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Russia still ready to provide safe passage from Azovstal, Putin tells Israel’s Bennett
(Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in a phone call on Thursday that Russia was still ready to provide safe passage for civilians from the…
France will increase financial aid to Ukraine by $300 million, Macron tells donor conference
PARIS (Reuters) - France will increase its overall financial aid to Ukraine this year to $2 billion from 1.7 billion, President Emmanuel Macron said in a video address to an…
Russia-Ukraine War- A Lost Opportunity for Turkey’s Westward Outreach
By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Jonathan Spicer ANKARA (Reuters) - Before travelling to Moscow last week, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stopped over in Ankara to meet Tayyip Erdogan and praise the…
By PTI and Chanakya Forum
Australia wants calm in ties with Solomon Islands after ‘invasion’ claim
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will respond calmly to the Solomon Islands after it signed a security pact with China, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, dismissing a furious response by the…
French energy minister expects EU consensus on Russian oil ban by end of week
(Reuters) -The French environment and energy minister, Barbara Pompili, on Thursday said she was confident European Union member states will reach a consensus on how to end Russian oil imports…
Biden to talk with G7 leaders this week about further sanctions on Russia
By Jeff Mason and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he would speak with other leaders from the Group of Seven advanced economies this week…
Beijing steps up COVID curbs as virus spreads in China
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Beijing shut scores of metro stations and bus routes and extended COVID-19 curbs on many public venues on Wednesday, focusing efforts to avoid the fate of Shanghai,…
N.Korea fires ballistic missile as South gets ready for new president
By Soo-hyang Choi and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the sea off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korea and Japan said, about a…
Pope wants to visit Moscow to meet Putin over Ukraine – paper
By Philip Pullella and Francesca Piscioneri VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis said in an interview published on Tuesday that he asked for a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir…
India releases 2020 death data ahead of WHO COVID mortality study it objects
By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India registered about 475,000 more total deaths in 2020 than the previous year, government data released months ahead of schedule on Tuesday…
Russian strikes pound Ukraine on eve of new EU sanctions
By Joseph Campbell and Alessandra Prentice ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russian forces pounded targets in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, unleashing rockets on a steel plant that is Ukraine's last redoubt in…
Ukraine’s ‘finest hour’: UK’s Johnson invokes Churchill as he predicts Russia will lose
By Kylie MacLellan and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Ukraine on Tuesday he believed it would defeat Russia and expose the "gigantic error" of the…
