(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the latest in a series of meetings with Kyiv’s Western allies in Germany had resulted in pledges of an additional $2 billion in military assistance to help it fight the war against Russia. Zelenskiy, speaking to My-Ukraina television channel after Thursday’s meeting, gave few details of the assistance, …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -U.S. and Arab mediators have made some progress in their efforts to reach a ceasefire accord between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, but not enough to seal a deal, Palestinian sources close to the talks said on Thursday. As talks continued in Qatar, the Israeli military carried out strikes across …
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By Sarah Marsh, Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) – Elon Musk urged Germans to vote for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in an upcoming national election during a broadcast he hosted with the party’s leader on his social media platform on Thursday. Musk last year used X and his vast wealth to help Republican candidate …
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(Reuters) – Four people were killed on Thursday in instances of shelling in Ukraine, one blamed on Russia’s military, the other on Ukrainian forces, regional officials said. In Donetsk region, the focal point of Russia’s slow advance westward along the front line, regional governor Vadym Filaskhin said on Telegram that two people were killed when …
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By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen, Louise Rasmussen and Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark acknowledged on Thursday it had long neglected the defence of Greenland, a vast and strategically important Arctic island, after President-elect Donald Trump said acquiring the Danish sovereign territory was vital for U.S. security. Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, said this week that …
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(Reuters) – Moldovan President Maia Sandu visited areas hit by rolling power cuts on Thursday and blamed Russian gas giant Gazprom for the energy crisis gripping the country’s Transdniestria pro-Russian separatist enclave. In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moldova and Ukraine were responsible for the heating and power shortages. The foreign minister of Finland …
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(This Jan. 8 story has been corrected to say ‘she,’ not ‘he,’ in bullet point 1) By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – Talks are taking place on whether U.S. and French troops could secure a border zone in northern Syria as part of efforts to defuse conflict between Turkey and Western-backed Kurdish Syrian forces, a …
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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) – Talks to form a coalition government led by Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO) will begin on Friday, the party said on Thursday, as thousands protested in Vienna against the prospect of the country’s first FPO-led government. The eurosceptic, Russia-friendly FPO won September’s parliamentary election with around 29% of the …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. president, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Thursday an allies’ group aimed at speeding arms to Ukraine was best kept under U.S. leadership but would adapt if Washington changes its involvement. “And if those in the United States now decide not to maintain this …
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NICOSIA (Reuters) – Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides held meetings with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed on Thursday, the Cypriot presidency said, discussing with each how to reinforce regional security. A Cypriot government source said Christodoulides met separately with the two officials. It was not immediately clear if there was …
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