Ukraine’s Zelenskiy appeals for more Western weapons after Russia attack

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Russian attacks on civilian targets could be stopped only if Ukraine’s Western partners supplied necessary weapons. “What is needed for this? Those weapons which are in the depots of our partners and which our soldiers are waiting for so much,” Zelenskiy said in his …

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Retired general, ex-premier to square off in Czech presidential runoff

By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE (Reuters) – Retired general Petr Pavel scored a narrow win over billionaire ex-premier Andrej Babis in the first round of the Czech presidential election on Saturday, securing a solid base for a runoff in two weeks, nearly complete results showed. The post does not carry executive authority but has significant powers …

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Romanian prosecutors take away luxury cars seized in Andrew Tate case

VOLUNTARI, Romania (Reuters) – Romanian authorities started on Saturday to take away luxury cars from a property close to the capital as part of a criminal inquiry into alleged human trafficking that led to the arrest of divisive internet personality Andrew Tate. Romanian anti-organised crime prosecutors detained Tate, his brother Tristan and two Romanian female …

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Bolsonaro’s ex-justice minister Torres arrested in Brazilian capital

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s former Justice Minister Anderson Torres, who was in charge of public security in Brasilia during the invasion of government buildings a week ago, was arrested in Brasilia on Saturday on suspicion of “omission” and “connivance”. Torres was arrested after returning to Brazil on Saturday. He had been on vacation in Florida, …

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Russian ex-President Medvedev says Japanese PM should disembowel himself

(Reuters) – Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday of shameful subservience to the United States and suggested he should ritually disembowel himself. It was the latest in a long line of shocking and provocative statements from Medvedev, who was once seen as a Western-leaning reformer but has reinvented …

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Kishida says G7 should show strong will on Russia’s Ukraine invasion

By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Saturday that the G7 summit in Hiroshima in May should demonstrate a strong will to uphold international order and rule of law after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Speaking at a news conference in Washington a day after a summit with …

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