By Barbara Erling WARSAW (Reuters) -European countries need to invest now in defence because it is not possible to assume that the United States’ presence on the continent will last forever, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday during a visit to Warsaw. Pointing to Poland, which plans to spend 4.7% of GDP on …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Friday it hoped the U.S. would clarify remarks by Vice President JD Vance that Washington had military as well as economic levers with which to press Russia to agree a good peace deal with Ukraine. After Washington faced criticism from some European countries over a call this week …
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By Kristina Cooke, Ted Hesson and Kevin Moffatt ATLANTA/WASHINGTON/AURORA, Colorado (Reuters) – Venezuelan migrant Yessenia and her husband Maikol awoke last week to loud footsteps and knocks in their apartment building in Aurora, Colorado. “Police, open the door. Policia, abra la puerta.” Rumors had swirled for days that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would soon …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – The Nordic and Baltic countries on Friday gave renewed backing to Ukraine’s fight against Russia, promising in a joint statement to further increase their support. “Ukraine must be able to prevail against Russia’s war of aggression, to ensure a just and lasting peace,” the leaders of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, …
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ANKARA (Reuters) – The European Parliament has condemned Turkish legal action against mayors from opposition parties, and called for municipal officials who have been detained in recent weeks to be released, acquitted and reinstated. Authorities have removed mayors and municipal officials from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the pro-Kurdish DEM Party over …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain remains committed to Ukraine being on “an irreversible path to NATO” membership, Prime Minister Keir Starmer told President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday, after the United States made contradictory comments on Ukraine’s future. Zelenskiy and European leaders have been left reeling after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke directly to Russian President Vladimir …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Friday dismissed as a “provocation” accusations by Ukraine that a Russian drone had damaged the containment shelter at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant overnight. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that he did not have precise information on the alleged incident but that Russia does not attack nuclear infrastructure. “The …
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MUNICH (Reuters) – German prosecutors are treating the case of a man who drove a car into a crowd in Munich on Thursday as a murder attempt, the prosecutor’s office and the police said in a joint statement on Friday. At least 36 people were injured, some of them seriously, as a result of the …
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(Reuters) -Arab states are scrambling to develop a realistic plan for Gaza’s future as a counter to U.S. President Donald Trump’s vision of the United States taking over the territory and its Palestinian inhabitants being ejected to Egypt and Jordan. Here are the main Middle East peace initiatives since the Six-Day war in 1967 when …
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FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) – When Svetlana Sarantseva moved to Portugal from Singapore in 2021, she was looking forward to starting a family and working as a nutrition coach on the Azores archipelago. Having left her native Russia 30 years earlier, little did she imagine that sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine war would turn something as …
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