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Zelenskiy discusses talks with U.S. officials, frontline in visits to the east

22 Mar 2025 22 Mar 2025

KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that he had met top military commanders in the country’s northeast to discuss the frontline in Ukraine’s war with Russia and meetings with U.S. officials due to get under way in Saudi Arabia on Sunday. Zelenskiy was shown on the media platform X with commanders in Ukraine’s …

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Military pressure will bring hostages back from Gaza, Israeli official says

22 Mar 2025 22 Mar 2025

By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel will keep striking Hamas targets in Gaza to ensure the return of hostages, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday, as European countries called for a ceasefire and access for aid supplies. Ophir Falk, Netanyahu’s foreign policy adviser, said military pressure pushed Hamas to …

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Russian shelling kills three in Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s east, governor says

22 Mar 2025 22 Mar 2025

(Reuters) – Russian shelling killed three people on Saturday in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, the regional governor said, one of the focal points of the advance westward of Russian troops. Vadym Filashkin, governor of Donetsk region, also wrote on the Telegram messaging app that one person was injured in the Russian attack. He …

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French film star Depardieu faces trial over sexual assault allegations

22 Mar 2025 22 Mar 2025

By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) – French actor Gerard Depardieu faces trial on Monday over alleged sexual assaults of two women on a film set, a case placing one of the world’s best known movie stars at the heart of France’s broader reckoning over sexual violence. A towering figure of French cinema, Depardieu has faced …

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Pope Francis to be discharged from hospital on Sunday, doctor says

22 Mar 2025 22 Mar 2025

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis will be discharged from hospital on Sunday and will need two months of rest at the Vatican, one of the doctors treating him said on Saturday. Francis, 88, was admitted to the hospital on February 14 with a severe respiratory infection that has required evolving treatment. (Reporting by Joshua …

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Germany temporarily shuts embassy in South Sudan amid fears of civil war

22 Mar 2025 22 Mar 2025

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany has temporarily closed its embassy in South Sudan’s capital Juba because of rising tensions that have brought the East African country to the verge of civil war, the German foreign ministry said on Saturday. South Sudan President Salva Kiir this week sacked the governor of Upper Nile state, where clashes have …

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Moldova issues wanted notice for missing pro-Russian lawmaker

22 Mar 2025 22 Mar 2025

By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) – Moldovan authorities have issued an international wanted notice for a missing pro-Russian member of parliament, who disappeared the day he was handed a 12-year jail sentence on corruption charges. A second pro-Russian lawmaker, due to be sentenced next week, has also disappeared, officials said. Both are associates of Ilan …

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Russian attacks kill seven in Ukraine, officials say

22 Mar 2025 22 Mar 2025

(Reuters) – Russian attacks killed a family of three late on Friday in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia and four more people in the country’s north and east, officials said. Zaporizhzhia regional governor Ivan Fedorov said on social media the city had been struck more than 10 times, with a 14-year-old girl and her …

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Top Russian security official, Serbian deputy PM discuss protests in Serbia, agencies say

22 Mar 2025 22 Mar 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council, has met Serbia’s outgoing deputy prime minister Alexandar Vulin in Moscow and discussed anti-government protests in his country, Russian state-run news agencies reported on Saturday. Both referred to the protests as an attempted “colour revolution,” a term used to describe pro-Western protests that toppled …

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Russia warns of ‘symmetrical response’ to Ukrainian attacks on energy facilities

22 Mar 2025 22 Mar 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia reserves the right to a “symmetrical response” to Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy facilities, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Friday of blowing up a Russian gas pumping station in a border area where Ukrainian troops have been retreating. Russia has repeatedly attacked …

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