MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday discussed ending the war in Ukraine, agreed to meet in the future and Putin invited Trump to Moscow, the Kremlin said. Putin last spoke to a sitting U.S. president in February 2022 when he had a call with Joe Biden shortly …
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By Thomas Peter and Vladyslav Smilianets ZAVALLIA, Ukraine (Reuters) – At the 90-year-old Zavallivsky Graphite Mine in central Ukraine, CEO Ostap Kostyuk dreams of making graphite pure enough to use for lithium batteries, something he compares to trying to “make a Rolls-Royce inside a garage”, given the lack of investment. As U.S. President Donald Trump …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission said on Wednesday it is taking France to the EU Court of Justice after the country ignored repeated warnings over failing to ban bird hunting with nets. It said France still authorises the use of horizontal and vertical nets to catch certain bird species in five departments in Southwest France, …
ROME (Reuters) – Italy denied on Wednesday that Israeli spyware maker Paragon had cut ties with Rome following allegations that the Italian government had illegally used its technology to hack the phones of critics instead of criminals. “Paragon has never suspended the service and has not terminated its contract,” the cabinet undersecretary for intelligence matters, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Syria’s interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, the first direct communication between the two since Sharaa’s forces overthrew Moscow’s ally Bashar al-Assad in December. Russia is hoping to retain the use of naval and air bases in Syria under the leadership …
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KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine would need the U.S. to help it build up an army as big as that of Russia to serve as a “Plan B” if his country is not admitted into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Kyiv, which has been locked in all-out war with invading Russian forces …
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By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -American schoolteacher Marc Fogel, freed by Russia after three and a half years in prison, got a flag-waving welcome from U.S. President Donald Trump at a snowy White House on Tuesday after a flight home from Moscow. “I feel like the luckiest man on earth right now,” …
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By Andrew Osborn and Greg Torode LONDON (Reuters) -Russia has what it needs to fight on in Ukraine for at least another year and retains the battlefield initiative, but is struggling to replace its destroyed tanks, experts at a leading security research organisation said on Wednesday. In what has become a war of attrition now …
By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) – The Swiss government on Wednesday proposed relaxing restrictions on arms exports to try to bolster its domestic industry and security policy, a sensitive move for the neutral country which has blocked the re-export of its weapons and ammunition to Ukraine. The cabinet said it sent a proposal to parliament …
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(Reuters) – The United States will release Russian Alexander Vinnik, a suspected cybercrime kingpin, as part of an exchange with Russia that freed Marc Fogel, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. Vinnik operated BTC-e, once one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. He was arrested in 2017 and detained at Washington’s request on suspicion …
