by the European Union to boost its defence spending, its economy minister said on Saturday, despite U.S. pressure to increase military expenditure. The European Commission has proposed allowing member states to raise defence spending by 1.5% of gross domestic product each …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s defence ministry said on Saturday that Ukraine had carried out five attacks on Russian energy infrastructure over the past day, a violation of a U.S.-brokered moratorium on such strikes. Ukraine and Russia agreed to pause strikes on each other’s energy facilities last month, but both sides have repeatedly accused each other …
By Erin Banco, Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Less than 48 hours after dining with a negotiator sent by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Washington last week, Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy leading talks with Moscow, sat down with President Donald Trump in the White House and delivered a clear …
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SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) – The Dominican government released a report on Friday on the deadly roof collapse at a packed nightclub earlier this week that left at least 221 people dead. The report did not clarify the causes of the tragedy, while a team of national and international experts is expected to continue investigating the …
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By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with President Vladimir Putin on Friday in St. Petersburg about the search for a peace deal on Ukraine as Trump told Russia to “get moving”. Putin was shown on state TV greeting Witkoff in St. Petersburg’s presidential library at the …
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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s data regulator on Friday said it had opened an investigation into social media platform X over the use of personal data collected from European Union users to train its AI system Grok. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the lead EU regulator for X due to the location of its EU …
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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. and Ukrainian officials met on Friday on a U.S. proposal to gain access to Ukraine’s mineral wealth, a source with knowledge of the matter said, adding that prospects for a breakthrough were scant given the meeting’s “antagonistic” atmosphere. The strains in the Washington talks stemmed from the Trump …
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