MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Ukraine would not be excluded from negotiations to end the war, but success would depend on raising the level of trust between Moscow and Washington. Putin, speaking a day after Russia and the United States held their first talks on how to end the three-year …
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By Firas Makdesi and Kinda Makieh DAMASCUS (Reuters) – For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria’s capital Damascus, carefully passing their thumbs over the handwritten text as if still in awe they were back home. …
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By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – Donald Trump has helped upend this year’s Canadian election, transforming what looked like an easy win for the official opposition Conservatives into a tighter race that could even end in deadlock. The right-leaning Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, had enjoyed a double-digit lead for 18 months over the Liberals …
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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia in hospital, is in a stable condition and has shown “slight improvement” in results from recent blood tests, the Vatican said on Wednesday. The 88-year-old pontiff is undergoing treatment at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, where he was admitted on February 14 after struggling with breathing …
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(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte discussed the importance of security guarantees for Kyiv in any discussion of a settlement of the nearly three-year-old war against Russia. Writing on X, Zelenskiy said he and Rutte examined contacts with Ukraine’s partners and “coordinated our next steps”. …
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KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday rejected U.S. demands for $500 billion in mineral wealth from Ukraine to repay Washington for wartime aid, saying the United States had supplied nowhere near that sum so far and offered no specific security guarantees in the agreement. The Ukrainian leader, who is under major pressure from …
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By Stine Jacobsen and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark will increase its military budget by a combined 50 billion crowns ($6.99 billion) this year and next to address acute shortcomings, most notably in surface-to-air missile defence systems, the prime minister said on Wednesday. After decades of drastic cuts in defence spending, Denmark last year …
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By Lili Bayer BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union is set to suspend Syria sanctions related to energy, transport and reconstruction, according to a draft declaration seen by Reuters. EU foreign ministers are expected to discuss Syria at a meeting in Brussels on February 24. The EU has a range of sanctions in place against …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Syzran oil refinery, operated by Russia’s oil giant Rosneft, suspended oil processing on Wednesday due to a fire at the primary unit (CDU-6) following an attack by a Ukrainian drone, two industry sources told Reuters. The governor of Russia’s Samara region, where the Syzran refinery with 150,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) capacity is located, …
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By Kuba Stezycki, Janis Laizans and Alan Charlish WARSAW/RIGA (Reuters) – Polish call centre worker Katarzyna Paprota, 48, says the dramatic shift in United States policy towards Russia and Ukraine under President Donald Trump gives her reason to fear for the future. “The foreign policy of the United States scares me a lot,” she told …
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