PARIS (Reuters) -Five Jewish institutions were sprayed with green paint in Paris overnight and an investigation has been opened, a police source said on Saturday. Police found the paint damage early on Saturday on the Shoah Memorial, which is the Holocaust museum in Paris, three synagogues and a restaurant in the historic Jewish neighbourhood of …
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By Christian Lowe, Dmitry Antonov and Anastasiia Malenko KYIV/MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ukraine resisted U.S. and Russian pressure to commit to attending another round of peace talks on Monday, saying it first needed to see Russian proposals, while a leading U.S. senator warned Moscow it would be “hit hard” by new U.S. sanctions. U.S. President Donald Trump …
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(Corrects to add dropped word ‘president’ in first paragraph) By Greg Torode SINGAPORE (Reuters) -China on Saturday criticised as a “double standard” attempts to link the defence of Ukraine with the need to protect Taiwan from a Chinese invasion – a thinly veiled reference to a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in Singapore on …
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By Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Reuters) -The commander of Kurdish forces that control northeast Syria said on Friday that his group is in direct contact with Turkey and that he would be open to improving ties, including by meeting Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. The public comments represented a significant diplomatic overture by Mazloum Abdi, whose Syrian …
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By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -A top Guatemalan court on Friday sentenced three former paramilitaries each to 40 years in prison after they were found guilty of raping six Indigenous women between 1981 and 1983, the bloodiest period of the Central American nation’s civil war. The trial against the former members of the so-called …
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By Makiko Yamazaki and Nathan Layne (Reuters) -Japan and the U.S. on Friday agreed to hold another round of trade talks ahead of the G7 summit next month, Japan’s top tariff negotiator said, stressing that no deal would be without concessions on all Washington’s tariffs, including on autos. Japan’s Economy Minister Ryosei Akazawa met with …
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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. on Friday said Holtec’s planned restart of the Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan would not harm the environment, a needed step in its plan to become the first such plant to return from permanent shutdown. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission conducted the environmental review of the Palisades reactor …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities is a clear red line and will have severe consequences, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Friday. “If U.S. seeks a diplomatic solution, it must abandon the language of threats and sanctions,” an unnamed Iranian official said, adding that such threats “are …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican authorities said they seized more than 3 million liters (792,516 gallons) of illegally stored fuel at a property in the country’s southeast state of Tabasco, the latest in a string of major fuel-related seizures across the country. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The seizure on Thursday is part of Mexico’s ongoing battle against …
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By Francois Murphy and John Irish VIENNA (Reuters) -Western powers are preparing to push the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board at its next quarterly meeting to declare Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations for the first time in almost 20 years, a move bound to enrage Tehran, diplomats said. The step is likely to further …
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