BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday said drug traffickers have acquired two missiles which they plan to fire at his plane, in order to kill him, citing the success of his efforts to tackle the drug trade. “You know that they want to shoot a missile at my plane, which the drug traffickers …
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By Dmitry Antonov and Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Tuesday demanded NATO scrap its 2008 promise to one day give Ukraine membership of the U.S.-led NATO military alliance and dismissed the idea that NATO member forces could be keepers of the peace under some sort of ceasefire deal. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish border guards discovered over 100 kg of cocaine on the bottom of the Baltic Sea while conducting operations to protect critical infrastructure, the border guard said on Tuesday. Seven people were detained in the case involving drugs which the border guard said could reach a black market value of up to …
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OTTAWA (Reuters) -Pope Francis on Tuesday said he had accepted the resignation of a Canadian bishop who has been named in a class-action lawsuit against the church that alleges sexual assault. The pope did not give a reason for replacing Jean-Pierre Blais, the 75-year-old bishop of Baie-Comeau in the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec, and …
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PARIS (Reuters) -France plans to a host a second meeting to discuss Ukraine and European security on Wednesday, but has this time invited European countries not present earlier this week and NATO ally Canada, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. Two sources said those invited were Norway, Canada, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Finland, …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s president said on Tuesday that U.S. officials had assured him that Washington did not intend to lower troop numbers in eastern Europe, as he gave a statement to reporters after meeting Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg. Old certainties about Washington’s role in ensuring European security have been upended over the …
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(Reuters) -The Russian government released a U.S. citizen detained on charges of possession of a small amount of marijuana ahead of talks between Russian and U.S. officials in Saudi Arabia, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow said. Kalob Byers, 28, had been detained at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport during a baggage check on February …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he had postponed his visit to Saudi Arabia planned for Wednesday and that talks on how to end the war with Russia could not be held behind Ukraine’s back. Ukraine was not represented at the talks between the United States and Russia in Riyadh on …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit against the CIA by journalists and lawyers who said the intelligence agency illegally spied on them when they visited Wikileaks founder Julian Assange while he was holed up at Ecuador’s embassy in London. In a decision made public on Tuesday, U.S. District …
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By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS (Reuters) – A bird flu vaccination campaign launched in France in 2023 has enabled the country’s poultry production to recover to levels not seen since outbreaks of the virus wiped out tens of millions of birds, producers said on Tuesday. Avian influenza (HPAI), or bird flu, is a viral …
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