WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland said it would on November 17 reopen two border crossings with Belarus that it shut in September in response to Russia-led military exercises in the neighbouring country and 21 Russian drones entering Polish airspace. Warsaw had said on October 30 it might delay the reopening of the crossings with Belarus, a close …
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By Catarina Demony and Sam Tabahriti LONDON (Reuters) -The British Broadcasting Corporation sent a personal apology to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday but said there was no legal basis for him to sue the public broadcaster over a documentary his lawyers called defamatory. The documentary, which aired on the BBC’s “Panorama” news programme just …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s FSB security service said on Friday that it had thwarted a Ukrainian plot to assassinate an unnamed top Russian government official and accused Kyiv of planning similar attacks in other parts of the country. The FSB said in a statement that the Ukrainian plot had aimed to kill the official when they …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian air defence forces shot down or intercepted 216 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Defence Ministry said on Friday. The ministry said it had brought down 66 drones over Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, where officials earlier said an oil depot and port had been targeted. The governor of Russia’s Saratov region said that drone …
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(Reuters) -The United States Coast Guard detected a Russian military ship on October 29 approximately 15 miles (24 km) south of Oahu, near U.S. territorial waters, it said on Thursday in a statement. A Coast Guard aircraft and cutter “responded to the Russian Federation Navy Auxiliary General Intelligence ship Kareliya,” the Coast Guard said. “Acting …
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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump will attend the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, next year, according to a White House official. At the annual gathering, business and political leaders discuss pressing global challenges. Trump will attend the forum with a large entourage, Bloomberg News reported earlier, citing people familiar with the plans. …
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By Lucien Libert and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) -France paid an emotional tribute on Thursday to 130 people killed 10 years ago during a rampage by Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers targeting cafes, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. The attacks were the deadliest on French soil since World War Two, scarring the national …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British pro-Palestinian political commentator Sami Hamdi landed back in London on Thursday after being released from the United States, where he spent more than two weeks in immigration detention. Hamdi was detained on October 26 at San Francisco International Airport after U.S. officials revoked his visa during a speaking tour in which he …
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By Tom Balmforth and Max Hunder LONDON/KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited troops near Ukraine’s southeastern front on Thursday, warning of the need to shore up the lines after losing ground in increasingly high-intensity battles far from Russia’s main offensive in the east. Zelenskiy, whose government is reeling from a corruption scandal, said the situation …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s AUKUS submarine fleet base and its vicinity are being quietly connected to three powerful new undersea internet cables planned by Alphabet’s Google and SUBCO, documents viewed by Reuters show. The HMAS Stirling naval base on Australia’s west coast will house four U.S.-commanded Virginia submarines from 2027, placing the U.S. …
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