By John Irish and Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he will travel to Washington to try to convince President Donald Trump that his interests were in line with European allies and that showing any weakness to Russia’s Vladimir Putin would make it harder to deal with China and …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was a “legitimate” leader and that, unlike Russian President Vladimir Putin, he had taken office through a free election process. Macron was commenting on U.S. President Donald Trump denunciation of Zelenskiy as a “dictator without elections”. Zelenskiy’s five-year term was …
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis, in hospital for double pneumonia, is improving slightly, has no fever, and his blood analyses are stable, the Vatican said on Thursday. The 88-year-old pontiff is undergoing treatment at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, where he was admitted on February 14 after struggling with breathing difficulties for several days. (Reporting by …
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By Tom Balmforth, Emma Farge and Sabine Siebold LONDON/GENEVA/BERLIN (Reuters) -The U.S. is refusing to co-sponsor a draft U.N. resolution marking three years since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine that backs Ukraine’s territorial integrity and again demands Russia withdraw its troops, three diplomatic sources told Reuters, in a potential stark shift by Ukraine’s most powerful Western …
(Reuters) – U.S. Vice President JD Vance and billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday launched forceful attacks on Romania’s decision to cancel its presidential election in December. Vance said the cancellation meant Romania does not share American values, while Musk labelled the chief judge of the country’s top court a “tyrant”. Their remarks were the latest …
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By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) – A network of more than 700 fake social media accounts has sprung up in the last week of Germany’s election campaign, researchers say, promoting pro-Russian narratives and demonising conservative election frontrunner Friedrich Merz. The bot network, dubbed “Geist” by researchers working with Germany’s Robert Bosch Foundation, carries anti-conservative, anti-war …
(Reuters) – Negotiators sent by Russian President Vladimir Putin to broker an end to the Ukraine war are likely to play hardball in future negotiations with their American counterparts whom they perceive as weak, according to a former Russian diplomat. Putin sent two of his most seasoned representatives – Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and foreign …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called on Thursday for enhanced air policing, stronger Baltic defences and reinforced European Union borders with Russia, citing growing security concerns. “Enough talking, it’s time to act!” Tusk said on X, urging the swift adoption of new fiscal rules to fund improved European defence efforts and calling …
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MILAN (Reuters) – Italian authorities opened a terrorism investigation into explosions last weekend that damaged an oil tanker off northern Italy, in the latest of four such incidents in the Mediterranean and Baltic seas in the past month, the chief prosecutor of the city of Genoa said on Thursday. Two explosions blew a hole below …
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By Dmitry Antonov and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin offered Donald Trump support in his standoff with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, accusing the Ukrainian president of making “inadmissible” remarks about world leaders as a Russian official said he was stunned by how fast the U.S stance had shifted. Trump’s return to the presidency has begun …
