VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia, remains in a critical condition and his prognosis is still guarded because of the “complexity” of his clinical condition, the Vatican said on Sunday. The pope was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on February 14 after having trouble breathing for several days and subsequently had pneumonia …
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By Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian CSU sister party won the election on Sunday and are likely to lead the next coalition government. Below is a summary of their key policy positions, according to their election campaign programme: ECONOMY The CDU wants to cut red tape, …
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(Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin on Sunday appointed Kirill Dmitriev, the chief of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, as a special envoy on international economic and investment cooperation. A presidential decree announcing the appointment of Dmitriev, considered the most U.S.-savvy member of Russia’s elite, comes after the highest-level U.S.-Russia talks since Russia sent its forces into Ukraine …
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By Max Hunder, Anastasiia Malenko and Yuliia Dysa KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he was willing to give up his position if it meant peace in Ukraine, adding that he could exchange his departure for his country’s entry into the NATO military alliance. “If (it means) peace for Ukraine, if you …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Hamas on Sunday condemned Israel’s decision to postpone the release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, saying its claim that the hostages’ handover ceremonies are “humiliating” was false and a pretext to evade Israel’s obligations under the Gaza ceasefire agreement. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Netanyahu’s decision reflects a deliberate attempt to disrupt the …
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday they expected that an agreement would be signed this week on U.S. access to Ukraine’s critical mineral deposits. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wavered “in his commitment towards that a week ago,” Witkoff said in …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Ukraine can keep fighting Russia for the rest of the year with European support, Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Sunday. “Ukraine can fight on its own with our European support for the rest of this year, and I think Putin has to take this into account,” Sikorski told CNN in …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian and U.S. teams plan to meet this week to discuss improving relations after the war in Ukraine had pushed ties to the worst level since the depths of the Cold War, a senior Russian start diplomat said on Sunday. With Russian forces having advanced last year at the fastest rate in …
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish police have smashed a human trafficking ring that lured more than 1,000 women to the country over the past year with false job offers before forcing them into sex work, police said on Sunday. The women, who were mainly from Venezuela and Colombia, were told they would be working in the …
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By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Estonia has launched a new push to get fellow EU members to agree to seize frozen Russian assets and use them to help Ukraine, dismissing a Russian idea on how the money could be used as part of a peace deal. The Baltic country has sent a discussion paper …
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