By Andrea Shalal ATLANTA, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski on Friday called for a rapid ceasefire in the Black Sea that would allow safe passage for grain shipments from both Ukraine and Russia and said Moscow must end its war against Ukraine before being allowed to resum
By Dominique Vidalon and Noemie Olive PARIS, Oct 31 (Reuters) – France will deploy a 70,000-strong police presence to contain a widely expected bout of fresh unrest on Saturday in the latest nationwide protests driven by anger over living costs, public services and President Emmanuel Macron’s govern
Oct 30 (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was cited as saying on Friday that Russia’s position on the Ukraine conflict was unchanged and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s comments on maintaining strikes on Russian targets were unhelpful in preparing for new talks. Lavrov, add
Oct 30 (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Friday that inviting Poland to attend G20 meetings was counter-productive and broke with diplomatic practice of seeking consensus at such gatherings. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told reporters in Atlanta
ATLANTA, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in Atlanta on Friday and demanded the release of a Japanese national detained in Russia’s Sakhalin region. The rare high-level meeting between the two
SEOUL, Oct 31 (Reuters) – North Korea denounced a joint statement by a group of countries monitoring sanctions enforcement against Pyongyang as a “wanton violation of its sovereignty” born out of hostility by the US and the West, KCNA state news agency reported on Saturday. A statement issued this w
CAIRO, Oct 30 (Reuters) – The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Friday it had intercepted and destroyed a drone launched by Yemen’s Houthis over Saudi Arabia’s Medina region, but the Iran-aligned group denied carrying out any attack towards the kingdom. Medina is home to one of Islam’s h
Oct 30 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday he would be holding “important” talks in Turkey as part of diplomatic efforts after more than 4-1/2 years of war with Russia. The Ukrainian president, speaking in his nightly video address, indicated discussions were linked to
By Antoni Slodkowski UNITED NATIONS, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Russia and the United States vetoed rival resolutions on Western Sahara at the Security Council on Friday, leaving the UN peacekeeping mission there without a renewed mandate just a day before it expires. The unusual showdown threatens the futu
BRASILIA, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Brazil called in Argentina’s highest diplomat in Brasilia to explain the Argentine government’s role in the departure of Senator Flavio Bolsonaro to the US after losing the presidential election, two sources in the Brazilian government said on Friday, as Argentina denied
By Mike Stone Oct 30 (Reuters) – The US State Department said on Friday it had approved the sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 missiles to Ukraine for an estimated $2.1 billion, in what would be one of the most significant steps to supply defensive weapons to Kyiv since the start of the second Trump administ
Oct 30 (Reuters) – The United States ordered non-emergency government employees and their family members to leave Saudi Arabia effective October 23 due to safety risks, the US embassy in Riyadh said on Friday, citing Houthi attacks on civilian airports and other critical infrastructure. US governmen
WARSAW, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Polish President Karol Nawrocki turned back his plane en route to Senegal on Friday after police entered the premises of Poland’s top court and its president was suspended. “At a moment like this, the President must be in Poland. I am cutting short my flight to Senegal. I
By Rick Noack RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s military is “cautiously optimistic” about its mediation between Iran and the United States, its spokesman said on Friday in his first interview since a high-level delegation visited Tehran this week. Army chief Field Marshal Asim Muni
Oct 30 (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people, mostly students and workers, took to the streets across Italy on Friday to demand higher wages and stronger public services, protest against the rising cost of living and oppose increased military spending. Grassroots union Unione Sindacale di Base cal
BRASILIA, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will attend the COP31 climate summit in Antalya, Turkey, the Brazilian presidency said on Friday. The confirmation came shortly after Lula was re-elected president of Brazil, last Sunday. Lula is scheduled to arrive in Antaly
BEIJING, Oct 30 (Reuters) – China’s first carrier-based stealth reconnaissance and strike drone, the GJ-21, recently completed its first takeoff and landing on the Sichuan, the country’s first Type 076 amphibious assault ship, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday. The trial underscores Beijin
ATLANTA, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Foreign ministers from the G20 skipped a traditional group photo ahead of their meeting in Atlanta on Friday after European representatives objected to the presence of Russia. A US official said the State Department had taken the family photo off the official agenda becau
By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Residents of the Russian-held town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine began evacuating on Friday as part of a joint relief operation by the two sides, the first of its kind in four years and eight months of war. Many questions have been asked about the humanit
JERUSALEM, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Israel demolished on Friday the homes of the assailants who killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron last week, part of an ongoing operation that has forcibly displaced over 3,000 Palestinians. After the October 23 attack, in
By Mireia Merino MADRID, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Spanish police said on Friday they had arrested the suspected founder and main promoter of the local “Blocus” chapter, a group accused of using social media and online channels to exploit student protests and demonstrations as a cover for looting and viole
By Valentini Anagnostopoulou ATHENS, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Dockworkers went on strike across Europe and beyond on Friday, disrupting shipping and ferries as they protested against the use of their ports for arms shipments and the number of seafarers killed in wars from the Gulf to the Black Sea. Strike
KYIV, Oct 30 (Reuters) – The number of residents planning to evacuate the Russian-occupied southern Ukrainian town of Oleshky for Ukrainian-held territory is still being determined, Kyiv’s prime minister said on Friday. In a statement, Sergiy Koretskyi retracted a remark he made to parliament earlie
NAIROBI, Oct 30 (Reuters) – At least 15 people, many of them children, died in a series of drone strikes that hit a camp for displaced civilians in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, two sources involved in a rescue operation said on Friday. It was not clear why the camp was targeted or who was behind the at
By Emma Farge GENEVA, Oct 30 (Reuters) – The top Swiss court on Friday confirmed a guilty verdict against a Liberian warlord, upholding his 20 year sentence in the country’s first ever war crimes trial. Alieu Kosiah, who fought in the 1990s against then-president Charles Taylor’s army during Liberia
By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Nigerian troops, backed by air support, repelled attacks by Islamist fighters on military positions in the northeastern Borno and Yobe states, killing 48 insurgents, the military said on Friday. Attacks by Islamist groups Boko Haram and its spl
By Yoruk Bahceli LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Swedish climate academic Andreas Malm said on Friday he had been denied entry to Britain, where he was due to speak alongside the co-founder of Palestine Action, a group banned as a terrorist organisation. Malm, an academic at Sweden’s Lund University, has
MADRID, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Two men were found dead aboard a migrant boat that reached Spain’s Canary Islands early on Friday after departing from Gambia, and a baby was airlifted to hospital in a critical condition, Spanish rescue services said. The vessel, carrying 113 people, was located about 37
By Xinghui Kok and Stanley Widianto SINGAPORE, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Indonesia’s swipes at its neighbours are set to last as its embattled government tries to blunt criticism of its handling of welfare programmes, market regulation and persistent wildfires that have choked the region in haze. Singapore
HELSINKI, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Finnish police said on Friday they have launched a pre-trial investigation and arrested nine people on suspicion that workers who came from China to work at a battery factory in the Nordic country were victims of human trafficking. • Police said in a statement they also
