By Vitalii Hnidyi and Valentyn Ogirenko DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) – Peace talks this week between Russia and the U.S. aimed at ending three years of war in Ukraine have not impressed front-line Ukrainian troops, who see no quick end to the fighting if Kyiv is left out of negotiations. Clutching an assault rifle, an …
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By Miranda Murray BERLIN (Reuters) – Forty years after the release of French director Claude Lanzmann’s seminal work “Shoah”, a new documentary at the Berlin Film Festival aims to make the nine-hour-plus opus about the Holocaust relevant for a new generation. “All I Had Was Nothingness,” by director Guillaume Ribot, wades through hundreds of hours …
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By Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s mainstream political parties lost support while the far-right AfD gained ground in one of the last polls published before the election on Sunday, pointing to likely tricky coalition building that could drag on for months. The vote comes at an awkward moment, leaving a leadership …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A Liberia-flagged cargo ship carrying corn from a Russian port to Turkey is trying to stop water leaking in after sustaining a crack in the Sea of Azov earlier this week, Russia’s port agency said. The vessel, Pavel Grabovskiy, was loaded with 2,939 tons of corn. It was sailing to Turkey from …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – An 18-year-old ethnic Chechen has been arrested on suspicion of planning an attack on the Israeli Embassy in Berlin, German newspaper Bild reported on Friday. German police confirmed the Russian national was detained on Thursday and placed in investigative custody on Friday, and that he was under investigation for planning an attack. …
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By Friederike Heine and Hakan Ersen BERLIN (Reuters) – Elon Musk-owned X has secured a German court motion to remove a judge overseeing a legal battle between the social media giant and two activist groups over sharing election data, a court document seen by Reuters on Friday showed. Earlier this month, a regional court in …
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By Maha El Dahan, Ahmed Rasheed and Nerijus Adomaitis DUBAI (Reuters) – Flows of crude oil through a pipeline from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq to Turkey could restart soon after an almost two-year shutdown. Sources told Reuters that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is piling pressure on Iraq to allow Kurdish oil …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s interior ministry on Friday warned of a Russian disinformation operation attempting to influence the country’s federal election campaign with fake videos spreading on social media in Hamburg and Leipzig. The ministry said there were indications that the campaign was linked to the so-called “Storm-1516,” a pro-Russian influence operation previously observed in …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish and Finnish police are investigating a suspected case of sabotage of an undersea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, and Sweden’s coast guard has deployed a vessel to the area where multiple seabed cables have been damaged in recent months. The Baltic Sea region is on alert and the NATO alliance …
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HELSINKI (Reuters) -The European Commission will redirect almost a billion euros within its budget to boost surveillance of undersea cables and establish a fleet of emergency repair vessels, the Commission’s executive vice president said on Friday. There is concern among European governments about a series of recent incidents in which power cables, telecom links and …
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