By Guy Faulconbridge and Lucy Papachristou MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ukraine struck a heat and power station in the Moscow region on Sunday with drones, triggering a major fire and cutting off heating for thousands in one of Kyiv’s biggest attacks to date on a power station deep inside Russia. In the fourth year of the deadliest …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Ukraine’s borders cannot be changed by force, its army cannot be reduced leaving it vulnerable to an attack and the European Union must have a central role in a peace deal for Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. Von der Leyen’s statement on Sunday comes as top officials from the …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he will speak with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy later on Sunday, as Canadian and other Western security advisers meet in Geneva to discuss a peace plan put forward by the U.S. European and other Western leaders said on Saturday that the 28-point plan was a basis for …
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ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan praised a deal reached with Australia on Saturday to host next year’s U.N. climate summit, calling the compromise a meaningful achievement for multilateralism. Resolving a lengthy standoff, the two countries agreed that Turkey will host the COP31 summit in 2026 while Australia leads the negotiation process. Ankara and Canberra …
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(Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz discussed the war in Ukraine and situation in Gaza on the sidelines of the G20 summit in South Africa, the two countries said in a joint statement on Sunday. The two leaders reaffirmed support for Ukraine and emphasized that any agreement must involve Kyiv …
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By Julia Payne and Anastasiia Malenko JOHANNESBURG/KYIV (Reuters) -Western leaders said on Saturday that a peace plan proposed by the United States can be a basis for talks to end Russia’s war in Ukraine but needs “additional work”, part of Western efforts to eke out a better deal for Kyiv before a Thursday deadline. Meeting …
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(Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that the 28-point proposal for peace in Ukraine that emerged this week was authored by Washington, despite what a handful of senators said. “It is offered as a strong framework for ongoing negotiations,” Rubio posted on X. “It is based on input from the Russian …
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By Lisandra Paraguassu, Kate Abnett, William James and Sudarshan Varadhan BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazil’s COP30 presidency pushed through a compromise climate deal on Saturday that would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming but that omitted any mention of the fossil fuels driving it. In securing the accord, Brazil hoped to demonstrate global …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Air traffic at Eindhoven airport in the south of the Netherlands was suspended for several hours on Saturday evening due to multiple drone sightings, Dutch defence minister Ruben Brekelmans said in a post on X. Traffic resumed around 11 p.m. (2200 GMT), Brekelmans said, two hours after he had first reported the disruption. …
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By Manuela Andreoni BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazil insisted on hosting this year’s COP30 climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem to put rainforests at the heart of negotiations on how to curb global warming. But as delegates from almost every country concluded tense talks under the rainforest’s humid heat, the outcome for trees and …
