By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican’s lead diplomat on Thursday criticised President Donald Trump’s plan for the U.S. to displace Palestinians from Gaza and “take over” the territory, in the second rebuke of a Trump policy by a top Catholic official this week. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, said …
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KYIV (Reuters) – A Russian overnight drone attack damaged port infrastructure in Ukraine’s Odesa region for the second consecutive day, its governor said on Friday. Governor Oleh Kiper said no-one was wounded in the attack on Odesa district, which also damaged an inactive resort site, causing fires. The Ukrainian military said on Friday that Russia …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Two girls have been brought back to Russia from Ukraine thanks to mediation by Qatar after being separated from their mother because of the war, Russian children’s commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova said on Friday. Qatar has also been involved in previous deals to return children to their families in Russia and Ukraine. Lvova-Belova …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Authorities in Russia have detained a U.S. citizen at a Moscow airport on drug smuggling charges, Mash, a Telegram channel which has sources in Russia’s security services reported on Friday. News of the arrest comes days after Moscow freed Marc Fogel, a U.S. schoolteacher who had been jailed for 14 years for …
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By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s Ombudsman has found that the coast guard failed to follow maritime rules in one of the Mediterranean’s worst shipwrecks in 2023, raising the alarm only after the overcrowded migrant boat sank, sources told Reuters on Friday. The conclusions of the inquiry by Greek Ombudsman Andreas Pottakis, which have …
BERLIN (Reuters) – There must be no peace in Ukraine over the heads of Ukrainians and Europeans, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Friday at the start of the Munich Security Conference. “A sham peace – over the heads of Ukrainians and Europeans – would gain nothing,” Baerbock said in a statement. “A sham …
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(Reuters) -Alexander Vinnik, a Russian national convicted of cybercrime and released by U.S. authorities as part of a prisoner swap, arrived in Moscow on Thursday and thanked President Vladimir Putin and others for arranging the exchange, state news agency RIA said. Vinnik, who pleaded guilty in May 2024 to charges of conspiracy to commit money …
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(Reuters) – More than 80 civilians were killed in a late night attack by the armed group CODECO on a cluster of villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this week, UN peacekeeping mission MONUSCO said on Thursday. The new death toll far exceeds a previous estimate of at least 51 people killed, which …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will outline the government’s revenue and policy goals in his first full-year budget on Monday, seeking to extend the country’s recovery from a financial crisis and signal its alignment with a $2.9 billion IMF bailout program. A severe drain in dollar reserves …
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By Joern Poltz, Wolfgang Rattay and Anja Guder MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) -At least 30 people were hurt when a car driven by an Afghan national ploughed into a crowd in Munich on Thursday in what the state premier said was probably an attack, putting security back in focus before next week’s federal election. The suspected …
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