(This Jan. 20 story has been corrected to say Brandenburg, not Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in paragraph 3) By Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) – German right-wing conservative group Werteunion (Values ​​Union) said on Saturday it had decided to found a new political party, adding to a fragmentation of the previously stable spectrum of parties in the country. …
(Reuters) – Russia’s Novatek said on Sunday that work at a terminal it controls on the Baltic Sea had been suspended after a fire it said was the result of “external influence.” A fire broke out at the terminal belonging to Novatek, Russia’s largest liquefied natural gas producer, regional officials said on Sunday, amid reports …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Ministry of Defence said on Sunday it would spend 405 million pounds ($514 million) to upgrade a missile system now being used by the Royal Navy to shoot down hostile drones over the Red Sea. The Sea Viper Air Defence system will be upgraded with missiles featuring a new warhead and software enabling …
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By Samia Nakhoul and Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) – Commanders from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group are on the ground in Yemen helping to direct and oversee Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, four regional and two Iranian sources told Reuters. Iran – which has armed, trained and funded the …
By Phil Stewart and Timour Azhari WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Missile attacks in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen on Saturday threw into sharp focus the increasing risk of the war in Gaza triggering a wider regional conflict pitting Iran and its allies against Israel and the United States. Iran said five of its Revolutionary Guards were killed …
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By Nick Starkov KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that he expected a number of new Western defence packages for Ukraine to be signed this and next month. “We are preparing new agreements with partners – strong bilateral agreements,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. “January and February should bring corresponding …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said he would use his budget statement in March – possibly his last before a national election expected this year – to boost economic growth and he said tax cuts were part of his plans. “My priority in the upcoming Spring Budget will be to build on …
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(Reuters) -Manchester United appointed Omar Berrada as its new chief executive officer, the club said in a statement on Saturday. Berrada’s start date will be confirmed in due course, while Patrick Stewart will continue as interim CEO. “The Club is determined to put football and performance on the pitch back at the heart of everything …
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – A four-man crew including Turkey’s first astronaut arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) early on Saturday for a two-week stay in the latest such mission arranged entirely at commercial expense by Texas-based startup company Axiom Space. The rendezvous came about 37 hours after the Axiom quartet’s Thursday evening liftoff …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The wife of a Russian soldier delivered an emotional appeal for his return from Ukraine on Saturday at the election headquarters of President Vladimir Putin, a defiant gesture in a country where open criticism of the war is banned. “Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has issued a decree that my husband has to be …
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