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MADRID, May 10 (Reuters) – British paratroopers have dropped onto Britain’s most remote overseas territory, Tristan da Cunha, along with medics and medical supplies, after a case of suspected hantavirus was confirmed there. A team of six paratroopers and two military clinicians from 16 Air Assault Brigade jumped from an RAF A400M transport aircraft that flew 6,788 km (4,218 miles) from RAF Brize Norton air base in Oxfordshire to Ascension […]

Russia accused Kyiv of breaking a U.S.-brokered ceasefire on Sunday, while Ukrainian officials said that one person had been killed and more injured by Russian drone and artillery strikes in the past 24 hours. Two people were injured by Ukrainian shelling in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Kherson region, the area’s Moscow-installed leader Vladimir Saldo said. Separately, Russia’s Ministry of Defense accused Kyiv of committing more than 1,000 ceasefire violations, […]

DUBAI, May 10 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates’ air defences dealt with two drones coming from Iran on Sunday, the Defence Ministry said, the latest in renewed attacks on the oil-rich Gulf country. The UAE has reported being attacked in the past days by Iran after four weeks of relative calm since a ceasefire in the Iran war was announced by the United States. Iran has denied carrying out […]

DUBAI, May 10 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates’ air defences dealt with two drones coming from Iran on Sunday, the Defence Ministry said, the latest in renewed attacks on the oil-rich Gulf country. The UAE has reported being attacked in the past days by Iran after four weeks of relative calm since a ceasefire in the Iran war was announced by the United States. Iran has denied carrying out […]

DUBAI, May 10 (Reuters) – Iran’s Oil Terminals Company denied reports of an oil leak near Kharg Island on Sunday, according to state media, after satellite imagery this week appeared to show a large slick west of the country’s main oil export hub in the Gulf. The company’s chief executive said inspections had found no evidence of leaks from storage tanks, pipelines, loading facilities or tankers operating near the island. […]

DUBAI, May 10 (Reuters) – Iran’s Oil Terminals Company denied reports of an oil leak near Kharg Island on Sunday, according to state media, after satellite imagery this week appeared to show a large slick west of the country’s main oil export hub in the Gulf. The company’s chief executive said inspections had found no evidence of leaks from storage tanks, pipelines, loading facilities or tankers operating near the island. […]

MOSCOW, May 10 (Reuters) – Russia accused Armenia on Sunday of providing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy with “a platform for anti-Russian remarks”, in a further sign of a chill in relations between traditional allies Moscow and Yerevan. On a visit to Yerevan last week, Zelenskiy said Russia feared “drones may buzz over Red Square” in Moscow during the annual parade on May 9 to commemorate the Soviet Union’s victory over […]

DUBAI, May 10 (Reuters) – Kuwait’s army said it had detected and dealt with several hostile drones in the country’s airspace at dawn on Sunday, the latest incident following similar cross‑border drone activity linked to the Iran conflict. On April 25, Kuwait’s army said two drones launched from ​Iraq had targeted ​two northern border posts, causing ​damage. Its air defences also dealt with a wave of Iranian drones on April […]

BERLIN, May 10 (Reuters) – Germany dismissed on Sunday a suggestion from Russian President Vladimir Putin that former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder could coordinate talks with the European Union to secure a peace deal in Ukraine. European Council President Antonio ​Costa said recently ⁠he believed there was “potential” for the EU to negotiate with Russia, and to discuss the future of the security architecture of Europe. Putin said that if such […]