(Reuters) -German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday that the United States should not to be misled by any “stalling tactics” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “At the upcoming meeting of NATO foreign ministers, we will make it clear to the American side that we should not engage with Putin’s stalling tactics,” she said …
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(Reuters) -Relations between Iran and the United States – once strong allies – have often been mistrustful and sometimes openly hostile since Iran’s 1979 revolution. Here are some key dates: 1953 – The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency helps orchestrate the overthrow of Iran’s popular Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, restoring to power Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. …
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By Louise Rasmussen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -A volcano erupted to the south of Iceland’s capital on Tuesday, spewing lava and smoke in a fiery display of orange and red that triggered the evacuation of tourists and residents, although air traffic continued as normal. Referred to as a land of ice and fire for its many glaciers …
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By Essi Lehto and Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) -NATO member Finland plans to quit a global convention banning anti-personnel landmines and boost defence spending to at least 3% of GDP by 2029 in response to the evolving military threat from Russia, the government said on Tuesday. Poland and the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has warned that strikes against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure would have “catastrophic” consequences, after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iran unless it came to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program. “Threats are indeed being heard, ultimatums are also being heard,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the Russian journal …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Tuesday that President Vladimir Putin was open to the idea of restoring relations between Finland and Russia, which it accused Helsinki of reducing to “nearly zero” after it joined NATO. Finland, which shares a 1,300-km (800-mile) border with Russia, joined the NATO military alliance in 2023, which Moscow cast …
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(Reuters) – More than 50% of Ukrainians are critical of U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace efforts, fearing they are likely to lead to a partly unjust or completely unfair end to Russia’s war on their country, a Ukrainian pollster said on Tuesday. Trump has promised to bring about a quick end to the three-year-old war …
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LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s governing centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) extended its lead in a new opinion poll ahead of a snap general election on May 18, though the projection showed it still falling short of a parliamentary majority. The survey by pollster Pitagorica for TVI broadcaster and TSF radio, released late on Monday, put support …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine will work with the United States towards a mutually acceptable text of a minerals deal that the two countries can sign, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Tuesday. Sybiha told a press conference that one round of consultations had already taken place on a new draft of the minerals deal …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Prosecutors in Poland have charged a Ukrainian man who was born in Russia with participating in activities linked to Russian intelligence, they said on Tuesday. The Polish Internal Security Agency had detained the man earlier in March, and a district court in Warsaw decided at the time to detain him for three …
