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Russian suspected of sabotage against Poland, US, deported from Bosnia, Tusk says

14 Feb 2025 14 Feb 2025

WARSAW (Reuters) -A Russian citizen suspected of coordinating acts of sabotage against Poland, the United States and other allies was deported to Poland from Bosnia and Herzegovina and arrested by a court order, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on X on Friday. Last month, a court in Bosnia and Herzegovina reviewed a Polish request …

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Gaza militant groups name three hostages to be released on Saturday

14 Feb 2025 14 Feb 2025

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and James Mackenzie CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian militant groups in Gaza said they would release hostages Iair Horn, U.S.-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen and Russian-Israeli Alexandre Sasha Troufanov on Saturday, in accordance with the terms of the ceasefire with Israel. All three men were seized in Kibbutz Nir Oz, one of the communities around …

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EU’s Kallas: listening to Vance speech felt like United States was trying to pick fight with us

14 Feb 2025 14 Feb 2025

MUNICH (Reuters) – The European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Friday that a speech by U.S. Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security conference felt as if the United States was ‘trying to pick a fight’ with Europe. “Listening to that speech, they try to pick a fight with us and …

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Russia calls Zelenskiy accusation over Chornobyl plant stage-managed ‘nuclear blackmail’

14 Feb 2025 14 Feb 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Friday that an accusation from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that a Russian drone had struck the Chornobyl nuclear power plant was a staged “provocation” by Kyiv to blackmail the West into giving it more aid. Zelenskiy said on Friday that a Russian drone had caused significant damage to the …

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Factbox-Key facts on the Chornobyl Nuclear Plant

14 Feb 2025 14 Feb 2025

KYIV (Reuters) – The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where Ukraine accused Russia of striking a radiation containment structure on Friday, is a defunct facility in Ukraine which was the site of the world’s worst civil nuclear catastrophe in April 1986. Below are some facts about the plant and the accident: The explosion at reactor four …

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New traces of tear gas found on Ukraine battlefield by chemical weapons watchdog

14 Feb 2025 14 Feb 2025

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The world’s chemical weapons watchdog on Friday said it had once again found traces of tear gas on the frontline with Russia in Ukraine’s central-east Dnipropetrovsk region. The use of riot control agents such as tear gas as a method of warfare is prohibited under the Chemical Weapons Convention, the non-proliferation treaty …

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German minister: comparing Germany with authoritarian regime is unacceptable

14 Feb 2025 14 Feb 2025

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s defence minister on Friday rebuffed criticism by U.S. Vice President JD Vance of German and European political powers as unacceptable, weighing in on a debate over anti-immigrant groups’ bid for influence in the region. “This democracy was just called into question by the U.S. Vice President, not just the German democracy …

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Brussels to exempt defence spending from EU budget constraints

14 Feb 2025 14 Feb 2025

By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission will propose exempting defence from EU limits on government spending, the head of the EU executive, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Friday, amid pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump for Europe to finance its own defence. The U.S. wants European members of NATO to more …

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Three Moldovans arrested for links with Wagner Group, Europol says

14 Feb 2025 14 Feb 2025

PARIS (Reuters) – Three Moldovan nationals have been arrested in Moldova for links to the Russian Wagner Group, pan-European police agency Europol said on Friday. Moldavan authorities on February 12 and 13 raided over 50 locations connected to suspected members of the paramilitary group associated with war crimes against Ukrainians, Europol said in a statement. …

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Breakaway Moldovan region says it received gas supplies backed by Russian loan

14 Feb 2025 14 Feb 2025

KYIV (Reuters) – Moldova’s pro-Russian breakaway Transdniestria region started receiving gas supplies under a loan provided by Moscow, separatist authorities said on Friday. Transdniestrian leader Vadim Krasnoselsky said in a statement on Telegram that gas deliveries were possible due to Russian loan assistance and cooperation with Russia’s Ministry of Energy. Russian gas flows to Transdniestria …

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