MOSCOW (Reuters) – Yuri Ushakov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy adviser, said on Monday that Moscow and Washington had yet to agree on how to embark on Ukraine peace talks as the U.S. had not yet appointed a chief negotiator to talk to Russia. Ushakov, along with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, is due to …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain poured cold water on Monday on a British proposal to send peacekeepers to Ukraine and said negotiations to end the three-year war should not end up rewarding Russian aggression. “It is too early at this time to speak about deploying troops to Ukraine as there is no peace at the moment,” …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov visited Saudi Arabia on Sunday ahead talks between Russia and the United States in the Kingdom scheduled for next week. Siluanov was speaking at an event called AlUla Conference for Emerging Market Economies, organised by the Saudi Ministry of Finance and the International Monetary Fund. U.S. and …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – A drone strike has hit a pumping station on a oil pipeline in Russia, reducing flows from Kazakhstan to world markets pumped by Western firms including Chevron and Exxon Mobil, its operator said on Monday. The strike comes a day before U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to meet Russian …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany will hold a snap national election on Feb. 23 following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-way coalition. Here are the main parties contending, their poll standings, and the key policy issues: PARTIES Germany has two centrist, “big-tent” parties: Scholz’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and the opposition conservatives, an alliance of the …
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By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s prime minister on Monday vowed to push ahead with a plan to deport irregular migrants to camps built in Albania, which has been stalled by national judges, saying the government had a popular mandate to curb arrivals. Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government has built two facilities in the Balkan …
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By Maya Gebeily and Maayan Lubell BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel will keep troops in several posts in southern Lebanon past a February 18 deadline for them to withdraw, a military spokesperson said on Monday, as Israeli leaders sought to reassure northern residents that they can return home safely. Under a truce deal brokered by Washington …
By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s populist political parties look set to win enough seats to potentially gum up the workings of parliament – even if they don’t form part of the next administration. HOW POPULAR ARE THEY EXACTLY? The far-right Alternative for Germany is running second to the conservatives in polls ahead of …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland will not send troops to Ukraine, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday, as he set off for an emergency summit in Paris to discuss Europe’s role in any ceasefire. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer earlier became the first European leader to say he was ready to put peacekeeping troops in …
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By Tala Ramadan DUBAI (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he had discussed bringing back Ukrainians from Russian captivity with UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at a meeting in Abu Dhabi on Monday. “The UAE’s mediation has saved many lives,” Zelenskiy wrote on X. “We are grateful for this crucial cooperation …
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