BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romania detained six people on charges of trying to overthrow the state with Russia’s help, prosecutors said on Thursday, and a 101-year-old former army major general said his home had been raided as part of the investigation. The suspects were detained on Wednesday, the same day Romania – a European Union and NATO …
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnia’s prosecutors said on Thursday that Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik was being investigated for attacking the country’s constitutional order, the day after he signed laws banning the state judiciary and police from its autonomous Serb region. A state court last week sentenced Dodik, the Serb Republic’s president, to a year in …
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By Anastasiia Malenko and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian missile struck a hotel in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih late on Wednesday, killing four people and injuring 32, and rescuers were still searching on Thursday morning for anyone trapped in the rubble, officials said. A group of humanitarian organization volunteers from Ukraine, …
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(Corrects first bullet point to make clear IOM has not halted all support) By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) -The United Nations’ migration agency has slashed aid to hundreds of Rohingya refugees in Indonesia, according to a letter seen by Reuters and two people briefed on the matter, because of massive funding cuts by their biggest …
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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron has said he will launch a strategic dialogue on extending the protection offered by France’s nuclear arsenal to its European partners. Europe’s primary nuclear deterrence comes from the United States and is a decades-old symbol of trans-Atlantic solidarity. France has a much smaller nuclear arsenal than …
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(Reuters) – Border service officers of Belarus detained a Ukrainian citizen at the Latvian border, who planned to conduct “extremist activities” in Russia, the service said on Thursday, adding that several alleged accomplices were also detained. The guards arrested the man, who was not named, as he attempted to cross from Latvia into Belarus, which …
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MADRID (Reuters) -A Spanish prosecutor has asked for a retrial after the High Court sentence convicting the former head of the country’s soccer federation, Luis Rubiales, for kissing national team player Jenni Hermoso without her consent, the prosecutor’s office said on Thursday. Last month, the court found Rubiales guilty of sexual assault and fined him …
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By Alvise Armellini and Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – A major exhibition dedicated to baroque master Caravaggio opens on Friday in Rome, including normally out-of-reach works from private collections and others not seen in the artist’s Italian homeland for centuries. Caravaggio, born as Michelangelo Merisi, was a virtuoso of the chiaroscuro technique of lighting to …
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PARIS (Reuters) -France’s defence minister said intelligence it provided to Ukraine was unaffected by the U.S. suspension of intelligence sharing with Kyiv, but warned that Washington’s halt in military aid would harm Ukraine’s operations against Russia’s invasion. The United States made the decision as part of efforts to crank up pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Thursday that a French and British peace initiative on Ukraine was a bid to buy time for Kyiv and prevent its military collapse. “In reality, we are dealing with an open desire to achieve a respite at any cost for the Kyiv regime in its death throes, for the …
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