(Reuters) – Firefighters are bringing under control a large fire in a warehouse in Russia’s southern region of Samara, after Ukraine launched an overnight drone attack targeting enterprises there, media and authorities said on Monday. “There are no injuries,” Russia’s emergency ministry said on the Telegram messaging app, citing early details of the fire in …
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the United States had “just about” ended a suspension of intelligence sharing with Ukraine, and that he expects good results out of upcoming talks with Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia. Asked if he would consider ending the suspension, Trump said, “We just …
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By Virginia Furness LONDON (Reuters) – Ambitions by the BRICS group to take on a greater climate leadership role, building on success last month at United Nations nature talks, depend on the countries overcoming fractious politics and entrenched disagreements over money. As the United States has withdrawn from global efforts to combat climate change and, …
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By Jaidaa Taha and Suleiman Al-Khalidi DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syria’s leader vowed on Sunday to hunt down the perpetrators of violent clashes pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad against the country’s new Islamist rulers and said he would hold to account anyone who overstepped their authority. The clashes, which a war monitoring group said had …
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By Steve Holland, Gram Slattery and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. officials are planning to use Tuesday’s meeting with a Ukrainian delegation in Saudi Arabia in part to determine whether Ukraine is willing to make material concessions to Russia to end the war, according to two U.S. officials. The U.S. delegation will also be watching …
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By Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – European arms imports rose 155% in 2020-24 and Ukraine has become the world’s biggest arms importer following Russia’s 2022 invasion, according to a report released by a leading conflict think tank on Monday. Data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) showed the United States continued to dominate …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Felix Light MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian forces on Sunday recaptured three more settlements in Russia’s western Kursk region, the Defence Ministry said, part of an operation to evict Ukrainian troops holding chunks of territory seven months after a cross-border incursion. The ministry statement, posted on the Telegram messaging app, followed reports by …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Poland’s foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski of “making things up” and suggested on Sunday he was ungrateful, in a strong rebuke after Sikorski said Ukraine may need an alternative to the Starlink satellite service. Poland pays for Kyiv to use the services of Elon Musk’s Starlink, which …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Meetings between Hamas leaders and U.S. hostage negotiator Adam Boehler in recent days focused on the release of an American-Israeli dual national being held by the militant group in Gaza, a senior Hamas official told Reuters on Sunday. Taher Al-Nono, political adviser to the leader of the Palestinian group, confirmed …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Sunday said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing their nuclear weapons, but not as a substitute for U.S. nuclear protection of Europe. “Sharing nuclear weapons is an issue that we need to talk about … we have to become stronger together in nuclear deterrence,” …
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