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Four civilians killed in Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Kursk region, governor says

12 Mar 2025 12 Mar 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Four civilians were killed and two others wounded in a Ukrainian attack on Wednesday on a feed mill in Russia’s western Kursk region, the governor said. Three men and one woman, employees at the mill in Kozyrevka, died, Alexander Khinshtein wrote on Telegram. One of the injured had been hospitalised, he said. …

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Syria’s Shibani expected at Brussels donor summit

12 Mar 2025 12 Mar 2025

DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syria’s foreign minister Asaad al-Shibani is set to attend a donor summit for his country in Brussels on March 17, a European official told Reuters on Wednesday, the first time Syria will be formally represented at the yearly conference. The official said that Syria’s interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa was not expected to be …

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US to resume security support to Ukraine as Kyiv says it is ready to accept ceasefire proposal

12 Mar 2025 12 Mar 2025

By Daphne Psaledakis and Pesha Magid JEDDAH (Reuters) -The United States agreed on Tuesday to resume military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine after Kyiv said it was ready to support Washington’s proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia, the countries said in a joint statement. After more than eight hours of talks with Ukrainian …

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Poland confirms supplies of US arms to Ukraine have resumed

12 Mar 2025 12 Mar 2025

WARSAW (Reuters) -Supplies of arms from the United States to Ukraine through Poland have resumed, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Wednesday. After more than eight hours of talks between Ukrainian and U.S. officials in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the United States agreed to resume military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine. “I confirm …

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Russian missile attack on central Ukraine kills one person, wounds nine, local officials say

12 Mar 2025 12 Mar 2025

KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih killed a 47-year-old woman and wounded at least nine other people, Dnipropetrovsk regional governor Serhiy Lysak said on Wednesday. The attack also damaged an infrastructure facility, high-rise apartment buildings, administrative buildings, a shop and an educational facility, he added in a …

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Martin Pfister elected as new Swiss federal council member

12 Mar 2025 12 Mar 2025

ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland’s parliament on Wednesday elected Martin Pfister to be the new member of the country’s federal council, or cabinet, replacing Viola Amherd, who is stepping down at the end of this month. Pfister edged out his colleague Markus Ritter, with both men representing the centrist Die Mitte party. Amherd, the Swiss defence …

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Poland charges Belarusian with arson on behalf of Russian intelligence

12 Mar 2025 12 Mar 2025

WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland has charged a Belarusian citizen who set fire to a large hardware store in Warsaw last April with committing an act of sabotage on behalf of Russian intelligence, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Poland says its role as a hub for supplies to Ukraine has made it a key target for spies …

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Tennis-Ukraine’s Svitolina thankful for US support after Trump-Zelenskiy clash

12 Mar 2025 12 Mar 2025

(Reuters) – Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina said she had received an outpouring of support from Americans following U.S. President Donald Trump’s extraordinary clash with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the White House last month. Svitolina thanked Americans for their “unwavering support” and “compassion” in a social media post on Sunday after beating Danielle Collins in …

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Ukraine says Russia launched three missiles, 133 drones in overnight attack

12 Mar 2025 12 Mar 2025

KYIV (Reuters) – The Ukrainian military said on Wednesday that Russia launched three missiles and 133 drones in an overnight attack. It said the air force shot down 98 drones. Another 20 drones did not reach their targets, likely due to electronic warfare countermeasures, it added. It did not say what happened to the remaining …

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Putin’s spy chief holds phone call with CIA director

12 Mar 2025 12 Mar 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin, held a phone call on Tuesday with the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday. They discussed issues of cooperation between their respective intelligence agencies and crisis management. (Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Lucy Papachristou; editing by …

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