Nov 7 (Reuters) – Russia said its forces carried out a massive overnight strike on what it described as targets in Ukraine’s military-industrial sector and energy and transport infrastructure in Kyiv and the surrounding region. In Kyiv, Russia’s defence ministry said strikes hit the Northern Bridge — which it said was being used to transport…
LONDON, Nov 6 (Reuters) – Ten governments including the United States, Britain, Germany and France issued a statement on Friday condemning the sentencing of Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong to 10 years in jail. • Wong, who has been behind bars since 2020, was on Thursday sentenced to a further 10 years in jail…
Meanwhile, Iran’s foreign minister held discussions with his Egyptian counterpart, part of an ongoing flurry of diplomacy as Iran’s neighbors in the region push for a negotiated settlement rather than a new round of war. Trump discusses de-escalation efforts with Qatar’s emir The telephone call between Trump and Qatar’s Emir Sheik Tamim bin Hamad al…
LONDON (AP) — World leaders who have sparred with the “America first” President Donald Trump greeted the rout of his Republican Party in the U.S. midterm elections with a measure of relief on Wednesday, allowing themselves to hope for a less combative U.S. foreign policy. But that hope was seasoned with expectation that American voters’…
Nov 4 (Reuters) – Governments and politicians around the world reacted to the Democrats winning the US midterm elections, a result that could have major implications for global trade, security and energy prices. Here is a selection of the reactions: SPANISH PRIME MINISTER PEDRO SANCHEZ ON X “Yesterday, the American people voted against policies that…
Nov 3 (Reuters) – A string of bomb threats has disrupted passenger flights across Europe in recent days, forcing diversions, emergency landings and security sweeps, though no explosives have so far been found. Here is a list of flights affected by bomb threats in recent days. Two Ryanair flights were searched at Rome’s Fiumicino airport…
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The chief of a top trans-Atlantic security grouping visited Belarus on Tuesday for the first time in seven years as the country’s authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has sought to normalize ties with the West. Feridun Sinirlioglu, the secretary-general of the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, visited Belarus to…
HULL, England, Nov 2 (Reuters) – A British adventurer who has been walking around the world for almost three decades is due to finish his trek on Monday, ending a 31,000-mile journey at the house where he grew up. Karl Bushby has hacked through jungles in Central America, crossed the ice between Alaska and Russia…
Evacuees wrapped in blue and yellow Ukrainian flags stepped off buses at the Ukrainian-Belarusian border where they were reunited with family members. Volunteers with hand-drawn welcome signs handed out coffee to the weary travelers, who had traveled by bus and plane through Russia and Belarus. Residents of nearby villages lined the highway to greet the…
KYIV, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Four planes carrying residents evacuated from the Russian-controlled Ukrainian town of Oleshky landed in Belarus on Saturday, the Belarusian Belta state news agency and a senior Ukrainian official said. Hundreds of starving and exhausted residents left the town of Oleshky on Friday during a US-backed local ceasefire, the first of…