By Vladimir Soldatkin and Mark Trevelyan MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had trapped the remaining Ukrainian soldiers in its western Kursk region, where they have clung on for more than seven months in one of the key battles of the war. A day after instructing his top commanders to complete …
MADRID (Reuters) – One of Spain’s top courts on Thursday backed a plan by Barcelona to ban holiday apartment rentals by 2028, rejecting an appeal that argued the measure infringed on the rights of private property owners. Barcelona was the first Spanish city to adopt a radical decision to shut down all short-term rentals as …
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(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his special envoy Steve Witkoff is in serious discussions with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine. “Hopefully they’ll do the right thing,” Trump told reporters during an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. Trump said he did not think Russia would attack …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A Ukrainian government official said on Thursday that Kyiv understood it could not recapture all its occupied territory through military force from Russian troops right now and that its recovery would have to happen diplomatically over time. The official, who asked not to be named, told reporters at a briefing two days …
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnia’s Serb Republic on Thursday pushed ahead with separatist reforms in violation of the country’s constitution, and its pro-Russian leader Milorad Dodik publicly goaded state prosecutors one day after they issued a warrant for his arrest. The actions raise the stakes in a dispute which pits Dodik and his allies Russia and …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia agreed with U.S. proposals for a ceasefire in Ukraine but that any ceasefire would have to deal with the root causes of the conflict and that many details needed to be sorted out. The following are Putin’s key quotes translated by Reuters reporters from Russian. …
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By Sarah Marsh, Thomas Escritt and Matthias Williams BERLIN (Reuters) -Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz urged sceptical lawmakers on Thursday to back his proposals for a massive increase in state borrowing, framing them as a test for Germany to stand tall on the world stage and safeguard European security. Merz is in a race against time to …
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Israel carried out an airstrike on the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, targeting what the military said was a command centre belonging to Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad. Syria’s state news agency said three civilians had been hurt, including a woman who was in critical condition, and that the building was at the …
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By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission will invite EU countries to swiftly agree on their most pressing defence needs with a view to launching “large-scale pan-European flagship projects”, according to a draft white paper seen by Reuters on Thursday. The white paper on the future of European defence, due to be published …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – A project on a subsea power cable to link continental Europe to the East Mediterranean will materialise, Greek foreign minister said on Thursday after meeting his Israeli and Cypriot counterparts. Media reports earlier this week suggested that the project had stalled over territorial differences. Greek power grid operator IPTO is building the …
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