By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s “common sense” aim to end the war in Ukraine, but accused the European powers which have rallied around Kyiv of seeking to prolong the conflict. Lavrov said the United States still wanted to be the world’s most powerful …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine said on Sunday it condemned a “breach of territorial sovereignty” by employees of the U.N. nuclear watchdog who visited the Russia-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine via Russian-occupied territory. In an emailed statement, Ukraine’s foreign ministry blamed “Russian blackmail and systematic attempts to impose upon international organisations illegal and contradictory …
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By Andrew MacAskill and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday dismissed calls to cancel the offer of a state visit to U.S. President Donald Trump after his extraordinary row with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the White House. Starmer at a meeting in Washington last week used a mixture …
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OSLO (Reuters) – NATO member Norway will continue to supply fuel for U.S. Navy ships, the country’s defence minister said on Sunday, after a call from a private marine fuel supplier to stop doing so in response to the apparent breakdown in U.S.-Ukrainian relations. “We have seen reports raising concerns about support for U.S. Navy …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday he was convinced Donald Trump wanted to see a lasting peace in Ukraine despite an ugly row between the U.S. leader and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday. Speaking on BBC television, Starmer said he was uncomfortable watching the meeting between Trump and Zelenskiy, …
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By Samia Nakhoul and Timour Azhari LATAKIA, Syria (Reuters) – For years, soldiers from Russia’s Hmeimim Air Base in Syria roamed freely through coastal cities. War planes flew from the complex to bombard Islamist rebels fighting Bashar al-Assad’s repressive regime. No longer. With Assad gone, at both Hmeimim and at Russia’s Soviet-era Tartous Naval Base …
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(This Feb. 28 story has been corrected to say 33, not 44, Israeli hostages in paragraph 2) CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli delegation in Cairo is negotiating to extend the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire when it expires on Saturday rather than move to the second phase as originally planned and as Hamas wants, …
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By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered a new trade investigation that could heap more tariffs on imported lumber, adding to existing duties on Canadian softwood lumber and 25% tariffs on all Canadian and Mexican goods due next week. In his third new tariff probe in a …
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By Ivana Sekularac NIS, Serbia (Reuters) – Thousands stood in silence for 15 minutes in the southern city of Nis on Saturday to commemorate those killed in a railway station disaster, in a student-led protest that has grown into the biggest threat yet to the Serbian president’s grip on power. In the four months since …
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(Reuters) -A new monitoring mission from the U.N. nuclear watchdog arrived on Saturday at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine for the first time through Russian territory, a Russia-installed head of the plant said. The IAEA rotation came after weeks of delay caused by military activity around the site with each side blaming …
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