LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said he believed Britain would fight to defend the United States but suggested he could not say the same for the European Union, a factor in his decision not to sign a trade deal with the bloc. Trump told the BBC in an interview published on Tuesday that he …
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By Lili Bayer and Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Several European countries said on Tuesday they were willing to buy U.S. arms for Ukraine under a scheme announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, although arrangements still needed to be worked out. Trump said on Monday that Washington will supply Patriot air defence systems, missiles and other …
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By Guy Faulconbridge, Gleb Stolyarov and Lucy Papachristou MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Tuesday reacted icily to Donald Trump’s warnings to President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine, saying that recent decisions by the U.S. president and the NATO military alliance would be interpreted by Kyiv as a signal to continue the war. Trump, sitting beside NATO …
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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -There has been an increase in killings of and attacks against Palestinians by settlers and security forces in the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday. “Israeli settlers and security forces have intensified their killings, attacks and harassment of Palestinians in …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran said it will hold talks with its main Asian partners, Russia and China, on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit on Tuesday, as Tehran looks for support following a 12-day air war with Israel last month. “We will have bilateral meetings with the Chinese foreign minister, which naturally has its …
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By Nate Raymond and Jack Queen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump secured approval of his first judicial nominee of his second term, as the U.S. Senate confirmed a former law clerk to three members of the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority to a seat on a federal appeals court. The Republican-led Senate voted 46-42 along …
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By MacDonald Dzirutwe LAGOS (Reuters) -Nigeria’s late former President Muhammadu Buhari, who died in a London clinic on Sunday aged 82, will be buried in his northern home state of Katsina on Tuesday, the state governor said. Buhari, a former military ruler after a coup in the 1980s, returned to frontline politics to become the …
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By Sabine Siebold WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Berlin and Washington will take a decision about sending two U.S.-made Patriot air defence systems to Kyiv within days or weeks, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Monday after talks with U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Germany has offered to buy U.S. Patriot units to supply them …
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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A county official in New York on Monday rejected for a second time efforts by Texas to enforce a $100,000 judgment against a New York doctor accused of violating Texas’ ban on abortion by sending abortion pills to the state, further escalating an unprecedented interstate conflict. Acting Ulster County Clerk Taylor …
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By Aditya Kalra and Chandini Monnappa NEW DELHI (Reuters) -A preliminary investigation into the crash of an Air India passenger jet last month that killed 260 people raises additional questions about the incident and the investigation is far from over, Air India’s CEO said in a memo on Monday. The preliminary investigation released by India’s …
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