KYIV (Reuters) – A widely-used online Ukrainian battlefield map appeared to show Ukrainian forces no longer in control of the town of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region on Wednesday. The Deep State map, which is not an official government document and says it is updated by a team of Ukrainian users with publicly available …
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(Reuters) -Ukrainian troops sprang one of the biggest surprises of the war by invading Russia’s Kursk region last August, and Russia has taken more than seven months to eject them. Here is a timeline of the fighting there and what both sides have said about it. August 6, 2024: Ukrainian troops smash across the border …
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By Birsen Altayli ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The leader of a Turkish nationalist party has said he was arrested and detained on political grounds as part of an opposition crackdown that contradicts the government’s purported effort to boost democracy while ending a Kurdish militant insurgency. Umit Ozdag, leader of the Victory Party and known for his …
By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis will on Thursday mark the 12th anniversary of his election as leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, but he will do so from Rome’s Gemelli hospital where he has been treated for double pneumonia for almost a month. The latest bulletins from the Vatican on …
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By Lefteris Papadimas ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece will spend more than 25 billion euros in arms procurements by 2036, including new submarines, drones, satellites and fighter jets, under a 12-year plan to be submitted to parliament in the coming weeks, three officials with knowledge of the plan told Reuters. The move is part of Greece’s …
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By Alexandra Schwarz-Goerlich VIENNA (Reuters) -The new Austrian government ordered an immediate halt to family reunifications for asylum claimants on Wednesday as it seeks to address widespread concern about immigration that has stoked support for the far-right. Invoking European Union emergency provisions relating to national security, the three-party coalition said it was temporarily freezing all …
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SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnian state prosecutors have ordered the arrest of Russian-backed Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik for ignoring a court summons, raising the stakes in a standoff that threatens the Balkan country’s stability. Here are key facts on Bosnia’s complex structure following the war of the 1990s and what Dodik’s sentence could mean: HOW …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The credit ratings agency Moody’s said on Wednesday that it deemed the outlook for banking sectors in France, Germany, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands as “stable”, an improvement from an early “negative” outlook. The ratings agency said risks continue as a result of geopolitical tensions, including tariffs. But the outlook in major …
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(Reuters) – A Russian missile attack on Tuesday damaged a grain vessel in the Black Sea port of Odesa, killing four people, Ukrainian authorities said. A ballistic missile struck the MJ Pinar bulk carrier that was loading wheat for Algeria, killing four Syrian nationals and injuring one other Syrian and a Ukrainian, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime …
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By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) -Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been imprisoned since 2021, was sentenced on Wednesday to nine more years in jail after being found guilty of embezzlement. Saakashvili, in office from 2004 to 2013, had been convicted of embezzling 9 million Georgian lari ($3.3 million) via expenses claims for what …
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