By Andrew Osborn and Guy Faulconbridge (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the West would be directly fighting with Russia if it allowed Ukraine to strike Russian territory with Western-made long-range missiles, a move he said would alter the nature and scope of the conflict. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been pleading …
By Daphne Psaledakis, Barbara Erling and Simon Lewis WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland added its voice on Thursday to calls to allow Ukraine to fire Western-supplied missiles deep into Russia as it hosted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken for talks in Warsaw. Kyiv has been pressing the Biden administration and other Western governments to authorise long-range …
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PARIS (Reuters) -Around 80 villagers were evacuated as a wildfire raged in the mountains of southwestern France on Thursday, authorities said. The fire broke out mid afternoon and spread across 400 hectares of ground in the Pyrenees-Orientales department, the local prefect’s office said. There were no immediate reports of damage to property, or of injuries …
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ATHENS (Reuters) -Experts will this week resume a risky operation to salvage the Sounion tanker that was repeatedly attacked by Yemen’s Houthis in the Red Sea last month and still holds about one million barrels of crude oil, maritime sources said on Thursday. The towing of the 900-foot (274.2-metre), Greek-registered vessel – which was struck …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary is ready to sue the European Commission to reimburse the costs of protecting the European Union’s external border, which Budapest says has cost it some 2 billion euros ($2.20 billion), Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff said. Nationalist Orban closed down a major transit route through Hungary for hundreds of thousands …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russian drones inflicted significant damage to the northern Ukrainian town of Konotop’s energy infrastructure in an overnight attack that injured at least 14 people and cut electricity to the settlement, local officials said on Thursday. Rescuers were working to restore power in the town, which had a pre-war population of about 83,000. …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British foreign minister David Lammy said on Wednesday Britain would provide a further 600 million pounds ($781 million) of support for Ukraine as he visited Kyiv with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The British government said it would provide 242 million pounds of funding, including for humanitarian needs, and 484 million …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A spacecraft carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan late on Wednesday evening and docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft was carrying NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Russians Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. Russian news agencies, referring to …
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By Daphne Psaledakis and Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) -The U.S. and British foreign ministers met President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday on a visit interrupted by air raid warnings, unveiling new support but no breakthrough on the long-range strikes into Russia that are desperately wanted by Ukraine. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British foreign …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said six staffers were killed after two airstrikes hit a school in central Gaza on Wednesday, marking what it said was the highest death toll among its staff in a single incident. “Among those killed was the manager of the UNRWA shelter and other team members providing …
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