AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch government said on Monday it had tightened export controls for all military and ‘dual use’ goods destined for Israel. All direct exports and the transit of these goods to Israel will be checked to see if they comply with European regulations, and will no longer be covered by general export …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia was ready to do all it could to help resolve tensions between the United States and Iran around Tehran’s nuclear programme, as Washington demands Tehran do a nuclear deal with it or be bombed. Moscow has repeatedly offered to mediate between the two sides after warnings …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian Defence Ministry said on Monday that Ukraine had attacked Russian energy infrastructure six times over the previous day, despite a U.S.-brokered moratorium on strikes on energy facilities. The ministry said Ukrainian strikes had hit power facilities and electrical substations in Russia’s Rostov, Voronezh and Bryansk regions, as well as in …
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(Reuters) – A Russian court in Vladivostok slightly cut the sentence of U.S. soldier Gordon Black who was jailed last year after being found guilty of stealing $113 from his girlfriend and making threats to kill her, Russian agencies reported on Monday. Russia’s RIA and TASS state news agencies, citing court proceedings, reported that the …
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KYIV (Reuters) – A Ukrainian team will travel to the United States early this week to discuss a minerals deal, a Ukrainian source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed a more expansive minerals deal which Ukraine has been reviewing in the recent days. (Reporting by Pavel …
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By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s opposition Liberal Party abandoned on Monday a plan to force government workers to return to the office full-time, as incumbent Labor gained in polls ahead of a May 3 election. Working from home emerged as an election battleground last month after the Liberal Party said it would bar …
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By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Israeli military has provided new details that changed its initial account of the killing of 15 emergency workers near the southern Gaza city of Rafah last month, but said investigators were still examining the evidence. The 15 paramedics and emergency responders were shot dead on March 23 and buried …
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By Gabriel Stargardter and Yann Tessier PARIS (Reuters) -French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said on Sunday she would peacefully fight her five-year ban from running for office and draw inspiration from American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., as thousands of people rallied in Paris to back her. A Paris court convicted Le …
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(Reuters) -Two British members of parliament who were refused entry to Israel have returned to London after attempting to visit the West Bank on a fact-finding trip, they said on Sunday. Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang from Britain’s governing Labour Party were travelling as part of a parliamentary delegation, but were stopped at the border …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Sunday that its troops had taken the village of Basivka in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, and were battering Ukrainian forces at a host of settlements in the area. More than two years after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv sent thousands of troops over the border into Russia’s Kursk region …
