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Exclusive-Syria, Kurdish forces race to save integration deal ahead of deadline
AMMAN/RIYADH/BEIRUT/ANKARA, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Syrian, Kurdish and U.S. officials are scrambling ahead of a year-end deadline to show some progress in a stalled deal to merge Kurdish forces with […]
Belarus has deployed Russia’s Oreshnik missile, Lukashenko says
MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Belarus has deployed Russia’s new Oreshnik intermediate-range hypersonic missile system, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday. Read full story Date: 19 December, 2025 12:00 am […]
Russia jails man for 22 years for blowing up trains in Siberia at Ukraine’s behest
MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) – A Belarusian man accused by Russia’s FSB security service of blowing up two trains in Siberia on the orders of Ukraine’s intelligence services was jailed […]
Putin’s spymaster spoke by phone with new MI6 chief, TASS reports
MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign intelligence director, Sergei Naryshkin, said that he had recently spoken by telephone to the chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service […]
Belgian farmers in anti-trade protest clash with police
BRUSSELS, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Belgian police fired tear gas and water cannon on Thursday as a demonstration by farmers against an EU-Mercosur free trade agreement turned violent, with some […]
EU court says Denmark’s ethnic-based ‘ghetto law’ may be discriminatory
COPENHAGEN, Dec 18 (Reuters) – The EU’s top court ruled on Thursday that Denmark’s 2018 “ghetto law,” which relocates residents from minority-heavy areas, could amount to ethnic discrimination, dealing a […]
Russia says commission on Ukraine war damages has no legal force for Moscow
MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that an International Claims Commission for Ukraine launched by some European powers had no legal force for Russia and […]
Taiwan rattled by 5.1 magnitude quake, no immediate reports of damage
TAIPEI, Dec 18 (Reuters) – A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck 18 km (11 miles) off eastern Taiwan’s Hualien city on Thursday, the island’s weather administration said, with no immediate reports […]
Migrants stuck in Mauritania after EU border pact brings crackdown
NOUAKCHOTT, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Moktar Diallo left Mali in 2015, dreaming of reaching Europe by boat from Mauritania to Spain’s Canary Islands. Read full story Date: 18 December, 2025 […]
Pope Leo decries leaders who invoke religion for violence and nationalism
VATICAN CITY, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Pope Leo on Thursday decried political leaders who invoke religious beliefs to justify conflicts or nationalist policies, calling that a form of blasphemy, or […]