CAIRO (Reuters) – Hamas said on Saturday that it rejected Israel’s “formulation” of extending the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza, on the day the first stage of the deal was set to expire. The group’s spokesperson Hazem Qassem also told Al-Araby TV there were no current talks for a second ceasefire phase in …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday it was “very important” that Ukraine’s plight was heard and not forgotten, a day after a heated White House meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump. “It is very important for us that Ukraine is heard and that no one forgets about it, neither during the …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania recovered fragments of an unmanned Russian aircraft near its border with Moldova carrying active explosives which the defence ministry detonated on site, it said on Saturday. The European Union and NATO state, which shares a 650-km (400-mile) border with Ukraine, has had Russian drone fragments fall onto its territory repeatedly over …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s trip to Washington on Friday was a political and diplomatic failure and that he was obsessed with continuing to wage war. Zelenskiy and U.S. President Donald Trump clashed at a White House meeting on Friday, plunging ties between Kyiv and the United States – …
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ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey’s foreign minister will reiterate at Sunday’s meeting of European leaders in London an offer from Ankara to host peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Saturday. NATO-member Turkey hosted initial talks between the sides months after Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, helping secure a deal for …
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OSLO (Reuters) – The Norwegian government will soon ask that parliament increases its financial backing for Ukraine, Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told public broadcaster NRK on Saturday. “I can say today that we will go back to parliament in the near future with a proposal to increase the support,” Stoere told NRK. Norway’s …
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PARIS (Reuters) – At least four people died after cyclone Garance struck the French overseas territory of La Reunion on Friday, bringing wind speeds of up to 155 kph (96 mph), local authorities said on Saturday. “Garance has been downgraded to a strong tropical storm and the red alert has been lifted,” the local prefecture …
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SEOUL (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with a senior North Korean official in Moscow on Thursday, North Korea’s state news agency said on Saturday. Putin met in the Kremlin with Ri Hi Yong, a Politburo member and secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) as well as …
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By Anna Dabrowska and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainians on the streets of Kyiv rallied around President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday after his angry exchange with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House. Zelenskiy openly challenged Trump over his approach toward Russian President Vladimir Putin at the meeting, urging him to “make no compromises …
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By Erin Banco and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The stunning blow-up between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the White House came after weeks of frustration by Trump and his top aides who saw the Ukrainian leader as an obstacle to their goals of quickly ending the war, restoring ties with …
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