NAIROBI (Reuters) -Rwanda is asking Britain for a 50 million-pound ($63.62 million) payment over a cancelled asylum deal, a source close to the government in Kigali said on Tuesday, after London paused some bilateral aid to the African country over the war in Congo. On taking office last July, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer scrapped …
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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has paused military aid to Ukraine following his clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy last week, a White House official said, deepening a fissure that has opened between the one-time allies. Here are reactions to the move. UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER DENYS SHMYHAL “Our military and the government have the capabilities, …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland will review its Recovery and Resilience Plan with a view to redirecting funds towards defence and economic resilience, Polish Funds Minister Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz said on Tuesday. The minister said last month that EU funds should be redirected from the EU recovery facility to security. The EU’s recovery facility provides Poland with …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has agreed to assist U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration in communicating with Iran on various issues, including on Tehran’s nuclear programme and its support for regional anti-U.S. proxies, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The report, which was picked up by Russian state media, quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying that “Russia …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Prosecutors have requested that a French police officer stands trial for murder after the deadly shooting of a teenager in 2023 that sparked violent protests across the country, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday. In a statement, prosecutors said they had concluded their investigation into the shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M. …
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DUBAI/ANKARA (Reuters) -Iran and Turkey’s foreign ministries summoned their envoys after a diplomatic spat over Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan’s warning of Tehran against undermining Syria’s stability. Fidan last week gave an interview to Qatar’s al Jazeera in which he said Iran’s foreign policy relying on militias was “dangerous” and needed to change. “If you …
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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – As Pope Francis has battled double pneumonia in hospital for nearly three weeks, talk of the 88-year-old pontiff’s death or resignation has become almost commonplace. Some newspapers have published articles informing their readers about what to expect during the papal funeral. A few senior Catholic cardinals are talking …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Tuesday hit back against the United States with retaliatory tariffs and placed export and investment restrictions on 25 U.S. firms on national security grounds, though it refrained from punishing big U.S. household names. Here are four new names targeted by China: LEIDOS HOLDINGS Headquartered in Virginia, Leidos develops hypersonic weapons. …
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By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) – The frequency of cable incidents in the Baltic Sea has been “exceptional” in recent years, but state actors have more effective ways of performing underwater sabotage than by dragging anchors, Finland’s intelligence service chief said. The Baltic Sea region is on high alert after a string of power cable, …
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HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s security and intelligence service Supo is closely watching how U.S. intelligence positions itself towards Russia under the Trump administration, Supo’s chief said on Tuesday. Supo on Tuesday published a national security review in which it named Russia as the biggest threat to Finland, which shares a 1,340-km (833-mile) border with Russia …
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