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HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) sent strong messages of sustained support for Ukraine on Sunday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denied Russia’s claims to have finally taken the eastern city of Bakhmut. UKRAINE * Zelenskiy sought support for Kyiv’s “peace formula” to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, telling G7 leaders at the summit in the Japanese city of Hiroshima it was “an obvious expression of […]

By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) – The founder of Georgia’s national airline Georgian Airways has banned the country’s president from using its services after she said she would boycott the airline over its resumption of flights to Russia, Russia’s TASS news agency reported on Sunday. Russia announced this month it was lifting a four-year old ban on direct flights with Georgia and removing a decades-old visa requirement for Georgians travelling […]

By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) – The founder of Georgia’s national airline Georgian Airways has banned the country’s president from using its services after she said she would boycott the airline over its resumption of flights to Russia, Russia’s TASS news agency reported on Sunday. Russia announced this month it was lifting a four-year old ban on direct flights with Georgia and removing a decades-old visa requirement for Georgians travelling […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s hard-right Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited a site in Jerusalem holy to both Muslims and Jews on Sunday and declared Israel was “in charge”, drawing condemnation from Palestinians after months of escalating tension and violence. The comments, during an early morning visit to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, sacred to both Muslims and Jews, who know it as Temple Mount, came days after groups of Jewish youths […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s intelligence minister said a “terrorist” group linked to Israel was arrested on the western borders of Iran on Sunday, according to the semi-official Nour News agency. “A terrorist group associated with the Zionist regime which entered the country from the western borders was arrested,” said Esmail Khatib. The statement comes amid heightening tensions between Iran and its arch-enemy Israel over Tehran’s nuclear programme. (Reporting by Dubai […]

By Katya Golubkova HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – China represents the world’s greatest challenge to security and prosperity, but other leading economies should not seek to fully decouple from it, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday after a summit of the Group of Seven (G7) nations. “China poses the biggest challenge of our age to global security and prosperity. They are increasingly authoritarian at home and assertive abroad,” Sunak […]

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Andrea Shalal HIROSHIMA, Japan/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday he plans to speak with top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy on Sunday as part of increasingly last-minute talks over raising the federal $31.4 trillion debt ceiling. Biden, traveling in Japan for the Group of Seven (G7) summit, sought the call after his negotiating team briefed him on the status of talks that broke up […]

(Reuters) – Russia claimed on Saturday to have fully captured the smashed eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which would mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15-month war. The assault on the largely levelled city was led by troops from the Wagner Group of mercenaries, whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said earlier in the day that his troops had finally pushed the Ukrainians out of the last […]

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Sunday that it was still fighting for control of the eastern city of Bakhmut, after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had said earlier that the city remained “only in our hearts.” Asked before a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Japan if the city was still in Ukraine’s hands after the Russians said they had seized it in its entirety, Zelenskiy told reporters, “I think […]