KYIV (Reuters) – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell sought to reassure Ukraine of Europe’s unwavering support on Saturday, days after Donald Trump’s election win cast uncertainty over its war effort. Borrell, the first top EU official to visit Kyiv since Trump’s win, said that the purpose of his visit was to stress EU support …
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By Stephanie van den Berg and Anthony Deutsch (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court’s governing body will launch an external investigation into its chief prosecutor Karim Khan over alleged sexual misconduct, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday. Khan is called on in an internal document circulated to member states to temporarily step …
By Andrew Mills and Nidal al-Mughrabi DOHA/CAIRO (Reuters) -Qatar has told Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel it will stall its efforts to mediate a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal until they show “willingness and seriousness” to resume talks, its foreign ministry said on Saturday. The Gulf country has been working alongside the United …
(Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a treaty on the country’s strategic partnership with North Korea which includes a mutual defence provision, according to a decree published on Saturday. The accord, signed by Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in June after a summit in Pyongyang, calls on each side to …
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WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s presidential transition effort said on Saturday that a Republican operative who outlined some potential contours of a U.S.-backed peace plan in Ukraine earlier in the day was not speaking on behalf of the president-elect. Bryan Lanza, a long-time Republican strategist who was a contractor on Trump’s 2024 campaign, …
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Hatem Khaled CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -A Gaza family sat weeping on Saturday over children killed by an Israeli strike as they were getting ready to play soccer, amid an intensified bombardment that Palestinian health authorities said has killed 44 people over the past 24 hours. The strike was in Mawasi, a southern …
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By Charlotte Van Campenhout and Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof will miss the COP29 climate summit after clashes in Amsterdam this week between Israeli soccer fans and pro-Palestinian protesters as his government investigates if warning signs from Israel were missed. “I will not be going to Azerbaijan next week for …
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(This Nov. 8 story has been refiled to add a dropped word in paragraph 9) By Anthony Deutsch and Bart H. Meijer AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Amsterdam banned demonstrations for three days from Friday after overnight attacks on Israeli soccer supporters by what the mayor called “antisemitic hit-and-run squads”, and Israel sent planes to the Netherlands …
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(This story has been refiled to fix a typo in paragraph 1) PAIPORTA, Spain (Reuters) – The water was already knee-high on the ground floor of the hotel where Aitana Puchal had taken refuge when she received a text alert from the regional government of Valencia at 8 pm on Oct. 29 warning people to …
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By Alexandros Avramidis THERMAIC GULF, Greece (Reuters) – When Anastasios Zakalkas pulled up the ropes of his mussel farm in the Aegean Sea last month, the devastation was clear: the lines were not heaving with molluscs as they should be at harvest time but were instead filled with cracked, empty shells. It is the second …
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