By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) – A Russian comedian has been arrested while trying to leave the country after he was publicly denounced for allegedly mocking war invalids. In a clip from a stand-up performance that was posted online, Artemy Ostanin told a joke about a supposed encounter with a legless beggar in the Moscow metro. …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has updated U.S. President Donald Trump on talks between the ‘coalition of the willing’ to both strengthen Ukraine and provide support in the event of peace deal with Russia, his spokesperson said on Tuesday. A spokesperson for Starmer said the call happened late on Monday. “The prime …
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By Olesya Astakhova MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia sees big prospects to work with the United States, including in the space sector, and expects to hold talks with Elon Musk soon about flying to Mars, President Vladimir Putin’s international cooperation envoy said on Tuesday. Kirill Dmitriev, who was named by Putin last month as his special …
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By Alfie Pannell QUIBDO, Colombia (Reuters) – The global suspension of USAID funding is shuttering peace and anti-gang programs in Colombia’s most impoverished places, endangering implementation of the country’s 2016 peace deal with leftist FARC rebels, according to officials, people working with the agency and beneficiaries. The Trump administration’s freeze of nearly all funding for the …
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(Reuters) – The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is considering recognising Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as Russian territory in a possible future peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, the Semafor news website reported. Semafor, citing two people familiar with the matter, said U.S. officials had also discussed the …
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SARAJEVO – The chairperson of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Elina Valtonen, on Tuesday urged rival leaders in Bosnia to respect constitutional order and engage in talks to resolve a political crisis. Valtonen was visiting Bosnia and Herzegovina as the Balkan country faces its biggest political crisis since the end of its …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – An Israeli air strike killed three Palestinian men in Gaza on Monday as they tried to gather firewood, medics said, with no sign of progress in renewed talks on sustaining a ceasefire deal between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. In the latest bloodshed to underline the fragility of …
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(Reuters) -Israel hit Gaza with heavy airstrikes on Tuesday, shattering nearly two months of ceasefire without formally declaring an end to a January truce agreement with Hamas. The violence threatens to renew full-scale warfare between Israel and Hamas that erupted when Palestinian militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking …
By Maha El Dahan, Parisa Hafezi and Mohammed Ghobari DUBAI (Reuters) – Yemen’s Houthis will not “dial down” their action against Israeli shipping in the Red Sea in response to U.S. military pressure or appeals from the group’s allies such as Iran, the Yemeni militant group’s foreign minister said. Jamal Amer spoke to Reuters late …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will hold a phone call between 1300 and 1500 GMT on Tuesday to talk about settling the Ukraine conflict and normalising relations between Russia and the United States, the Kremlin said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there was already a “certain understanding” between the two leaders, …
