PARIS (Reuters) – Two French citizens held in Iran for almost three years have not had consular services for more than a year prompting Paris to prepare a complaint at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), France’s foreign ministry said on Thursday. Cecile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris have been held since May 2022. …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has opened a criminal case against the 69-year-old father of Leonid Volkov, a former aide to late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, state news agency TASS reported on Thursday. TASS quoted a security source as saying that Mikhail Volkov, a renowned mathematics professor, was suspected of transferring money to Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch police said they believed the driver of a car that caught fire on Thursday following an explosion in central Amsterdam may have been attempting to commit suicide. Police arrested the man, a 50-year old Dutchman, on suspicion of arson. Nobody was hurt in the incident except the suspect. “Police detectives are keeping …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has opened a criminal case against the 69-year-old father of Leonid Volkov, a former aide to late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, state news agency TASS reported on Thursday. TASS quoted a security source as saying that Mikhail Volkov, a renowned mathematics professor, was suspected of transferring money to Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Fund, …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ukraine appears to have resolved some of its shortages of troops fighting against Russia, including by widening the pool of eligible recruits, the top U.S. general in Europe said on Thursday. U.S. Army General Christopher Cavoli also underscored that any U.S. cutoff in U.S. provision of weapons and intelligence to Ukraine would …
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By Stephanie van den Berg and Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE (Reuters) – U.N. investigators examining allegations of sexual misconduct by International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan are also looking into alleged retaliation for the accusations, five sources briefed on the matter have told Reuters. The allegations being examined are that Khan retaliated against staff …
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Western-backed Caspian Pipeline Consortium is preparing to challenge in a Russian court a regulatory order that has crippled its exporting capabilities and threatened to cut oil flows to global markets, three industry sources told Reuters. Earlier this month, Russia’s transport regulator ordered the CPC consortium, whose shareholders include Chevron and Exxon Mobil, …
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HELSINKI (Reuters) – France or Britain should take the lead in engaging with Russia about Ukraine as part of European efforts to support Kyiv, Finland’s president Alexander Stubb said on Thursday. European countries who joined a “coalition of the willing” to back Ukraine agreed at a meeting last week that at least one of their …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s statistics agency, dogged by quality concerns about some of its widely used data, said on Thursday it would cut back some operations in order to focus on core economic and population figures in the face of tight funding. The Office for National Statistics said it had made “tough choices” due to a …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland wants to spend 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence in 2026, Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Thursday after a European Union defence ministers meeting in Warsaw. Galvanised by Russia’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine three years ago, Poland now spends a higher proportion of GDP on defence than any …
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