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Belgium announces border checks in migration clampdown
By Charlotte Van Campenhout BRUSSELS -Belgium will introduce border checks on people coming into the country to clamp down on illegal migration, the government said, in another limit on free movement ...
Thomson Reuters Jun 20, 2025
Kremlin declines to predict when Putin and Trump may meet face-to-face
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Friday it could not predict whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would meet U.S. President Donald Trump this year given how turbulent the world...
Thomson Reuters Jun 20, 2025
Russia says Middle East is plunging into 'abyss'
By Guy Faulconbridge and Dmitry Antonov ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -The Kremlin warned on Friday that the Middle East was plunging into "an abyss of instability and war" and said Moscow was worri...
Thomson Reuters Jun 20, 2025
Collapse at coltan mine in eastern Congo kills 12, sources say
KINSHASA (Reuters) -A collapse at a coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province has killed at least 12 people, a mining source and a civil society source said on Friday. ...
Thomson Reuters Jun 20, 2025
Heineken loses operational control of facilities in Congo's war-hit east
(Reuters) -Heineken has lost operational control and withdrawn its staff from its facilities in conflict-affected areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Dutch brewer said on Friday. The be...
Thomson Reuters Jun 20, 2025
Gaza faces a man-made drought as water systems collapse, UNICEF says
GENEVA (Reuters) -Gaza is facing a man-made drought as its water systems collapse, the United Nations' children agency said on Friday. "Children will begin to die of thirst ... Just 40% of drinking wa...
Thomson Reuters Jun 20, 2025
Russia sentences activist who helped Ukrainians flee war to 22 years in prison
LONDON (Reuters) -A Russian activist who helped collect humanitarian aid for Ukraine and evacuate Ukrainians from the war zone was sentenced on Friday to 22 years in prison by a Moscow military court,...
Thomson Reuters Jun 20, 2025
Russia says it expects agreement next week on date for next peace talks with Ukraine
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) -Russia expects to agree with Ukraine next week on a date for a third round of peace talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. Kremlin aide Vladimir Medins...
Thomson Reuters Jun 20, 2025
Norway to meet 5% NATO goal on defence, security spending, prime minister says
OSLO (Reuters) -Norway plans to raise its defence spending to 3.5% of the country's GDP, and also aims to use an additional 1.5% for broader security related purposes, its prime minister said on Frida...
Thomson Reuters Jun 20, 2025
Pro-Palestinian activists say they damaged planes at UK military base
LONDON (Reuters) -Pro-Palestinian activists in Britain said they had broken into a Royal Air Force base in central England on Friday and damaged two military aircraft used for refuelling and transport...
Thomson Reuters Jun 20, 2025

