BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s diplomatic service has proposed boosting the bloc’s military aid for Ukraine, aiming to show continued support for Kyiv as the United States and Russia have begun talks about ending the war. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has repeatedly called on his allies to honour all their promises to supply Ukraine …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Threats made by the far-right, pro-Russian surprise frontrunner in Romania’s now-voided presidential election against the country’s top court were anti-democratic and dangerous, its chief judge said in rare public comments on Wednesday. The Constitutional Court canceled the election in December before a second round of voting, after declassified security documents showed suspicions …
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FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) – Florence’s local government has ordered owners of holiday rental properties to remove self check-in keyboxes by February 25 in a move against over-tourism in the Italian Renaissance city. Rental companies such as Airbnb increasingly use self check-in keyboxes to save time for property owners and holidaymakers, who no longer need to …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested on Wednesday that a Ukrainian drone attack on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) pumping station in southern Russia might have been coordinated with its Western allies. Putin said that he believed Ukraine could not have organised such an attack on its own and was likely provided with …
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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria arrested a 14-year-old on February 10 on suspicion of planning a militant attack on a Vienna train station, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday, calling the suspect an Islamic State supporter who became radicalised online. The announcement follows a knife attack in the southern town of Villach on Saturday, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Pope Francis, the 88-year-old head of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church, is in hospital being treated for double pneumonia following a respiratory infection. WHAT IS DOUBLE PNEUMONIA? Pneumonia is inflammation of the lungs, usually caused by a viral or bacterial infection. The pope has bilateral pneumonia, known informally as double pneumonia, and …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish police have arrested seven crew members of a crammed migrant boat that arrived in the Canary Islands in December from Senegal over the alleged killing of eight passengers, including a toddler, the Civil Guard said on Wednesday. The boat arrived to La Restinga port in the island of El Hierro on …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Keith Kellogg, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy, arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and “listen,” as the war against Russia approaches its three-year mark. Kellogg’s visit comes a day after the United States and Russia met in Riyadh for talks on ending the war, without Ukraine. …
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By Vitalii Hnidyi and Valentyn Ogirenko NOVOPAVLIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Standing beside a bombed-out milling plant in his village, Mykola Havrylov said he felt powerless watching U.S. and Russian officials discussing an end to a three-year-old war that is creeping ever closer to his home in southeastern Ukraine. Fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops is …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Lucy Papachristou MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump could meet this month, although the first face-to-face encounter between a Russian and a U.S. leader since 2021 could take longer to prepare, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. Trump said on Tuesday he would probably meet Putin …
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