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Rheinmetall signs up to $271 million deal with Germany to support armed forces

19 Feb 2025

(Reuters) – Defence group Rheinmetall has struck a deal with Germany’s armed forces to provide logistical support during troop redeployments both domestically and abroad, it said on Wednesday. The framework agreement with Germany’s Bundeswehr, worth up to 260 million euros ($271 million), is valid for three years and can be extended until the end of …

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Austria investigating campaign donation to Germany’s far-right AfD, report says

19 Feb 2025

BERLIN (Reuters) – Austrian authorities are investigating the flow of money behind a large donation made to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to support its German election campaign, according to a joint investigation by the newspapers Spiegel and Standard. The donation – the party’s largest ever at 2.35 million euros ($2.45 million) – came …

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France says it does not understand why Trump blames Ukraine for war

19 Feb 2025

PARIS (Reuters) – France does not understand why U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was to blame for Russia’s invasion of his country and the resulting war, a French government spokesperson said on Wednesday. “We don’t understand the logic very well,” spokesperson Sophie Primas told reporters, describing “the diverse, varied and …

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Israel-Gaza war fuels record level of anti-Muslim hatred in Britain, monitoring group says

19 Feb 2025

By Catarina Demony LONDON (Reuters) – The number of anti-Muslim incidents in Britain rose to a new high in 2024, according to data compiled by monitoring organisation Tell MAMA, which said the war in Gaza had “super-fuelled” online hate. Tell MAMA said it verified 5,837 anti-Muslim hate cases – a mix of both online and …

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Sweden’s top court rejects Greta Thunberg lawsuit on climate action

19 Feb 2025

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Greta Thunberg and hundreds of other activists cannot proceed with a class action lawsuit that had sought to force the state to take stronger action against climate change. Activists filed a lawsuit in 2022 arguing that the state violates the European Convention on Human Rights …

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Italy arrests drug traffickers who used migrants as couriers, police say

19 Feb 2025

ROME (Reuters) – Twenty-seven people have been arrested in a pan-European raid against two drug trafficking groups, one of which used migrants as couriers, Italy’s Carabinieri police said on Wednesday. The suspects were taken in for drug offences in Italy, Albania and Spain, the Carabinieri said, adding that 20 of them were remanded in custody …

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Russia praises Trump for saying NATO was a major cause of the war in Ukraine

19 Feb 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov lauded U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday for saying that previous U.S. support of Ukraine’s bid to join the NATO military alliance was a major cause of the war in Ukraine. Trump has said that he saw no way that Russia could have allowed Ukraine to join …

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US, Russia forge ahead on peace talks, without Ukraine

19 Feb 2025

By Humeyra Pamuk and Pesha Magid RIYADH (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration said on Tuesday it had agreed to hold more talks with Russia on ending the war in Ukraine after an initial meeting that excluded Kyiv, a departure from Washington’s previous approach that rallied U.S. allies to isolate Russian President Vladimir Putin. As …

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Foreign spies seeking AUKUS secrets, Australia intelligence chief says

19 Feb 2025

By Kirsty Needham Canberra (Reuters) – Australia’s military is being targeted by foreign intelligence over its AUKUS nuclear submarine partnership with the United States and Britain, and faces growing espionage and sabotage threats, Australia’s spy chief said on Wednesday. Warning of a deteriorating national security outlook, director general of security Mike Burgess said the Australian …

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Kazakhstan to contact Ukraine over drone attack on Caspian pipeline, official says

19 Feb 2025

ASTANA (Reuters) – Kazakhstan will seek contact with Ukraine in order to avoid any repeat of this week’s Ukrainian drone strike in southern Russia that hit a pumping station of the main Kazakh oil export pipeline, an official was quoted as saying on Wednesday. The attack on the station belonging to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium …

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