By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United States wants the U.N. Security Council to vote on a brief draft resolution marking the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Monday before the 193-member General Assembly is due to meet on the conflict, diplomats said on Saturday. The U.S. move at the U.N. pits …
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis “is more unwell than yesterday”, the Vatican said in a statement on Saturday, adding that he had suffered a “prolonged asthma-like respiratory crisis” earlier in the day. The Vatican statement said the pope, who is being treated in hospital for double pneumonia, was alert, but added that the prognosis …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday a knife attack that killed one and injured three in eastern France on Saturday was “Islamist terrorism”, after France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office confirmed it was investigating the case. A man attacked local police officers in the city of Mulhouse shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest”) …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Iran on Tuesday to discuss Syrian developments with his Iranian counterpart, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday. Russia and Iran were the main allies of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. (Reporting by Jana Choukeir and Hatem Maher; Editing by Sharon Singleton)
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland said on Saturday it has been paying for Ukraine’s Starlink subscription and will continue to do so despite sources saying the United States could consider cutting Ukraine’s access to the satellite internet system. U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine’s critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country’s …
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PISKY, Russian-controlled Ukraine (Reuters) – In a ruined Soviet-era apartment block in Pisky, near the east Ukrainian city of Donetsk, huge chunks of roof and walls lie scattered about the floor where Maria Seryogova once played with her baby grandson. Seryogova and others who once lived here hope they can claim some kind of compensation …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Mohamed Amra, a French fugitive known as “The Fly”, who was freed by gunmen in a brazen attack against a prison van in May, was arrested in Romania on Saturday, the French interior minister said. French police had launched a massive manhunt for the fugitive, whose escape resulted in the deaths of …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced an income tax exemption for mothers of two or three children and said he would cap interest rates on housing loans at 5% from April as part of moves to shore up the economy ahead of a 2026 national election. In power since 2010, the veteran …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Among the six hostages freed by Hamas on Saturday in return for Palestinian prisoners were an Israeli Bedouin and an Ethiopian-born man who had been in Gaza for years before the October 7, 2023 attack, having wandered into the enclave a decade ago. Civilians Hisham al-Sayed, 36, and Avera Mengistu, 39, both …
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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -The three biggest centrist parties in Austria’s parliament on signalled on Saturday they were close to agreeing on a coalition government, almost five months after an election won by the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), which is now sidelined. A deal between the conservative People’s Party (OVP), Social Democrats (SPO) and …
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