MOSCOW (Reuters) – Western countries will run “colossal risks” if they supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, TASS news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko as saying on Saturday. Grushko was responding to a question about the implications of providing the jets, which Ukraine has been requesting from NATO countries. It has not…
By John Irish and Sakura Murakami HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy held talks with India’s Narendra Modi on Saturday and was due to meet other “Global South” leaders at a Group of Seven (G7) summit aimed at broadening support for his country in its war against Russia. The three-day G7 meeting in the Japanese…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Martin Amis, a British writer of dark comedic novels, has died at the age of 73, his publisher said Saturday on Twitter. Penguin Books said Amis “leaves a towering legacy and an indelible mark on the British cultural landscape, and will be missed enormously.” Amis died Friday at his home in Lake Worth,…
By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) – Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday his Wagner fighters had completed the capture of Bakhmut, but Ukraine rejected the claim and said fighting was still going on. Prigozhin made the claim in a video in which he appeared in combat fatigues in front of a line of fighters…
BRIGHTON, England (Reuters) – Thousands of Britons took to the sea and rivers on Saturday to demand an end to sewage pollution by water companies, highlighting a topic that is likely to be an issue at the next general election. A national “paddle-out” at 12 locations across the United Kingdom, including Brighton in the south,…
(Reuters) -Three people died when their light aircraft crashed on Saturday morning in Switzerland’s Ponts-de-Martel area close to the French border, the Swiss police said. The crash occurred around 10:20 in the morning local time (0820 GMT) in a forest near the village of La Combe Dernier in the canton of Neuchâtel, the local police…
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met on Saturday at the Group of Seven nations summit seeking to turn the page after a French minister accused Rome of mishandling an influx of migrants. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said in early May that Meloni’s right-wing government had been…
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Rights groups and the top U.S. justice envoy on Saturday criticised a meeting between a leading United Nations official for children and Russia’s ombudsman for children’s rights, who is wanted by the world’s permanent war crimes court. An arrest warrant was issued in March by the International Criminal Court for Maria Lvova-Belova,…
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday that his Wagner fighters had completed the capture of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut after months of intense fighting, a claim denied by Ukraine. Here is a look at the significance for both sides of the largely ruined city at the…
MILAN (Reuters) – Telecom Italia (TIM) is being urged by some directors to hold an extraordinary board meeting to name a candidate sponsored by top investor Vivendi to fill a vacant director seat at the former phone monopoly, two sources said on Saturday. Vivendi is currently at loggerheads with TIM’s management over its plans to…
