MOSCOW (Reuters) – Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said on Friday that about 450,000 people had signed contracts to serve in the Russian army in 2024 and that the aim was to attract a similar number of people in 2025. Medvedev said in the same post on his official social media account …
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By Marine Strauss (Reuters) – David Balland, a co-founder of French crypto firm Ledger, had his hand mutilated while he and his wife were kidnapped, the Paris prosecutor said, adding that 10 people were being questioned following the freeing of the pair. Balland and his wife were kidnapped early on Tuesday morning from their home …
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By Emma Farge and Jennifer Rigby GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) -The World Health Organization will cut costs and review which health programmes to prioritise after President Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing the U.S. from the WHO, the agency’s chief told staff in an internal memo seen by Reuters. Trump made the move on the first day …
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By Dmitry Antonov and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to hold a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump and Moscow is waiting for word from Washington that it is ready too, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. Trump said on Thursday he wanted to meet Putin as …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Ukraine war is about Russia’s national security and not about oil prices, the Kremlin said on Friday after U.S. Donald Trump called for a cut in the price of oil. Trump on Thursday said he will demand Saudi Arabia and OPEC bring down the cost of oil. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has made clear he wants to restart nuclear arms cuts talks as soon as possible, the Kremlin said on Friday in response to comments by U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump said on Thursday he wanted to work towards cutting nuclear arms, adding that he thought Russia and China …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Funding shortages may affect the U.N.’s ability to maintain aid flows at target levels throughout the Gaza ceasefire deal, a U.N. official told Reuters. Fifteen months of war has left more than 47,000 Palestinians dead and most of Gaza in ruins, with hundreds of thousands of people homeless and …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian security official Sergei Shoigu warned in an interview published on Friday that the risk of an armed clash between nuclear powers was rising. Shoigu, the secretary of President Vladimir Putin’s Security Council, told TASS news agency: “Against the backdrop of increasing conflict and aggravation of geopolitical rivalry in the world, the risks …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The U.S. military’s Typhon launchers which can fire multi-purpose missiles up to thousands of kilometres will stay in the Philippines for the time being, the national security adviser to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Friday. National Security Adviser Eduardo Ano told reporters the launchers will stay on Philippine shores “for now”, …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Russia launched a barrage of drones in an overnight attack on Ukraine on Friday, killing three civilians and damaging residential and commercial buildings, officials said. The interior ministry said that drone debris had killed two men and a woman in the central Kyiv region, and that another person was injured. The attack damaged …
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