MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in remarks published on Friday that he saw no objective signs that Ukraine or the West were ready for peace talks despite all their increasingly loud statements about the need for such talks. “Despite the increasingly loud talk about the need for peace talks, there are …
(This Jan. 23 story has been corrected to say Sunday deadline, not Monday, in paragraph 1 and 2) JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Israel said on Thursday the terms of a ceasefire with Hezbollah were not being implemented fast enough and there was more work to do, while the Iran-backed group urged pressure to ensure Israeli troops …
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VALLETTA (Reuters) – A Maltese court on Friday granted bail to a prominent businessman who is charged with complicity in the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017. Yorgen Fenech, who has been under arrest since November 2019, hugged members of his family in court after the judge’s decision. He has been undergoing …
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic retired injured after losing the opening set of his clash with Alexander Zverev on Friday, sending the German to a first Australian Open final where he will take on defending champion Jannik Sinner for a maiden Grand Slam title. Sinner later overcame cramp to book an intriguing battle for the …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek authorities have found makeshift bombs, explosives, hand grenades and thousands of bullets during a raid on a warehouse on the southern island of Crete, police said on Friday, the second such operation this week. The explosive devices were ready for use, police said in a statement, adding that one person had …
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By Krisztina Than and Julia Payne BUDAPEST/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Hungary wants the European Union to persuade Ukraine to resume gas transit from Russia to Europe, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, signalling a tough debate as the EU seeks to extend its sanctions against Russia over the coming week. Hungary has not yet decided …
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By Divya Chowdhury and Lisa Pauline Mattackal (Reuters) – Business leaders in Davos joined calls by U.S. President Donald Trump for the European Union to speed up efforts to reduce regulation and increase competition to prevent the bloc from falling further behind other developed markets. Trump told the world’s business elite at the World Economic …
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By Philip Blenkinsop, Kate Abnett and Michel Rose BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) -AI, biotech and affordable clean energy will be the focus of an EU drive to make the bloc globally competitive and ensure it keeps pace with rivals the United States and China, according to a draft European Commission paper seen by Reuters. The European Union …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Against a darkened TV sound stage, a woman testifies before judges on a bare black platform about how her boss at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, Boger, killed a newly arrived boy. “The boy stood there with his apple. Boger went to the child and picked him up by the feet and …
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BELGRADE (Reuters) – Many schools, bookstores, theatres and bars in Serbia’s capital Belgrade and some other parts stayed shut on Friday in the latest anti-government protest triggered by a railway station roof collapse that killed 15 people in November. Demonstrators say corruption, nepotism and shoddy construction work were behind the disaster and want swifter judicial …
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