By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency has begun the process of doling out contracts for President Donald Trump’s marquee Golden Dome missile defense shield, according to a solicitation notice posted on Wednesday. Golden Dome’s ambitions mirror those of Israel’s Iron Dome – a homeland missile defense shield – but a larger, …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jana Choukeir (Reuters) – An Israeli attack that targeted Hamas leaders in Qatar this week was an attempt to derail the ceasefire negotiations but would not change the Palestinian group’s terms for ending the war in Gaza, a Hamas official said on Thursday. Israel attempted to kill the political leaders of …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Thursday he believes the United States will sort out a trade deal with India as soon as that country stops buying Russian oil. Asked on CNBC what trade issue he was most focused on, Lutnick mentioned India and said: “Well, we’re going to sort out India,” …
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By Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s army needs to add 100,000 active troops to its existing 62,000 to meet new NATO targets intended to boost preparedness for the growing threat of Russian aggression, its commander says in a confidential paper seen by Reuters on Thursday. “It is imperative for the army to become sufficiently ready …
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Peter Mandelson, one of most formidable and prominent figures in British politics for 30 years, twice bouncing back from scandals that forced him from government, was finally brought down by his close connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Hired to be Britain’s top diplomat in Washington less than …
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By Andrew Mills, Rachna Uppal and Yousef Saba DOHA (Reuters) – Israel’s strikes targeting Hamas in Doha, hot on the heels of an Iranian hit on a U.S. base in the Gulf nation in June, could shake Qatar’s image as a stable business hub as it seeks to balance commercial goals with global diplomatic ambitions. …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Kyiv’s allies on Thursday to rethink their own air defence capabilities after incursions into Polish airspace by drones that Warsaw said were Russian. Speaking in Kyiv beside visiting Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Zelenskiy said Ukraine was “open and ready” to provide support for its allies’ efforts. Ukraine has …
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By Gopal Sharma, Aftab Ahmed and Sarita Chaganti Singh KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s “Gen Z” protesters backed the country’s first female chief justice to temporarily lead the troubled nation and called for parliament to be dissolved on Thursday, two days after deadly demonstrations forced the prime minister to quit. Sushila Karki, 73, who was the …
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By Luis Jaime Acosta EL PLATEADO/SAN JUAN DE MICAY, Colombia (Reuters) -The dilapidated, tin-roofed schoolhouse sits perched amid fields of coca, the base ingredient in cocaine, in the small southwestern Colombian town of San Juan de Micay. Reached by an unpaved road that meanders through treacherous mountain passes, the town is located in the Canon …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Thursday dismissed statements by Warsaw and other European countries about the shooting down of Russian drones over NATO member state Poland as nothing new and said that Moscow would be making no further comment on the situation. Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania in a joint statement on Thursday condemned Russia over …
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