CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government on Sunday blasted the U.S. implementation of a rarely used wartime law, rapidly blocked by a U.S. judge, to deport over 200 alleged members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to El Salvador. “Venezuela rejects the application of an anachronistic law, illegal and in violation of human rights, against our …
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By Lidia Kelly (Reuters) -Russia will seek “ironclad” guarantees in any peace deal on Ukraine that NATO nations will exclude Kyiv from membership and that Ukraine will remain neutral, a Russian deputy foreign minister said in remarks published on Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to win President Vladimir Putin’s support for a 30-day …
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By Dave Sherwood HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba reconnected its national electrical grid and restored power to the majority of the capital Havana by late on Sunday, energy officials said, nearly two days after an island-wide outage knocked out power to 10 million people. Havana´s electric company said late on Sunday that approximately two-thirds of its clients …
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By Lili Bayer and Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Lithuania on Sunday backed an EU proposal to pledge up to 40 billion euros ($43.5 billion) in military aid for Ukraine this year and said a similar amount would also be needed in future years to deter any future Russian attack. “If we can sustain this …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s parliamentary budget committee on Sunday approved plans for a massive increase in state borrowing aimed at bolstering defence and reviving growth in Europe’s biggest economy. The committee convened for an extraordinary session and backed the plans — agreed on Friday between the conservative CDU/CSU, the Social Democrats and the Greens — …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli military strikes have killed at least 15 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the enclave’s health ministry said on Sunday, as Arab and U.S. mediators work to shore up a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Palestinian officials say dozens of people have been killed …
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By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday appointed Major-General Andriy Hnatov as Ukraine’s chief of the general staff as Kyiv seeks to speed up army reform. A decree published on the presidential website said General Hnatov, a deputy chief of staff, would replace Lieutenant-General Anatoliy Barhilevych. “We are consistently changing the …
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(This March 14 story has been refiled to remove the redundant ‘on Sunday’ in paragraph 5) By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA and SpaceX on Friday launched a long-awaited crew to the International Space Station that opens the door to bringing home U.S. astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been stuck on …
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(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to speak with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this week on ways to end the three-year war in Ukraine, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff told CNN on Sunday after returning from what he described as a “positive” meeting with Putin in Moscow. “I expect that there will be …
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By Maggie Michael, Feras Dalatey, Reade Levinson and Maya Gebeily DAMASCUS (Reuters) – The cries for revenge reached fever pitch on March 6. Dozens of messages posted by various armed factions on social media, and shared with hundreds of thousands of Syrians, called for a “general mobilization” – or “al nafeer” – to help crush …
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