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Russia confirms it has detained a U.S. citizen suspected of drug offences, Ifax reports

14 Feb 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Customs Service confirmed on Friday that a 28-year-old U.S. citizen had been detained after customs officials found cannabis-laced marmalade in his luggage, the Interfax news agency reported. Interfax reported that Russian police had initiated criminal proceedings against the individual for “smuggling of drugs in a significant amount”. Mash, a Telegram …

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UK, US agree Zelenskiy must be part of Ukraine peace talks, says UK’s Lammy

14 Feb 2025

MUNICH (Reuters) – British foreign minister David Lammy on Friday said he and U.S. Vice President JD Vance agreed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy must be part of any peace talks to end the war with Russia. “I was very encouraged in our conversations about Ukraine,” Lammy said, speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of the …

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Saudi Arabia welcomes idea of U.S. and Russian presidents meeting in kingdom

14 Feb 2025

By Tala Ramadan DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia said on Friday it commended the phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin and it welcomed the idea of them meeting in the kingdom. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it could take several months to arrange a meeting between Putin and Trump, …

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German president: accept that U.S. won’t heed international rules

14 Feb 2025

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the international community will have to deal with a disregard by the new U.S. administration for established diplomatic rules. “The new American administration has a very different world view to ours, one that has no regard for established rules, partnership and grown trust,” said the German head …

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Germany’s Left party stages late poll surge with fiery call to the ‘barricades’

14 Feb 2025

By Leon Kuegeler BERLIN (Reuters) – The successor to East Germany’s Communist Party has made a late surge two weeks before a national election after its leader stood up in parliament to lash the front-running conservatives for breaking a historic taboo on cooperating with the far right. Many legislators were numb after the conservatives passed …

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Trump’s apparent concessions on Ukraine NATO ties, territory ‘a mistake’, German defence minister says

14 Feb 2025

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s defence minister said it was a mistake for U.S. President Donald Trump to take the bargaining chips of Ukrainian NATO membership and territorial concessions off the table ahead of possible talks to end Russia’s war with Ukraine. Speaking on his arrival at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, Boris Pistorius said …

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Russian court says it extended pre-trial detention of US citizen Joseph Tater by one month

14 Feb 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court said on Friday it had extended the pre-trial detention of U.S. citizen Joseph Tater by one month. Tater was detained in August last year and accused of abusing staff at a Moscow hotel, something he denied. He faces up to five years in prison if convicted. (Reporting by Reuters. …

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Two Russians jailed in Poland for espionage and Wagner membership

14 Feb 2025

WARSAW (Reuters) – Two Russian citizens were jailed for 5-1/2 years in Poland on Friday for membership of the Russian Wagner Group militia and conducting espionage for Moscow. Poland and other NATO countries have all been experiencing increased sabotage, subversion and other “hybrid warfare” activity by Moscow since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years …

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Syria receives local currency printed in Russia before Assad’s fall

14 Feb 2025

DUBAI (Reuters) -Syria’s central bank said a batch of Syrian currency had arrived at Damascus airport from Russia, where banknotes were printed under the rule of toppled President Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported on Friday. The central bank did not specify the amount of currency that had arrived but a source with …

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Kremlin says G7 has lost a lot of relevance after Trump calls for Russia to be readmitted

14 Feb 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Friday that the Group of Seven nations no longer united the world’s fastest growing economies and had therefore lost much of its relevance after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would love to have Russia return to the group. “I’d love to have them back. I think it …

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