MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia held a training exercise on Tuesday to simulate a “massive nuclear strike” in response to a first strike by an enemy, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov said. President Vladimir Putin kicked off the exercise at a critical point in the Ukraine war. The drill, which Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said was a …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hezbollah’s deputy secretary general Sheikh Naim Qassem, elected head of the Lebanese armed group on Tuesday, has been a senior figure in the Iran-backed movement for more than 30 years. Speaking in front of curtains from an undisclosed location on Oct. 8, Qassem said the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel was a war …
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By Ed White WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – Premier Scott Moe’s right-of-center Saskatchewan Party is extending its hold on power in the western Canadian province after winning a small majority in Monday’s election, preliminary results showed on Tuesday. The party, which won 32 seats, has held power in Saskatchewan since 2007. The opposition New Democratic Party …
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(Reuters) – Elections in Georgia and Moldova have shown the European Union just how tough a task it faces in trying to expand to countries that Moscow considers in its sphere of influence. The EU has been making a renewed push to bring in new members since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, saying the …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov promised on Tuesday to take revenge for a drone attack that caused a fire at a military training academy in his south Russian region. Ukraine has frequently struck Russia with drones in the course of the war, but Tuesday’s attack appeared to be the first against Chechnya. There …
DOHA (Reuters) – Qatar will work with U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration “until the last minute” before the Presidential election to reach a Gaza ceasefire deal, the Qatari foreign ministry said on Tuesday. “We don’t foresee any negative result of the elections on the mediation process itself. We believe that we are dealing with institutions, …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Tuesday rejected U.S. claims that Russian and Chinese-linked influence actors and the Cuban government had been amplifying misinformation following two U.S. hurricanes, saying that the West blamed Moscow for everything. A U.S. official said Russian hurricane-related misinformation on Telegram included an Oct. 10 image shared by state-owned news agency …
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KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he had agreed with South Korea’s president to step up contacts between their nations at all levels to develop countermeasures and a strategy to respond to North Korea’s involvement in the war in Ukraine. Zelenskiy, in a readout of a phone call with President Yoon Suk …
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By Akash Sriram (Reuters) – Aerospace startup Sceye has partnered with NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey to deploy climate management tools to monitor wildfires and storms from the edge of space, the company and the government agencies exclusively told Reuters on Tuesday. Sceye’s High Altitude Platform System (HAPS), powered by solar energy, looks like …
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By Andrea Shalal (Reuters) – Russian and Chinese-linked influence actors and the Cuban government have been amplifying misinformation following two deadly U.S. hurricanes, including false claims that the U.S. was denying disaster relief claims, a U.S. official said on Monday. The U.S. official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, shared the assessment following a …
