Ukraine braces for 'heavy battles' as Putin says Russia carving out Kharkiv buffer zone
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's top commander warned on Friday of "heavy battles" looming on the war's new front in the northeastern Kharkiv region as Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was carving out a "buffer zone" in the area. Russian forc...
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Iran arrests over 260 including three Europeans at 'Satanist' meeting, Tasnim says
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian security forces have arrested more than 260 people, including three European nationals, at a "Satanist" gathering west of the capital Tehran, the semi-official new agency Tasnim reported on Friday. The raid follows a natio...
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Russian guided bombs kill two, injure 13 in Ukraine's Kharkiv
(Reuters) - Russian guided bombs killed at least two people and injured 13 others in the northeastern Ukraine's city of Kharkiv on Friday, local officials said. It was not immediately clear what they had been targeting but the regional governor sai...
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Zelenskiy signs law allowing some convicts to serve in Ukraine's army
(Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a law allowing some categories of convicts to serve in the army, parliament's database showed on Friday. A separate law enhancing fines for those not abiding by army mobilization rules was ...
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Russia's Novorossiisk oil infrastructure hit by drone attack early on Friday, sources say
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A drone attack on Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiisk early on Friday hit the Importpischeprom oil products terminal and Sheskharis oil harbour, sources said and video shared on social media showed. The port was shut soon aft...
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Turkey opposition chief cool to constitution talks with Erdogan
By Huseyin Hayatsever and Birsen Altayli ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's main opposition leader, boosted by sweeping local election gains in March, said he is "far off" opening talks with Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party over a new constitution since the ...
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Ukraine stages long-range attacks on targets in Crimea and southern Russia, source says
(Reuters) - Ukraine attacked a power substation in Russian-occupied Crimea, an oil depot and railway station in Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and an oil refinery in the port town of Tuapse overnight, a Kyiv intelligence source told Reute...
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German defence industry says it will need government help to reduce dependence on China
By Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) - German arms producers will need help from the government if they are to reduce their dependency on Chinese materials and still be able to compete with U.S. companies, Germany's defence industry association said....
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Putin queries political legitimacy of Ukrainian President Zelenskiy in absence of elections
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin queried the political legitimacy of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday when asked about the absence of plans to hold a presidential election in Ukraine at the moment. Martial law im...
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Fierce fighting in northern Gaza as Israel defends itself at World Court
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli forces battled Hamas fighters in the narrow alleyways of Jabalia in northern Gaza on Friday in some of the fiercest engagements since they returned to the area a week ago, while in the south militants ...
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Putin says Russia is carving out a buffer zone in Ukraine's Kharkiv region
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russian forces advancing in Ukraine's Kharkiv region were creating a "buffer zone" to protect Russian border regions, but said capturing the city of Kharkiv was not part of Russia's cu...
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Vatican urges caution over weeping Madonnas and other supposed apparitions
By Alvise Armellini VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican issued new guidelines on Friday recommending a cautious approach to supposed supernatural events such as weeping Madonnas and blood-dripping crucifixes that have for centuries whipped up the ...
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Dominican Republic`s Abinader looks set for first-round election win
By Dave Sherwood (Reuters) - The Dominican Republic's Luis Abinader, an anti-corruption crusader who helped catapult the island nation's economy from pandemic lows to one of the fastest growing in Latin America, looks set for a first round victory ...
22h ago
Uprooted by Brazil floods, foreign refugees 'start all over again'
By Lisandra Paraguassu PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Haitians and Venezuelans who found refuge in southern Brazil after escaping hunger, violence and natural disasters are being forced once more to rebuild lives now wrecked ...
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Alleged Russian agent loses appeal over removal of UK citizenship
LONDON (Reuters) - An Afghan-born man, whose British citizenship was removed after he was accused of being a Russian intelligence agent, lost his appeal on Friday to restore his citizenship at a London tribunal. The man, who says he worked for Brit...
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UK expands sanctions list for North Korea and Russia
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has added three new designations to its North Korea sanctions list, relating to Pyongyang's military programmes, and one to its Russia sanctions regime, an update to the government's website showed on Friday. The governme...
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Russia says US 'playing with fire' in 'indirect war' with Moscow
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A top Russian diplomat said on Friday the United States had long since entered into a state of indirect war with Moscow and was playing with fire over Ukraine by behaving in such a way that the situation could spin out of control...
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Ghana parliament recalled for urgent business after LGBT row
By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's parliament, which has been adjourned since March following a row between the speaker and the president over an anti-LGBT bill, will reconvene on Friday to discuss approval of ministerial appoin...
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Putin calls U.S. tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles 'unfair competition'
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday during a visit to China that U.S. tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles were an example of unfair competition. "Unfortunately, the way the world works today, sometimes situation...
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Russia and China to sign Power of Siberia-2 gas pipeline contract 'in near future', says Novak
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and China expect to a sign a contract "in the near future" on the Power of Siberia-2 gas pipeline, which will carry Russian gas to China, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak was cited as saying by Interfax late o...
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Israel tells World Court South Africa case makes a mockery of genocide
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Israel on Friday defended the military necessity of its Gaza offensive at the International Court of Justice after South Africa asked judges to order it to halt operations in Rafah and completely withdraw from the Palestinian ...
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Mongolian climber dies in season's first Everest fatality
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Sherpas recovered the body of a Mongolian climber from Mount Everest and were looking for another mountaineer missing since the weekend, officials said on Friday. It marked the first confirmed death on Everest ...
May 17, 2024
Aid trucks begin moving ashore via Gaza pier, US says
DUBAI (Reuters) - The U.S. Central Command said on Friday that trucks carrying humanitarian assistance began moving ashore via a temporary pier in Gaza at 9 a.m. local time (0600 GMT). No U.S. troops went ashore in Gaza, it added. "This is an ongoi...
May 17, 2024
German minister: Ukraine needs long-range weapons to defend Kharkiv
STRASBOURG (Reuters) - Ukraine needs more long-range weapons to fight off Russian advances in the northern Kharkiv region where the situation around the country's second-largest city remains "highly dramatic", Germany's foreign minister said on Fri...
May 17, 2024
Belgium's Ghent university severs ties with three Israeli institutions
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's University of Ghent (UGent) is severing ties with three Israeli educational or research institutions which it says no longer align with UGent's human rights policy, its rector said. Pro-Palestinian protesters in Ghent...
May 17, 2024